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- From: STEVO%URSINUS.BITNET@vm1.nodak.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Submission for sci.physics.fusion
- Message-ID: <9301081829.AA08979@suntan.Tandem.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 21:19:33 GMT
- Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
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- In reply to several postings and E-mail messages, I offer this reply:
-
- I am not worried so much about the tone of the net being anti-CNF, but
- I am unhappy about the LaRouche-type postings and the personal jabs
- that often appear. I guess I'm too much of an idealist.
-
- As far as peer review, I do want that before I release any significant
- findings. But I also like the kind of peer review that Tom Droege does,
- where everybody has a chance to comment on things while the experiment
- is in progress.
-
- I am fully aware that there are "problems" with the experiments Mills
- and I published in Fusion Technology, but I have never personally been
- asked to help anyone with a replication, so what do you want me to say?
- Most of the "problems" have to do with our not using a constant temperature
- bath, but we really didn't have to have one since our results were so
- spectacular. We wanted it to be extremely easy to replicate for anyone,
- so we made the experiments simple.
-
- A replication is fairy easy, as far as our data goes...we published
- all details, including the very simple circuits I designed so that anyone
- could just go to Radio Shack and get all the parts, as well as purchase
- all other needed materials for less than $500 from chemical supply
- houses. (If doing pulsed circuits, borrowing an oscilloscope would
- be most helpful, but constant current cells also give nice results)
-
- To anyone attempting an MKF replication:
-
- 1) Use very clean Nickel cathodes. Do NOT use any organic solvents, or
- any acid cleaners. We used just distilled water on nickel purchased
- from Aldrich used right out of the box. NO FINGERPRINTS!!!
-
- 2) When the cell operates correctly, you should observe a milky white
- stream of bubbles along the cathode. Large bubbles should tip you off
- that the cells are not working properly.
-
- 3) Rubber and any other organic materials will cause problems...don't
- put anything in solution except Potassium Carbonate, Nickel, Platinum
- and glassware. I have also use Teflon, but I have had some problems
- with it, probably due to contamination of the teflon. Noninski has
- published results in Fusion Technology using some teflon.
-
- 4) It is often helpful to put the cell in reverse, with the Nickel as
- anode, for about 30 minutes, at the very start of the experiment, but
- most of the cells I use produced excess heat without this step. Multiple
- reversals of the cell polaritly can lead to serious performance deficits.
-
-
- If you have any questions, I'd be glad to help.
-
- Sincerely,
-
- Steve Kneizys...
-