2026-10-09 NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Queries (NTRS API https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/search?q=...): "light water potassium carbonate nickel excess heat" (3 hits, 1 relevant); "Marchese hydrino", "hydrino", "BlackLight Power", "Mills lower-energy hydrogen" (0 hits each).

Found: J. M. Niedra (NYMA Inc.), I. T. Myers, G. C. Fralick, R. S. Baldwin (NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland), "Replication of the Apparent Excess Heat Effect in a Light Water-Potassium Carbonate-Nickel Electrolytic Cell", NASA Technical Memorandum 107167, February 1996, NTRS id 19960016952 [web: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19960016952; files/NASA-TM-Niedra-1996-light-water-K2CO3-Ni-excess-heat.pdf].

From the abstract [read: p.1 of the TM]: "apparent excess heat of 11 W maximum, for 60 W electrical power into the cell. Power gains ranged from 1.06 to 1.68." The 28-litre cell was "on loan from a private corporation" (in the body: Hydrocatalysis Power Corporation, Mills's company) whose own similar cells were documented to give 50 W steady excess for hundreds of days. The excess "can not be readily explained" by thermal-conductance nonlinearity or thermoelectric pumping, but "the present data do admit efficient recombination of dissolved hydrogen-oxygen as an ordinary explanation." It concludes that a more thorough investigation "remains warranted".

Bearing: priority 2 (an outside government laboratory measurement of the early electrolytic form of claim 2's energy release), with the authors' own stated ordinary explanation (recombination) beside it. The IIT Kanpur 2026 abstract (2026-10-09-google-scholar.md) cites this work as corroboration "at NASA". The Earthtech page (2026-10-09-earthtech.md) lists it among claimed confirmations.