At 12:59 AM 7/15/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote:
This was the conclusion I arrived at as well, after reading Lou's
many posts. And this was the thought I tried to convey to Guenter
in his "600C eCat thread".
Basically, if your NAE is a transition metal lattice; i.e. Cracks
(Storms), or Patches (W&L) or any other structures (Hagelstein), you
would not be able to achieve High Temp operation. With Carbon
Nanostructures such as nanotubes and graphene, thermal stability of
your NAE is not a problem. These Carbon nanostructures are just
amazing. They seem to have all the critical ingredients to host a NAE.
Carbon nanostructure-based LENR, which I call LENR2, is the way to go.
It's an interesting idea, particularly if Storms is correct, that the
substance of the confining lattice (material) is not important, but
only the cavity size. However, what is the size? Could carbon
nanostructures be made with the necessary dimensions?
An approach would be to make a pile of carbon material that includes
a wide range of sizes, and add deuterium, say. Does anything unusual
happen? Any heating, any helium? Even if heating is not measurable,
if it sits there long enough, enough helium might accumulate to be
measurable, compared to controls.
And then one could ratchet down to controlled sizes, to find what is optimal.
