Report from ICCF-17 (autore: utente paolo)

Questo spazio mi piace dedicarlo al Nostro illustre connazionale - Il Prof. Francesco Celani - che, nell'indifferenza più totale dei media e dei politici del nostro Paese, in questi giorni, in queste ore ci rappresenta in maniera mirabile a Daejeon, mostrando al Mondo scientifico internazionale quali potrebbero essere le attuali potenzialità della ricerca italiana nel settore della Fusione Fredda.

Nonostante le difficoltà, l'ostruzionismo più volte stigmatizzato sia da illustri rappresentanti della Cultura italiana, come pure da semplici cittadini di questa Repubblica, che scrivono in questo Blog, il Prof. Celani, il Prof. Piantelli e l'ing. Rossi mi rendono orgoglioso di essere italiano.

Grazie a tutti Voi per il Vs. lavoro, ma un grazie particolare al Prof. Francesco Celani di cui pubblico il seguente “REPORT”.

paolo

August 14, 2012

I thought this comment from Tyler van Houwelingen deserved to be in separate post. Thanks Tyler!

Greetings from ICCF-17,

[...] By the way, Celanis demo is being setup now and looks AWESOME. Finally seeing LENR first hand is very cool. With 25W excess heat expected, I will see if we can boil some water for the coffee here at the conference….

tyler

In addition, Jed Rothewell has been reporting on vortex-l about the Celani device that is being set up at the meeting:

Celani has set up his demonstration cell. The people from TI reworked the instruments and the LabView code that collects data. They did a beautiful job. Celani just told me that he inputs 48 W constantly. This morning it did not work. They ran it and let it cool to clean it. They tried again about an hour ago and it began to produce ~4 W excess fairly soon. It climbs gradually up to ~20 W gradually and stays stable after that.

Very impressive. Peter Hagelstein considers this an important experiment . . .

Celani’s spoken English is hard to understand. Many details of his presentation escaped me. I will ask him for copies of the slides. He is usually happy to share them.

He concluded by saying he plans to improve the insulation and put it in self-sustaining mode, soon. That is to say, trigger the reaction with external power much less than 48 W, and then when it heats up anomalously, cut the external power and let it run in heat after death mode indefinitely. The current does stimulate wire activity, I guess with electromigration, but it is not essential once the reaction can begin.

That will put to rest any concerns about the calorimetry, needless to say. That is a good idea. Celani is no fool.

He says he thinks the wire acts mainly as a proton conductor.

Pure, clean, as-received constantan does not work. The stuff is very cheap, by the way. Available in unlimited amounts.

I think he said the longest run with this device in Italy was 2 months continuous. The biggest technical hurdle with this and the other wires he has been working on is that the wire breaks. Hydrogen embrittlement, I suppose. Constantan is not particularly immune to this but it seems to hold up at high temperatures.