LENR-CANR.org library, 2026-10-09 (Investigator, Step I, run 1)

Site: https://lenr-canr.org (PDF library). Reached from the Google query Naudin "plasma electrolysis" Mizuno replication excess heat steam "water droplets" OR entrainment and from links on Naudin's CFR index. PDFs fetched by curl.

Saved in research/files/: - Kowalski-searching-excess-heat-Mizuno-plasma-electrolysis.pdf (https://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/KowalskiLsearchingfa.pdf) - MizunoT-generation-heat-products-plasma-electrolysis.pdf (https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MizunoTgenerationa.pdf) - MizunoT-anomalous-heat-lenr-canr.pdf (http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MizunoTanomalouse.pdf; linked from Naudin's CFR index)

Result: positive.

Kowalski, Little and Luce, "Searching for excess heat in Mizuno-type plasma electrolysis" (ICCF-12, Yokohama, 2005)

[web] https://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/KowalskiLsearchingfa.pdf. Authors: Ludwik Kowalski (Montclair State University) and Scott Little and George Luce (EarthTech International). This goes beyond Kowalski's web commentary (item 73) already in the folder: Kowalski took part in an experiment. - Abstract: "Most reports, but not all, confirmed generation of excess heat ... we decided to replicate the most recent experiment (8) in which excess heat was reported to increase with voltage. Our results do not confirm reality of excess heat." Ref. 8 is Cirillo, Dattilo and Iorio (ICCF-11, 2004), COP 1.31-1.41 at 350 V. - Method: P_out = (dm/dt) x 2260 + P_loss, with the loss term calibrated. - Results: mean COP 1.00, standard deviation 0.02; "COP ... at 350 V was 1.03. As it turns out none of these COPs is significantly different from 1.00." - On Naudin: "The COP of the cold fusion reactor of Naudin (CFR1.1), for example, was reported as 1.85 at 150 V and about 2.5 A. The electrolyte used in CFR was exactly the same as in (8)." - On possible error sources the authors name: unnoticed loss of electrolyte by splashing from an open vessel, and "invisible droplets of foam, mixed with steam" (foaming possibly from CO2 formed at boiling), either of which "could possibly create an illusion of a voltage-dependent excess heat". "Splashing of the electrolyte also becomes more significant at higher voltages." - Their Discussion says they "confirm findings reported in (6)"; ref. 6 in their list is Naudin's low/medium power page (cfrtpwr.htm), whose low-power run gave about 0.99. The reference numbering in the text and the list may be offset (ref. 7 is listed as Little, Puthoff and Little, Pt-electrolyte discharge), so which work they mean is uncertain; read the full PDF before citing. - They point to EarthTech's replication of Naudin (see 2026-10-09-earthtech-wayback.md).

Mizuno, Chung, Sesftel and Aoki, "Generation of Heat and Products During Plasma Electrolysis" (ICCF-11, Marseille, 2004)

[web] https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MizunoTgenerationa.pdf. The originator's own later statement of the principle and of its reproducibility: non-Faraday hydrogen "sometimes produces more than 80 times as much hydrogen as normal electrolysis does", but "there have been few claimed replications of excess hydrogen, even in rare cases in which excess heat is claimed. In most cases, no excess heat or hydrogen is observed." Bears on claim 4 (Naudin calls the effect "fully replicable"; Mizuno in 2004 describes it as rare).

Mizuno and Toriyabe, "Anomalous energy generation during conventional electrolysis" (ICCF-12, 2005)

[web] http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MizunoTanomalouse.pdf. An explosive event in a 0.2 M K2CO3 cell with a tungsten cathode; estimated heat "800 times higher than input power" up to the event. Related work (same electrolyte and cathode metal as Naudin's CFR); not a plasma-mode run.