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- From: Jed Rothwell <72240.1256@compuserve.com>
- Subject: Mills & Ying
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- Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
- Reply-To: Jed Rothwell <72240.1256@compuserve.com>
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- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 23:50:04 GMT
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- John Logajan remarks:
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- "Tom Droege also replicated it [the Mills experiment]. However, he went
- beyond the Mills procedures and coupled the thermal input and output together,
- which resulted in net negative result."
-
- Yes, and he is not the only one. Two other groups I talked to used a closed
- cell and/or a separate recombiner enclosed in the calorimeter, and came to
- the same conclusion. Yet several others have measured net positive heat. It
- is baffling. The current density is low, so it is hard to distinguish excess
- heat from recombination. I wish I had the money and the time to try it myself.
-
- Regarding Ying's work: let me emphasize that I *think* he is missing something.
- Perhaps he is mismeasuring the input electricity, since that appears to be the
- weakest part of his experiment. However, I have not seen any papers from him,
- or talked to him at length, so that is just a tentative guess.
-
- - Jed
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-