Celani Wire Loaded

Written by Ryan Hunt on 08 November 2012.

Malachi is reassembling the cell after we wrapped the Celani wire around the mica!

Next step is to do two calibration runs in Helium before starting the loading phase.

Note: Don't be surprised if we start blurring out Malachi's face to keep him from getting any more famous for his wonderful work. ;)

10:52 pm Minnesota Time: The cell is assembled and has been charged with helium. We have updated the software with the necessary changes to be able to calculate the power out as a function of cell temperature. We are just trying it out and seeing how it works. It takes some getting used to and some explaining. Right now we are testing at 5 bar of Helium and it is showing positive energy, but that is probably because the gas is not the same as the calibration equation. Any time we turn the power down and the power in drops before the cell temperature it seems to indicate excess energy, which has fooled our eager little minds a couple of times already. Because of this, I am hesitant to share the live data stream, for a little while till we can explain things better. Things are moving fast, though and it will be available soon.

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0 #4 Malachi Heder 2012-11-09 19:51

We have two wires in the Celani 1 cell (Celani wire and a NiCr wire). We are able to switch the power from one to the other (for independent heating) or both wires at the same time.

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+1 #3 David Jones 2012-11-09 19:40

I think Al Potenza's suggestion is excellent. Once all your runs are complete you can incrementally add wires to your chamber and verify the increase in power output (if indeed there is any). This would be a powerful experiment.

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+6 #2 Robert Greenyer 2012-11-09 11:19

Whilst the Celani wire is now in the cell. The wire is currently unloaded, that is to say, it does not contain H atoms in its lattice in a way that would enable the effect.

We must first run the "active" Celani wire in non active state first for control.

Then we must go through the loading process. This is a critical stage and needs to be done carefully. Only after this do we even dream of seeing the effect.

We have to perform controls first as after the specific loading process Celani reports that the wire is very reluctant to give up H.

It gets wired... ;-)

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+1 #1 David Jones 2012-11-09 10:46

I think this thermal lag is not a problem. When you are operating with hydrogen you will be slowly increasing the power input (I assume). As you do, this will show initially as a net energy loss due to the thermal lag before returning to zero. If any excess energy is present above a certain temperature, the time constant and magnitude of the thermal lag will diminish, furthermore, the graph should then return to a steady state position showing excess energy. This I think is useful in this experiment. No matter how detached you try to be in an experiment you are always willing the experiment to show the outcome you want and this is where experimental bias can creep in. In this situation, you know initially a negative energy will be shown and accept it, this will calm you down. Further, as you conduct the experiment it will also indicate that the diagnostics are working as they should – very important when you are hyped up on an experiment – believe me…

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