Validation of Excess Power Observations by Independent Laboratories
Excerpted from Excess Heat & Why Cold Fusion Research Prevailed, 2nd Ed., courtesy of Charles Beaudette

"After 1989, those willing to commit time to the field gradually brought forth increasingly well designed experiments. The seven cases described in some detail in this chapter plus two cases described in Chapters 1 and 4 offer confirmation of Fleischmann and Pons’s claim to have observed anomalous power.

Dr. Edmund Storms collected reports of anomalous power corroboration in March 1995, at the end of the first six years of cold fusion research.[1] Each had been reported in a published technical paper—an unusual protocol in science where only the second occurrence was ordinarily needed to confirm a claim of discovery. (The listed decimal number is the reported excess power maximum value in watts.)"

 
Researcher Year Reference Country Max Excess
Power (watts)
Aoki

1994

2 Japan
205.-
Appleby
1990 3 USA

0.049

Bertalot
1991 4 Italy
0.08

Bertalot

1992 5 Italy
3.-
Bush
1991 6 USA
6.0
Celani
1994 7 Italy
05.0
Fleischmann
1990 8 Japan
2.8
Gozzi
1991 9 Italy
12.8
Guruswamy
1989 10 USA
8.-
Hasegawa
1992 11 Japan
0.5
Hugo
1994 12 USA
23.−
Hutchinson
1990 13 USA
3.−
Kainthla
1989 14 USA
1.1
Lewis
1990 15 Sweden
1.0
Okamoto
1993 16 Japan
7.−
Ota
1992 17 Japan
11.3
Storms
1992 18 USA
7.5
Takahashi
1992 19 Japan
130.−
Yang
1990 20 Taiwan
12.9
Yun
1991 21 Korea
0.24

Zhang

1990 22 China
0.015
 
 

Experimental corroboration of anomalous power was now well advanced. The variety of the experiments made any attempt to refute these reports a daunting task as it must be done without exception. Such an undertaking would only be meaningful if presented as a full-length report published in a peer-reviewed journal. The preponderance of experimental evidence was now in support of anomalous power because of its successful replication in many independent laboratories.

 

References

1. Storms, Edmund, “Critical Review of the “Cold Fusion” Effect,” (preprint, 1993). Subsequently updated in 2001 in Cold Fusion: An Objective Assessment, Table 2.

2. Aoki, T., Y. Kurata, and H. Ebihara, “Study of Concentration of Helium and Tritium in Electrolytic Cells with Excess Heat Generation,” (Trans. of Fusion Technology, vol. 26, no. 4T, pt 2), p. 214.

3. Appleby, A. John, J. Kim Young, Oliver J. Murphy, and Supramaniam Srinivasan, “Anomalous Calorimetric Results During Long-Term Evolution of Deuterium on Palladium from Alkaline Deuteroxide Electrolyte,” (First Annual ICCF-1, Nat. CF Institute, SLC, Utah, 1990), p. 32.

4. Bertalot, L., L. Bettinali, F. De Marco, V. Violante, P. De Logu, T. Dikonimos Makris, and A. La Barbera, “Analysis of Tritium and Heat Excess in Electrochemical Cells with Pd Cathodes,” (S.I.F., “The Science of CF”, Proceedings ACCF-2, June 29, 1991, Como, Italy), p. 3.

5. Bertalot, L., F. De Marco, A. De Ninno, A. La Barbera, F. Scaramuzzi, V. Violante, and P. Zeppa, “Study of Deuterium Charging in Palladium by the Electrolysis of Heavy Water: Search for Heat and Nuclear Ashes,” H. Ikegami, ed., (University Academy Press, Frontiers of CF, 1993). p. 365.

6. Bush, Robert T., “Cold ‘Fusion’: The Transition Resonance Model Fits Data on Excess Heat, Predicts Optimal Trigger Points, and Suggests Nuclear Reaction Scenarios,” (Fusion Technology, 19, 1991). p. 313. Eagleton, R. D., and R. T. Bush, “Calorimetric Experiments Supporting the Transmission Resonance Model for CF,” (Fusion Technology, 20, 1991), p. 239.

7. Celani, F. A., A. Spallone, P. Tripoli, A. Nuvoli, A. Petrocchi, D. DiGioacchino, M. Boutet, P.Marini, and V. Di Stefano, “High Power Microsecond Pulsed Electrolysis for High Deuterium Loading in Pd Plates” (Trans. of Fusion Technology, vol. 26, no. 4T, pt.2), p. 127. Celani, F., A. Spallone, P. Tripoli, and A. Nuvoli, “Measurements of Excess Heat and Tritium During Self-Biased Pulsed Electrolysis of Pd-D2O,” H. Ikegami, ed., (University Academy Press, Frontiers of C.F., 1993), p. 93.

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11.Hasegewa, N., N. Hayakawa, Y. Tsuchida, and Y. Yamamoto, “Observations of Excess Heat During Electrolysis of 1M LiOD in a Fuel Cell Type Closed Cell,” (EPRI, Proc. ICCF-4, vol. I, December 6, 1993), p. 3-1. Hasegawa, N., K. Kunimatsu, T. Ohi, and T. Terasawa, “Observation of Excess Heat During Electrolysis of 1M LiOD in a Fuel Cell Type Closed Cell,” H. Ikegami, ed., (Univ. Academy Press, Frontiers of CF, 1993), p. 377.

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21.Yun, K-S., J-B. Ju, B-W. Cho, S-Y. Park, “Calorimetric Observation of heat Production During Electrolysis of 0.1 M LiOD_D2O Solution,” (Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 306, 1991), p. 279.

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