Horace Heffner wrote:
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>.
But EarthTech never succeeds in reproducing anything, and it always
turns out they've done the experiment so differently from the original
that there was no hope of its working ... right? Or do I have them
mixed up with somebody?
Maybe this time it was different....
