Rossi E-Cat HT shows excess heat from H gas + Ni powder making Cu over days, three cautious multiday runs: Rich Murray 2013.05.22

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Rossi E-Cat HT shows excess heat from H gas + Ni powder making Cu over days, three cautious multiday runs: Rich Murray 2013.05.22

http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2013/05/rossi-e-cat-ht-shows-excess-heat-from-h.html

So far, three days of vigorous discussions on several Net forums have not found any of the usual flaws...

Six months of study are planned for this summer.

For business reasons, no details are public about catalysts,  special waveforms of input electric power for internal heating resistors, and possible nuclear reactions are given, so theorists have little to work with.

If new unknown nuclear physics exists, capable in small devices of melting steel in runaway thermal excursions, governments have a mandate to ensure that the physics is immediately studied in a crash program to assess the implications for national security and profound rapid human progress.

"Figs. 1-2. Two images from the test performed on Nov. 20th 2012.

Here, the activation of the charge (distributed laterally in the reactor) is especially obvious.

The darker lines in the photograph are actually the shadows of the resistor coils, which yield only a minimal part of the total thermal power.

The performance of this device was such that the reactor was destroyed, melting the internal steel cylinder and the surrounding ceramic layers. 

The long term trials analyzed in the present report were purposely performed at a lower temperatures for safety reasons."

"Fig. 3 shows a thermal video frame from the IR camera: the temperature of 859 °C refers to Area 2 (delimited by the “cross hairs”), whereas the average temperature recorded for the body of the device, relevant to the rectangle indicated as Area 1, is 793 °C."

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1305/1305.3913.pdf

free 29-page text with color photos and graphs

Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device

containing hydrogen loaded nickel powder.

Giuseppe Levi

Bologna University, Bologna, Italy

Evelyn Foschi

Bologna, Italy

Torbjörn Hartman, Bo Höistad, Roland Pettersson and Lars Tegnér

Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Hanno Essén

Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

ABSTRACT

An experimental investigation of possible anomalous heat production in a special type of reactor tube named E-Cat HT is carried out. 

The reactor tube is charged with a small amount of hydrogen loaded nickel powder plus some additives.

The reaction is primarily initiated by heat from resistor coils inside the reactor tube.

Measurement of the produced heat was performed with high-resolution thermal imaging cameras, recording data every second from the hot reactor tube. 

The measurements of electrical power input were performed with a large bandwidth three phase power analyzer.

Data were collected in two experimental runs lasting 96 and 116 hours, respectively.

An anomalous heat production was indicated in both experiments.

The 116-hour experiment also included a calibration of the experimental set-up without the active charge present in the E-Cat HT.

In this case, no extra heat was generated beyond the expected heat from the electric input.

Computed volumetric and gravimetric energy densities were found to be far above those of any known chemical source. 

Even by the most conservative assumptions as to the errors in the measurements, the result is still one order of magnitude greater than conventional energy sources.

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