ENVR 220 |
| The cold fusion controversy continues to center on the precision and accuracy of the calorimetric systems used to measure excess enthalpy generation. Therefore, experiments were conducted on clean “blank systems” where no excess enthalpy is expected which consisted of platinum (not palladium) cathodes polarized in heavy water containing 0.1 M LiOD. The most accurate results were obtained by using averaging procedures for the experimental data as well as backward integration of the data sets. It is shown that the precision of this cold fusion isoperibolic calorimetry is better than 99.99% while the accuracy is close to this figure, i.e., any excess power is measurable to within ±0.1 mW. The calorimetric error correlates with the error in temperature measurements coupled to averaging procedures. The rate of enthalpy production due to the reduction of electrogenerated oxygen was measurable as 1.1 mW in these experiments. The logical conclusion from this control study is that excess enthalpy measurements using this cold fusion calorimetric system cannot be scientifically dismissed simply as calorimetric errors. |
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New Energy Technology
8:30 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, March 29, 2007 McCormick Place South -- Room S106B, Level 1, Oral
Division of Environmental Chemistry |