On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Haiko Lietz <h...@haikolietz.de> wrote: >>>> A kind of homeopathy? > > >>> I guess it shows that flux is important. See the curves here: >>> >>> >>> http://newenergytimes.com/v2/government/NASA/20111209NASA-Fralick-GRC-LENR-Workshop.pdf >>> (#12) > > >> sort of like tidal power where you can generate electricity during the >> incoming and outgoing tide? > > > I think so. You can see in the NASA slides that the heat production > decreases with time. In the beginning flux creates more fusion events. But > as more and more deuterium is out of the bulk no more heat is produced.
Michael McKubre calls it "breathing" in the Pd cathode. The greatest excess heat is produced while the concentration changes in the loaded cell between 80 and 90 percent up or down. At some point the cathode stops breathing and cannot be "revived" without treatment of the cathode. T
