Finally! Independent Testing Of Rossi's E-Cat Cold Fusion Device. Success?

[ramset]

Excited ??
It would be a brand new unexplored field, surely of interest ?


Regarding the test Lab and their protocol ...Perhaps their engineers decided that submerging a high temp lithium solution into a Vat of water might not be the best course of action     , maybe their insurance underwriters got involved and they had to come up with an alternate solution  [it was after all a 32 day run ??


Perhaps the Test Lab should be given the benefit of the doubt ,They supplied all the test equipment.   TEST Labs as a rule Dot the I's and cross the T's when it comes to "Their" equipment and its appropriate use in Measurement .

Today's Lab level thermal imaging Equipment Is Not like last years or even last weeks ..
Sensitivity improvements are daily in this field  , which is probably self evident to those who calibrate these Imagers at the scientific/Lab level for industry and laboratories.


Chet

[MarkE]

@mark dansie too many heat losses in a self-loop,rather go with better economics-practicality.with a cop over ten then it might be worthwhile to self-loop.

A claimed exothermic device triggered by heat supposedly evolves heat at a higher temperature than the input source.  That means that once started the device should self-sustain by simply controlling the rate at which heat is removed through an exchanger.  Rossi's story is ridiculous to the point of being completely stupid.

[ramset]

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--  that principle is contempt prior to investigation."  -
Herbert Spencer
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This is getting real clear and very simple to play with,perhaps some contributions on how to investigate ??


respectfully


Chet

[MarkE]

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--  that principle is contempt prior to investigation."  -
Herbert Spencer
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This is getting real clear and very simple to play with,perhaps some contributions on how to investigate ??


respectfully


Chet

Sure:  Measure actual output heat flux by calorimetry with a proper control experiment in parallel to insure the readings are correct.  Heat is after all what the device is supposed to cheaply produce.  So measure it!

Do not let Rossi within 1000 meters of the experiment.

Ensure that the input power is measured between a source that is completely under the control of the experimenters or a trusted uninterested third party such as the power utility.

None of these measures are particularly difficult tasks.  Well perhaps keeping Rossi away is.  If Rossi doesn't want the experimenters to disassemble his device and is worried about whether he can trust them, then an independent observer can be hired to ensure that the black boxes remain sealed.

[Poit]

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/10/12/232230/independent-researchers-test-rossis-alleged-cold-fusion-device-for-32-days