----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen A. Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arata's gas-loaded double-structured cathode
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.
Arata cathodes were used by Mike McKubre at SRI a few years ago. My understanding is that McKubre attempted to fabricate the cathodes himself [in SRI's facilities] withou success. It is no accident that Arata's colleague was head of the metallurgy department at the university. Palladium is notoriously difficult to machine and weld. Making bidder cathodes is interesting, and the technique of fabrication could probably be mastered. Note that fundamentally it is a technique of gas loading of extremely fractured particulate surfaces. The particles are only a few hundred atoms in any dimension.
Mike Carrell
