Re: [Vo]:lutetium "LENR"

2023-03-15 Thread Robin
In reply to  Jones Beene's message of Wed, 15 Mar 2023 18:10:22 + (UTC):
Hi,
[snip]
>It is too bad that Lu is so damned expensive. Apparently it is the most 
>expensive element at many suppliers

That's strange, it is way more common in the Earth's crust than e.g. Rhenium.
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[Vo]:lutetium "LENR"

2023-03-15 Thread Jones Beene
Recently it was mentioned here (Axil ?) that a new room temp superconductor was 
claimed by a group at  Rochester U. 

I lost the post. The material in question is nitrogen-doped lutetium hydride 
and it demonstrates superconductivity at 21 °C (69.5 °F) at 145,000 psi. The 
pressure may sound high, but it’s orders of magnitude lower than prior art and 
achievable in an interesting way that could be synergistic to fusion.

lutetium "LENR" is therefore a topic that comes to mind ... somewhat based on a 
connection to palladium hydride. IOW there could be a connection between the 
two fields - LENR and HTSC - although it could well be coincidental

There appears to be some trickle of prior work on lutetium LENR based on a 
google search. George Miley was apparently interested in one aspect

Does anyone know of ongoing work on the topic LENR using LuH ?

It is too bad that Lu is so damned expensive. Apparently it is the most 
expensive element at many suppliers