Looking at Table 10 in the document cited, it
would appear that Boron is the smoking gun, not
silver. In fact Pd-Ag never worked but Pd-B worked 7 out of 8 times.
Robert Dorr
At 07:31 AM 10/29/2016, you wrote:
Fire up a rousing version of "The William Tell
Overture" in order to appreciate the latest
contention (you heard it first on vortex) that
SILVER (not the horse but the shiny element 47)
is the almost-hidden key to success in cold
fusion... and also the Mills effect as well ! Or
is it a coincidence that Randy absolutely
depends on silver in his recent announcements?
At first, the large amount of silver used in the
Sun Cell was said to be an electrical contact,
but now Ag is admitted to be the only catalyst
necessary for hydrogen redundancy/reactivity.
The only parameter which is required for the
reaction to self-sustain, according to Mills own
statement (see the latest video on YT) - is
sufficient vapor pressure of silver in the
presence of hydrogen. Thats right silver is the only catalyst needed.
Imagine that
but now imagine it in the context
of cold fusion. Palladium and silver are very
similar and often found together in nature. A
silver-palladium alloy is superior to palladium
for hydrogen diffusion or as a membrane
purification. The palladium alloy Pd77 Ag23 is
considered the best alloy for hydrogen
diffusion, with technical superiority pure
metal. The best alloy from J-M is called Type A and contains 23% silver.
Martin Fleischmann was adamant about the need
for silver. This was a perennial subject on
vortex for years in the past and Jed Rothwells
comments are worth reviewing. "Type A" is the
palladium J-M developed in the 1930s for their
hydrogen filters. Fleischmann sez: "Look at the
data from Miles. What does it tell you? When
Uncle Martin gives you palladium, it works. When
you get the palladium from somewhere else, it
doesn't work! Why don't people pay attention to
that?!?" He was referring to Table 10 in this
document, which -- as Martin says -- no one seems to pay any attention to:
<http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MilesManomalousea.pdf>http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MilesManomalousea.pdf
It is now looking like the element silver, which
adjoins Pd in the periodic table, could be the
key to excess heat in both cold fusion and the
Mills effect. But why? It is not likely that it
works in a different way for Mills than it does for P&F.
One thing is superconductivity. It is known in
the early nineties that Pd-D is superconductive
when loaded above 70%, but the highest
transition state is found in the Pd-Ag alloy
known as Type A, which is well above pure Pd.
Yup
the same alloy we have been talking about. Coincidence?
Silver also has numerous metastable states with
the most stable being Ag-108m with a half-life
of 418 years. If you subscribe to the virtual
neutron of Widom-Larsen or the DDL, or the UDH
of Holmlid, then silver would possibly go to the
108m metastable isotope by absorption of dense
hydrogen and it could absorb as a halo nucleus.
Ag-108m is said to have an extremely high spin
state of 6 (but I cannot find a citation for that).
In conclusion, if you follow the cutting edge
between LENR and Mills, and can find the one
overwhelming detail of similarity - then it is
most likely silver and the fact that the gain is
coming from Ag either as a catalyst or as a reactant.
In Mills, silver is catalyst but in LENR it is
reactant. It will be interesting to see which
end-result prevails in the end. Maybe there is room for both.
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