Actually, my use of the term 'equilibrium' is probably technically incorrect in this situation since they say the systems they study are non-equilibrium stationary systems. What I mean is that if enough time passed then any heat associated with absorption would spread throughout the system and not be capable of maintaining a temperature difference.
More recently they claim to be able to do it now at room temperature and produce a bigger temperature difference: http://jointheparadigm.com/epicatalysis-at-room-temperature-preliminary-results/ However their recently observed temperature difference of 0.1C is still small when compared to so called "cold fusion" systems. Harry On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:33 AM, H Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > If equilibrium conditions were met shouldn't the contribution of heat > from adsorption vanish? > > Harry > > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Teslaalset <robbiehobbiesh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I just wonder whether they took into account that Tungsten at 2000K and 1 >> Torr likely absorbs Hydrogen. >> Absorption of Hydrogen into metal lattices is an exothermic mechanism. >> Nothing mentioned in their report. >> >> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Interesting how similar the description is to the Casimir effect. >>> >>> >> >
