Alain Sepeda wrote:
Whether PdD can fuel the future is maybe a premature question.
I see PdD as a lab-rat technology to investigate the phenomenon and
build a theory.
Once we have the theory, guessing from what I see already, I feel that
Pd won't be required, and could be replaced by nanostructured
material... other metal, alloys, graphene-like structures, why not
enzyms, dirty plasmas, could be more performant.
This is accurate insight with the proviso that palladium could still be
required, even with graphene, but possibly optimized as much as twenty-fold.
One major problem is that there is no systematic plan to integrate past
results and move forward in an optimized and well-funded way. IH could
have been that vehicle, had Rossigate not happened.
For instance there is good evidence that deuterium loading correlates
with excess heat, and actual proof that an alloy of 95% nickel and 5%
palladium loads more deuterium than palladium alone (from Ahern's Arata
replication). Yet few are aware of this detail - and no supplier offers
the optimized 95/5 alloy for purchase. I would bet that no one in the
field is currently using this finding.
In the case of an alloy containing only a small Pd percentage, the
rarity and high cost of palladium is marginalized.
