Stephen A. Lawrence <sa...@pobox.com> wrote: Could they no longer get the *original* *cell* to work, or was it just new > cells that didn't work? >
As far as I know they used the same cell, but different cathodes. In cold fusion, when you fail to reproduce most of the time the problem is in the cathode material. Typically they cannot re-use a cathode because it is used up in destructive analysis, with something like a layer by layer SEM. It has been a long time since I talked to them about this. I do not recall the details. " It should be noted that all of these experiments used the same > palladium ingot > purchased by Lautzenhiser and Eisner in Houston. " > As McKubre and others have noted, sometimes a sample from the same ingot or wire has very different loading and performance characteristics. - Jed
