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Coolescence's analysis
of Dr. Mel Miles
2016 Ridgecrest experiment

Summary of the Experiment and Analysis

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In July 2016 Dr. Melvin Miles performed a 13 day experiment at his home in Ridgecrest, CA where he charged a Pd cathode in a heavy water electrolyte containing 0.1 M KNO3 . The experiment produced a claimed excess heat starting almost immediately and  peaking over  70 mW. Details of this experiment were presented at ICCF-20 and a satellite meeting SSICCF20. Some details of the Ridgecrest experiment are contained in Miles' presentation "The Fleischmann-Pons Calorimetric Method And Equations” 

Dr. Miles generously provided Coolescence with copies of his lab notebook, pages 85-94, which contained measurement values that were transcribed into an Excel spreadsheet at Coolescence. At  Miles’ suggesting with the help of LENR-CANR.org  the spreadsheet is now publically available here. 

For his experiment Dr. Miles used custom-built isoperibolic calorimeter.  Like all calorimeters of this type the difference in temperature between the inside and a stable outside is used to infer heat produced.    The amount of heat reported by the calorimeter depends linearly on a calibrtion coefficient k.   We suggest charactersitics of the calorimeter design may allow for unanticipated variations in k.  As a result the uncertainity in the calorimetric measurements may be as much as several percent.  We  argue a more likely interpretation for the data set is no excess heat and a larger than claimed calorimetric uncertainty.

Find the attached document of our analysis of that data set at the bottom of this page.

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