From: Dieter Britz <BRITZ@kemi.aau.dk>
Subject: CNF bibliography update (total now 736 papers, 111 patents/appl.).
Reply-To: Dieter Britz <BRITZ@kemi.aau.dk>
Organization: Sci.physics.fusion/Mail Gateway
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 00:41:30 GMT


ATTENTION GOODLIFE!
I fire off a couple of juicies, including the long-awaited "GE paper" with
Fritz Will as one of the authors. This is interesting in that Will, regarded
as a believer of cold fusion (he was Director of the NCFI), finds no excess
heat, and rubbishes FPALH's data analysis and experiments. This evoked a
strong response from F&P, as you see below. The Conway+ paper is a peripheral
but a must for anyone doing cold fusion electrolysis. It is s gold mine of
info on diffusion of hydrogen in metals and the thermodynamics and kinetics of
the reactions taking place at Pd. Among other things, the famous fugacity
argument is (a bit indirectly) squashed.
                                                                        Dieter
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                     COLD NUCLEAR FUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY
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                           Additions 7-Sep-1992
                   Dieter Britz alias britz@kemi.aau.dk
                           Total in Section 2: 736

Published articles, Letters; archived files CNF-PAP1..5
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Fleischmann M, Pons S;                    J. Electroanal. Chem. 332 (1992) 33.
"Some comments on the paper Analysis of experiments on the calorimetry of
LiOD-D2O electrochemical cells, R.H. Wilson et al., J. Electroanal. Chem.
332 (1992) 1".
** A strong rebuttal of the cited polemic paper. F&P find it full of
misconceptions and misrepresentations of their own previous reports. In
particular, F&P write that they did not neglect evaporation effects, did not
overestimate heat transfer, and that they used modern data treatment methods
such as Kalman filtering, unlike Wilson et al.                   Mar-92/Aug-92
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Wilson RH, Bray JW, Kosky PG, Vakil HB, Will FG;
J. Electroanal. Chem. 332 (1992) 1.
"Analysis of experiments on the calorimetry of LiOD-D2O electrochemical
cells".
** This paper is in two parts. The first is a detailed analysis of the
calorimetry and data treatment of Fleischmann, Pons et al (1990) (FPALH-90).
The authors conclude that FPALH-90 overestimated their excess heat, by
neglecting some crucial factors such as evaporation at high temperatures, and
overestimated the cell's heat transfer coefficient. Also the errors in the
FPALH work are likely to be in the 5-10% range, which brings most of the
excess heats, when correctly calculated, within the error. Further, the
correlation between excess heat and current reported in FPALH disappears upon
correct calculation. Short-term excess heat excursions remain apparently
valid, however.
In a smaller part of the paper, the authors' own calorimetric experiments are
described. Several kinds of cells were used and a number of palladium
cathodes, including ones as used by FPALH, with and without pretreatment,
using open and closed cells. All of these experiments resulted in zero excess
heat, i.e. excess heat within the error band, fluctuating above and below the
zero line. A Manganese nitrate solution was used to capture any possible
neutrons, and none were found; nor was any tritium, beyond that from
electrolytic enrichment.                                         Jun-91/Aug-92
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Peripheral papers; archived file CNF-PERI
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Conway BE, Wojtowicz;                    J. Electroanal. Chem. 326 (1992) 277.
"Time-scales of electrochemical desorption and sorption of H in relation to
dimensions and geometries of host metal hydride electrodes".
** Cold fusion is mentioned only peripherally, the accent here being on a new
kind of battery, using hydrogen storage in a suitable metal. For this, large
capacity for hydrogen is desirable (and LaNi5 seems to be a favourite alloy),
and it is of vital interest to know about loading rates. This throrough paper
examines this question in minute detail for different electrode geometries
like plates, small spheres and wires. For optimum charging efficiency, a
rational charging current program is suggested.                  Jan-91/May-92
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Journalistic comment;   archived file CNF-CMNT
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Watson T;                                   Nature 358 (1992), 20-Aug, p. 616.
"Scientists deny alleged support of company's 'new nuclear science'".
** Of the sixteen scientists quoted by the new cold fusion company Clustron
Sciences Corporation, the ten that could be reached denied supporting the
theory of Dr. Brightsen, i.e. the theoretical base of that company. Another
person cited as supporter, Prof. W. Buck, has publicly stated that he does in
fact not support the theory. Of the remaining five, two could not be contacted
and two are not scientists, writes Traci Watson.
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Dieter Britz alias britz@kemi.aau.dk
Kemisk Institut, Aarhus Universitet, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Telephone: +45-86124633 (8:30-16:00 weekdays); fax: +45-86196199
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