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			<title>Edwin Pell says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4628</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Malachi, I suggest seeing what we have in both the Celani wires and the one home made wire. First an SEM look. Then a cross section in SEM. Then cross section and acid etch to highlight features and SEM. Also pull off some of the surface of a Celani wire and do atomic composition with EDS and composition of raw wire and home made wire. You might get university help by saying you are studying hydrogen storage in nickel and nickel/copper alloys. This is a safe topic very green energy for the hydrogen economy...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Edwin Pell</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2013 22:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Ecco says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4622</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@Malachi: additional ideas for new wires treatment would need ready SEM access to check out if they work as intended. Anyway, in no particular order: - Direct power stimulation (this can be done with the wires in place) - High temperature oxidation cycles under air -> high temperature (500+ °C) oxide reduction under hydrogen - Nitric Acid etching - Liquid nitrogen heat shock treatment (this will create loads of micro cracks. However the right balance to not have very brittle wires would have to be found)]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ecco</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2013 19:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Malachi Heder says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4619</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@ All We are trying to come up with a new idea for our home made wire. Any ideas? I think we've demonstrated loading on a joule heated wire, but what's next for it? Do we try a new wire? Do we continue to load? Do we try power through the active wire?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Malachi Heder</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Robert Greenyer says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4600</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@All Looking interesting. In this paper by Celani et al. http://www.iiste.org/PDFshare/CMRV3N3-27-56.pdf Whilst an old paper, he discusses the use of HNO3 in section 2(f) after after correct (not too high) current driven, thermal cycling and there is an SEM image of the skeletal result (figure 10 on page 43). We have discussed internally the capability of HNO3 solutions to dissolve things at different rates. The combination of processes - the boiling off of copper, the oxidisation, the HNO3 treatment and lastly reduction in the H2 atmosphere could all be part of developing the critical surface morphology that could be a skeletal open pore structure with nano wires/cracks with non-linear surface binding forces and desirable crystal sub-structure all supported on good conductor. In 6 1) - he notes that a wire achieved a resistivity drop of 18% - in the EU test right now - even when powered, we have seen 29% and around 18% for the 2 wires in the active cell. Though Celani has seen wires of this level of loading.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Robert Greenyer</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 12 Oct 2013 15:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Ryan Hunt says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4595</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@ Ed - I like the idea of selling a wire joule-heating bench. That could be done quick and cheap. The recipe we used in published in the notebook.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ryan Hunt</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2013 21:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Ryan Hunt says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4594</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@ Ed - I like that idea. I wish I had the time today to work on that. All the data is there, though, if anyone else wants to pull out the pressures, temperatures, and resistances. The trick is that the temperature is not consistent through the volume of the cell. That means the only certain place to determine the full loading is when the cell is cool. The next best thing is to develop a correlation between temperature and pressure when there is no absorption.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ryan Hunt</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2013 21:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Ecco says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4593</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As a possible treatment I would also propose soaking a heated wire in liquid nitrogen in order to form thermal shock cracks on its surface and perhaps even deeper into the bulk. It would then be interesting to see SEM photos of such wires.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ecco</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2013 21:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Edwin Pell says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4592</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I think you have enough data to publish loading versus temperature. The community would love to see that graph. An apparatus and recipe would meet the goals of the MFMP 100% but if you can fill in pieces of the "eco-system" of understanding like this graph that is bonus points/ gravy/ a good thing.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Edwin Pell</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2013 21:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Edwin Pell says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4590</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Congratulations , it loads! 7% hot and 11% cold. Now the question is if you etch out the Cu, CuO, CuO2 with acid and heat again how much more will you get? How much deeper into the wire will the segregation/oxi dation go? Then there is the big question, will this wire make excess heat as is at 7%?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Edwin Pell</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2013 21:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Ecco says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4563</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It looks like cycling power once down, then up, caused resistance to increase when powered. Strange.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ecco</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2013 17:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Malachi Heder says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4560</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@ All We are seeing loading (resistance decreasing). We will try temperature cycling to see how far it will load.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Malachi Heder</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Malachi Heder says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4524</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@ Ecco The adjustment was done before I started the script. One of the thermistors broke out of the solder, so that was necessary to fix. I won't adjust them if it is not necessary :)]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Malachi Heder</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Ecco says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4521</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@Malachi: if you won't adjust the active insulation anymore, this data can be still used as a reference point to check out if loading will bring improvements to the calculated output values (and temperatures).]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ecco</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Malachi Heder says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4520</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@ Ed Pell I'm thinking we will keep increasing it. The goal is to see the wire load, which it is doing now. We will stick on this 15 watt step to see how far it drops. After that we will increase the power again. @ Ecco Nothing looks wrong physically, I did adjust the active insulation yesterday, but that shouldn't have taken the cell this far out of calibration, if at all. I will say that this calorimeter has the same position and magnitude effects. As much as we try to get the cell in exactly the same position, we can't get it perfect. Just keep those effects in mind while looking at the data.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Malachi Heder</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Ecco says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4515</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@Malachi: yet, so far the calculated output power is significantly lower than the input, though; at 0W it's negative (about -0.10W).]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ecco</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 20:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Edwin Pell says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4512</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I'm excited. Malachi, what are you thinking in terms of maximum temperature. The multiwire went to 400 degree and was just starting to load. I am surprised the home made wire is loading so much at so low a temperature. We will know more when it gets to 15 watts applied.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Edwin Pell</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 19:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Malachi Heder says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4511</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@ All The data should be back now. There was server downtime last night. I just noticed the active insulation on CTC#3 was not working properly. I fixed it and am starting a sweep of 0 to 15 watts in steps of 1 watt and at 1 hour each.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Malachi Heder</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 18:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Edwin Pell says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4510</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Data stops as of Tuesday evening??? Looks like all experiments are off line as of last night??? a watched pot never boils, a watched pot never boils, ..... it is starting to boil thanks.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Edwin Pell</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Ecco says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4508</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@Edwin Pell: after looking at the data more closely, I think there might be problems with these results. Please read the updates to my previous comment. EDIT: by the way, a proper sweep run from low power after each input power increase run (sorry, not sure how to call exactly the 15 minute, 0.1W step run from the last highest input step achieved) as I suggested would be a good thing to do in order to check whether loading indeed affects excess power, after the wire/active material has been installed in the cell. To date, I don't remember direct evidence of this happening. EDIT2: some more indirect analysis of the potential problem in the data. In addition of output power starting at negative values, it appears that the anomaly might not be increasing with input power, quite the opposite in fact: http://i.imgur.com/yGFMTS9.png http://i.imgur.com/yGFMTS9.png http://i.imgur.com/qQienYH.png http://i.imgur.com/qQienYH.png (I hand picked the Y values for the parallel lines, and haven't been as accurate as I wanted, but I think it's clear that the apparent excess increased more between 6W and 9W than it did between 9 and 12W).]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ecco</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 00:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Edwin Pell says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4507</link>
			<description><![CDATA[First, let's see if we can get to 0.75 R/R0.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Edwin Pell</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 00:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Robert Greenyer says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4500</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@Walker You are in line with some of our thinking.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Robert Greenyer</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 17:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>walker says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4499</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Ferrimagnetic materials have high resistivity. I wonder what the Larmor precession frequency is for various nickel Ferrimagnetic compounds is?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>walker</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 16:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Robert Greenyer says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4496</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@All We need a Nal detector in France, does anyone know anyone that can lend one?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Robert Greenyer</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 11:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Edwin Pell says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4495</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I think it takes 350 to 400 degree to get significant loading. We are at 195 degrees. I think we have a ways to go. When we get to 6.5 ohms then I will say we have had some significant loading. We are at 7.16 ohms currently.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Edwin Pell</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 01:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Ecco says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4494</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It looks like the more heat is applied, the more resistance decreases: http://i.imgur.com/ZvbNNvl.png http://i.imgur.com/ZvbNNvl.png]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ecco</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Ecco says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4492</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@Malachi: I haven't seen that in the experiment log. I'm assuming you're referring to this one: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AiUU8sU37DYsdEFIa2gtSGp3bjVweEc3UWIwRnFKWXc&output=html]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ecco</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Malachi Heder says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4491</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@ Ecco The Confidence of CTC #3 is on par with CTC #2. The data is: Input Power (W)	95% CI (W)	99% CI (W) 0.0021	0.0235	0 .0368 3.0044	0.0365	0 .0572 6.0065	0.0340	0 .0534 9.0037	0.0120	0 .0189 12.0123	0.0065	 0.0102 15.0079	0.0085	 0.0134 18.0068	0.0102	 0.0160 21.0122	0.0244	 0.0383 24.0086	0.0210	 0.0329 27.0118	0.1527	 0.2395 30.0061	0.2356	 0.3695 I thought I posted it in the experiment log, but just to make sure I included it here. The big jump was when I added 0.25 watts on the active wire. I adjusted the R/R0 to account for the decrease in resistance. We are most likely going to cycle the cell up and down to find where the wire loads, whether or not it does load.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Malachi Heder</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Ecco says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4490</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A couple more questions for MFMP: - How tight is the calibration for output power calculations? Is related data available somewhere? It already seems that the cell might be (or might soon be) generating excess power, which would be unbelievable. - Why has R/R0 increased in one big step halfway during the ongoing run even though resistance hasn't? - Why don't you set the experiment to continue stepping up power through the night to the next morning in Minnesota? This is more like a request/suggest ion. It seems a bit of a waste of time to me to keep the cells idling when they could produce more interesting data.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ecco</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Edwin Pell says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4489</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This is an important step to making the experiment open source and repeatable by others. Thank you. Thank you.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Edwin Pell</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Ecco says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4486</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It looks like the HUG-made treated constantan wire is loading hydrogen. @MFMP: for R/R0 values, not only for this but all other experiments as well, it would be useful to have more than 4 decimal digits of precision, if possible. @MFMP: by the way, this blogpost for some reason isn't in the "latest news". You can see that because of this it's getting many less views than it normally would.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ecco</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 16:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Malachi Heder says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4471</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@ Ecco I had to use CTC #3 for a while today. It was used for the position and scale test I ran. The cell was not being used during that time. It should be back to normal now.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Malachi Heder</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 20:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Ecco says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-4467</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A few questions: - You didn't treat the wire with an acid bath yet, did you? - Wire resistance is currently 4.43 Ohm, is it the correct value? It seems to have dropped a lot since vacuum was pulled. It could also mean that the wire got damaged in the process. - Is there a public link for the main Evernote notebook for that documentation?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ecco</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 19:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
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