The Significance of Replication
kiloVolts
Title:
The Significance of Replication
Authors:
McKrubre, Michael C. H.; Tanzella, Francis L.; Violante, Vittorio
Publication:
American Physical Society, 2008 APS March Meeting, March 10-14, 2008,
abstract #A17.001
Publication Date:
03/2008
Origin:
APS
Bibliographic Code:
2008APS..MARA17001M
Abstract
Much has been made of an apparent lack of reproducibility in so called
``cold fusion'' experiments. In this paper we will demonstrate that this
failure, while real, was the result of inability to meet critical threshold
criteria: a thermodynamic loading, dynamic flux and disequilibrium trigger.
Recent experiments, performed independently at SRI and ENEA, have
successfully replicated powerful excess heat results obtained initially by
Energetics in Israel. This success and high levels of experiment
reproducibility are attributed to two critical factors that allow these
threshold barriers to be surpassed: i)achievement and maintenance of a high
level of control of the metallurgy of the bulk palladium metal host and the
cathode surface morphology, guided by initial studies at ENEA and the
University of Rome,ii) use of a novel non steady-state cathode current
stimulus, proposed and developed by Energetics. With simultaneous high
deuterium loading and high flux, excess heat effects were measured in both
Isoperibolic and Mass Flow calorimeters at factors several times greater
than the electrical input power and several orders of magnitude larger than
the sum of all conceivable chemical reactions.