From: Bob Higgins Mathieu Valat has some LiAlD4 given to him by Jean-Paul Biberian. I asked Mathieu if he would be willing to send some to Parkhomov to increase the possibility that Parkhomov would run an experiment with D enrichment to look for increase in excess power.
Bob, Brian Ahern tried the deuterated material. You might want to contact him for the details, but basically LiAlD4 did not work in his tube kiln setup, nor did the regualr AP mix. It could be that the tube kiln itself does not function well as a replacement for directly wound resistance wire - for an unknown basic reason, no matter what material is used. This could be because the electric field of the heater wire is more important than the heat itself – or some combination of the two. Naturally, we have been led to think the heat is the key – but clearly the key is not simply heat alone.
