Re: a "cold fusion" experiment for the brave

[brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>]

At 00:02 7/3/98 -0700, you wrote:
> Here's a recent message about a claimed "cold fusion" (Low Energy Nuclear
> Reaction) phenomenon, said to lack the usual replication problems, as well
> as having significant excess energy output.  Even "garage experimenters"
> could do this one.
>
>  http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/weird/anode.txt
>
> William J. Beaty 

Bill,
as a CF experimenter in 'good' standing ( I talked to Fleishman about an
electrochemistry issue before he became in/famous, I attended the 2nd AP 
meeting at LA and I tried a garage replication of CF - unsuccessfully as 
it happens) I'd better at least warn other garage experimentalists about
a pitfall into which the suggested setup is inviting them to fall.

   Don't expect to get good calorimetric energy balances by computing
electrical power input using an AC source, a bridge rectifier, and a 
digital voltmeter. The error could be as high as 1.4/1.0
   Oh! isn't that the over unity gain figure some folks are getting from
the suggested setup?      What a coincidence!

Brian Whatcott