Robin van Spaandonk
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:43:14 -0700
In reply to Michel Jullian's message of Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:03:44 +0200: Hi, [snip] >Robin, > >(replying on-list, in case you forgot to change the address line or are unable >to get through again) > >0.04g D2 is 0.04g D, and D is 2g/mol, so that should be 0.04/2 mol * 6E23 >atoms/mol = 1.2 E22 atoms D, which makes the energy per atom half what you >said, but since the actual time is really 100 hours (~4 days) i.e. the total >energy is really twice what you said, the two errors conveniently cancel each >other, and the observed heat is indeed 187 eV / absorbed D atom (assuming >Arata et al made no error in their 1W estimation). > >However it is probable that only a tiny part of the absorbed D is consumed in >the putative anomalous reactions (in such experiments one retrieves roughly >the same amount of D2 at deloading than was put in at loading doesn't one?), >in which case nuclear type energies of the order of MeVs per _reacting_ D are >more likely than Mills energies of the order of 100s of eV per reacting D. > >Michel [snip] Agreed, however my main point was that it was way more than normal chemical energy. I offered the Mills comment more as a coincidental fact. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk The shrub is a plant.