Thanks to Ron Clark for noticing this important detail. In the Mizuno Table entitled: “Rub surface of nickel mesh with Pd rod” which is from the earlier work going back a few years…
Mizuno ran some tests with both H2 and D2 to look for differences at various pressures - using the nickel mess with the rubbed nano layer of Pd. In one of the runs at H2 with 4400 Pa pressure, Mizuno saw significant thermal gain with plain hydrogen, not deuterium. This indicates to me that the operative mechanism for gain is NOT nuclear fusion. In these runs the most energetic single result was actually with plain H2. It was not as robust as the later runs with D2 at very low pressure - which are the subject of the new paper - but it can tell us something very important about the operative mechanism (unless there are two different mechanisms). Basically – this effect in highly unlikely to be based on nuclear fusion. It could be bosonic - as H2 as a molecule is a boson but there is no fusion and no radioactivity so this mechanism is most likely to be a dense hydrogen effect. Jones.
