Cool paper! Do you know if the effect is as reproducible as it sounds?
The paper makes it sounds like he just throws the switch, and the D2
with Pd reactor performs on demand. In that way, it sounds almost like
Patterson's bead cells, but without the "black magic" required to make
the special beads.
I was puzzled by the refs to Japan's experiments in this area in 1933.
What was that all about, do you know?
I also seem to recall an Italian researcher started to pursue this
general area (gas phase D2 with finely divided Pd, in a "passive"
cell) way, way back when but then dropped it in favor of PF-cell
experiments, because funding was only available for the latter at that
time. Or have I, as so often happens, remembered that wrong? (Or is
the Italian gas-phase work written up on the intro page on
LENR-CANR....?) IIRC those initial results seemed pretty promising.
Jed Rothwell wrote:
At ICCF-12, Arata described a gas-loaded version of his double
structured cathode. His lecture slides and some text are available here:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ArataYdevelopmenb.pdf
It may be a little unclear from this text, but this implementation of
the double structured cathode appears to be much more practical than
the liquid electrolyte version, and it produces high power density.
The device he described at ICCF-12 have about 1 cc of palladium black.
He is now having a corporation fabricate any new, larger version which
will have about 100 cc of palladium black. It should be ready in a few
months.
- Jed
