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At the recent “Atom Unexplored” conference in Torino Italy, Dr. Peter Hagelstein of MIT gave a presentation about some of his work in the field of low energy nuclear reaction research, concentrating on the work of his colleague Dr. Mitchell Swartz. Swartz has invented a palladium-based device he names a NANOR. When an electric current is passed through the palladium, excess energy in the form of heat is produced which, according to Hagelstein, is over 14 times the input energy.

In this talk, Hagelstein says that this NANOR has been running at MIT since January, and it has continued to produce excess heat far beyond anything that could be accounted for by a chemical reaction. Hagelstein says that the public is invited to take a look at the device in action.

http://www.e-catworld.com/2012/05/hagelstein-public-invited-to-see-continuing-cold-fusion-demonstration-at-mit/



Since it is MIT, and the public is purportedly "invited to take a look at the device in action", surely such a claim is independently verifiable?

It would be, were the device carefully analysed and checked. I've tried without success to find a writeup quantifying all the possible error sources: or even detailed enough to let 3rd party do this.

Yeah. Granted there are complexities involved in this, but you'd think that before anyone would even hint at excess energy they would do everything they could to demonstrate it, beyond any question of measuring errors.

If I had definite X15 excess heat with total energy out >> chemical possibility the first thing I would do is try really hard to close down any experimental error loopholes. The second would be to publish the results of that effort to catch errors, very carefully, saying "hey look this is anomalous". The third would be to accept a Nobel Prize...

The NANOR was developed by Mitchell Swartz, who owns the company JET Energy, Inc. Swartz was invited by Hagelstein to demonstrate his device during the latter's short course on cold fusion during the winter break. As far as I am aware, Dr. Swartz is not currently on the faculty of MIT or any other institution of higher learning. Dr. Hagelstein is an associate professor of electrical engineering at MIT. Has the NANOR been continuously producing an energy gain of 14 times since January? Well, that's the claim. If the device is still operating, I'm guessing it can be found in Hagelstein's lab.

All right, I looked into it, and it seems the claim, as Infinite Energy reports it, is an energy gain of 14.12 over several hours. There is also a claim, apparently by Swartz, that the NANOR experiment has run continuously for at least several months, with excess energy.