On Jan 9, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
Cool! That seems like the right direction to go. I confess I didn't see that on the web site -- it looked like the "solid state" talk all just had to do with any kind of fusion taking place within a metal lattice, which would include all CF experiments I'm familiar with. Certainly it includes wet-cell electrolysis-based CF as well as gas-loaded finely-divided Pd experiments.
Oh, I forgot that the catalyst must be raised to a fairly high temperature, and then the temperature controlled so there is no run- away heat that destroys the catalyst. This does require some initial power input, and some control energy input, so the COP is not really infinite.
I don't recall this technology actually proving out upon testing, but I don't know what happened since it was a big deal in sci.physics.fusion in 1999-2000 and on vortex July 2001. I know EarthTech's replication results were negative: <http:// www.earthtech.org/experiments/index.html>.
