Andrea Rossi Vindicated? Cold Fusion Takes Another Step Towards Credibility

[profitis]

Mark E:'crooks who put on rigged dog and pony shows.'

Lol. this crook who is swaying and swooning people in powerful positions left,right and centre

[MarkE]

I have done some work in this field using a master heater and a tandem slave heater. They are Nichrome elements wound on alumina tubes. Dummy fuels are used initially to calibrate the system, then the active fuel is introduced into the slave heater, while the master (temperature controlled heater) has dummy fuel.

In calibration runs, I was able to maintain 1 degree C matching on the heaters up to 1200 C. Then the active fuel was introduced into the slave. In testing thus far, there was no temperature rise above the master controlled heater. My containers were not pressurized and I believe the Hydrogen from LAlH was able to leak out without embedding into the Ni powder. Next step: sealed containers, but this will wait for outdoor testing.

I used DASYLab as the data logging and control platform, a thermocouple data acquisition module from MCC DAQ, the TEMP-TC, and a specially built phase angle controller suitable for inductive loads driving a General Radio step down transformer for the heaters with matched 24 Volt secondaries. I wanted isolated secondaries to avoid data contamination that might occur from thermionic voltages induced at the high temperatures into the measuring thermocouples. This prevented a return path for such loop currents.

If there is further interest, I can supply the rationale for the test method, including more photos of equipment used and actual glowing heaters, but this method should be self explanatory.

This technique while not perfect, is massively more objective and reliable than anything we have seen from either Rossi or his sycophant supporters over these past four years.  This method measures the temperature using reliable thermocouples, and has a pretty good control in the form of the coupled master / slave heaters first run together both with dummy loads and then side by side one still with a dummy load and the other with the LA|H test load.  Anyone who has considered handing cash over to Rossi should be paying Vortex1 for his valuable services.

[profitis]

Vortex1:'My containers were not pressurized and I believe the Hydrogen from LAlH was able to leak out without embedding into the Ni powder.'

This is the most difficult task for anyone.even at room temperature it is exceptionaly difficult to spot/stop h2 leaks.at elevated temps it gets orders of magnitude more difficult.this is why 98% experimenters will fail even if they manage to by chance get everything organised correctly inside the vessels

[Vortex1]

Here's another screenshot of a run up to 1000 C. Note that the chart lines for master and slave run nearly on top of each other appearing as one rise to setpoint. Only at the very beginning is there any separation to distinguish the channels.
Testing with sealed containers will be done in the near future, but with all safety in place.

[Vortex1]

Vortex1:'My containers were not pressurized and I believe the Hydrogen from LAlH was able to leak out without embedding into the Ni powder.'

This is the most difficult task for anyone.even at room temperature it is exceptionaly difficult to spot/stop h2 leaks.at elevated temps it gets orders of magnitude more difficult.this is why 98% experimenters will fail even if they manage to by chance get everything organised correctly inside the vessels

Agreed, but I think I have a container design that will satisfy the problem. If there are any interested parties that can help with the mechanical design or are interested further, kindly message me.