Anomalous Excess Heat — Electrochemical Cells Beyond Conventional Chemistry

The claim occupies an unusual position in the corpus. The anomalous heat observations have been made by credentialled researchers using dedicated calorimetric equipment over thirty-five years. They have not been definitively refuted — no study has demonstrated that the reported observations are entirely attributable to measurement error, and the Berliner et al. (2019) study explicitly declined to make that claim. At the same time, the observations have not been reproduced on demand by independent laboratories following a shared, agreed protocol. The strongest quantitative claim in the record — SRI International's loading-fraction correlation (INST-002) — has not been independently confirmed under fully controlled conditions, and the Storms preparation protocols (INST-003) that claim to improve reproducibility have not been validated against a rigorous baseline. The pressure state is FRAGMENTING: the phenomenon has neither been confirmed as real nor definitively attributed to measurement artefact, and no agreed controlled protocol yet exists that would let a null result be accepted as meaningful (BN-001).