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- From: Jed Rothwell <72240.1256@compuserve.com>
- Subject: Light Water Replications
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 07:21:55 GMT
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- Thomas H. Kunich comments about the work of Bush and Eagleton:
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- "The question is: Is anyone trying to duplicate this work? While I have my
- doubts, this at least looks somewhat promising as an avenue of investigation.
- Finding calcium ash is pretty interesting."
-
- Yes. Notoya's replication of Bush's work is what caused the recent brouhaha in
- this forum.
-
- Let me review the history of this, just to bring everyone up to speed here:
-
- Bush and Eagleton use a light water - nickel cell. Their experiments were
- prompted by reports from Mills & Kneizys, and Noninski. After Bush replicated,
- five other groups in the U.S. told me privately that they had also replicated,
- getting about 30% excess heat, in most cases. The best results that I know of,
- as of today, are reported by Mills, and by Thermacore, Inc, which is a
- military contractor that specializes in thermal engineering. They get 900%
- excess, as reported in Business Week magazine, Oct. 26 issue, page 88. I know
- very little about Thermacore, I have no paper from them. However a high
- ranking scientist in the U.S. military who is a friend of mine tells me that
- he has worked with Thermacore for years, and they are experts at measuring
- heat. He visited them, and described their experiment to me, and it sounded
- convincing.
-
- The news of these replications reached me last winter, and prompted me to send
- the light water protocol and copies of papers by Mills, Noninski and Bush to a
- large number of workers throughout the world, asking them to try it. To my
- knowledge, only four groups tried the experiment, but all four replicated with
- very little trouble, and reported at Nagoya. Three are in BARC, India, who's
- work was reported by Srinivasan, and one was in Hokkaido. It is possible that
- other groups tried, but did not report back to me.
-
- For more details, see the Nagoya Conference Abstracts:
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- "Tritium and Excess Heat Generation During Electrolysis of Aqueous Solutions
- of Alkali Salts with Nickel Cathode," M. Srinivasan et al. (et al 8 others!)
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- "Excess Heat Production in Electrolysis of K2CO3 Solution with Ni Electrodes,"
- Notoya and Enyo
-
- Bush reports finding calcium, and so does Notoya. Bush has also observed other
- transmutations, with other salts, like strontium carbonate. I am not aware if
- anyone else has tried replicating these other results. Many people point out
- that calcium is a common contaminant.
-
- - Jed
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