One more arcane point on this apparent conflict between Mills and Holmlid: For Holmlid the ultradense species occurs in one step and its chemical binding energy is in the range of -50 eV maximum.
If we go back 20 years to Thermacore, and some of the most convincing work ever done in LENR, there is one test that has always troubled me. Thermacore had nickel capillary tubes tested at Lehigh University following a very long run with hydrogen. They were using some kind of spectral line fluorescence testing. What appeared was a very strong UV emission peak at 50 eV. Mills had never been able to show strong peaks like this and he never commented on Thermacore's finding. Plus, the UV peak showed up in what was essentially ash - not as a product of shrinkage. Nevertheless, Thermacore said it was proof of the 54.4 eV line, even though it clearly was over 4 eV lower and was not a product of shrinkage but instead a product in the leftover nickel. This is all from memory but in retrospect, what Lehigh found in the used capillary tubes could have been evidence of Holmlid's dense hydrogen - as it reinflated ! Jones
