Hi Mark,
Your quotes from the citation brings to mind the mystery connection to
HTSC (high temperature superconductivity).
Since the early days there was thought to be some kind of vague and
undefined connection between LENR and HTSC. This is due primarily to the
fact that palladium hydride is superconductive but palladium isn't. The
quote you mentioned adds an explanation in the form of lattice
vibrations. The problem is the transition temperature.
BTW - for those who are not aware of the history of this - Brian Ahern
(who was a USAF researcher at the time, specializing in SC)
independently discovered Pd-H superconductivity many years ago - only to
find that it had already been reported by someone else (and patented).
It is still ignored as a factor for gain in "cold fusion" due to the
aforementioned problem of transition temperature. This is probably one
of the details that got Brian hooked on LENR - even before P&F and he
also discovered that an alloy of nickel and palladium performs much
better than palladium alone for excess heat.
For the heck of it, I did a quicky search to see if "nickel hydride" has
ever been reported with SC properties. This begs to be part of the
LENR-CANR library even if the rationale between LENR and HTSC is foggy.
As it turns out - W-L also picked up on the cross-connection and found
the same citation I found:
*Superconductivity in the palladium-hydrogen and
palladium-nickel-hydrogen systems**
**Authors* - First published: 16 June 1972 by
T. Skoskiewicz
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pssa.2210110253/abstract
The paper is a poor scan, I am trying to find a digital version. This is
almost 45 years old ! Why is it seldom mentioned?
This is a fine blog article from EM Smith on the situation (which I had
read but forgot), It is worth a reread.
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2015/05/24/widom-larsen-superconducting-hydrides-and-directed-speculation/
MarkI-ZeroPoint wrote:
Vorts,
Haven’t had time to do much sci-surfing in 2016, but as is quite
common in my life, when I get a nagging feeling to do it, I come
across stuff that could be very significant…
Happened to go to physorg.com today when eating lunch at work and came
across this article:
“Laser pulses help scientists tease apart complex electron
interactions”
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-laser-pulses-scientists-complex-electron.html
Title doesn’t really sound all that breakthrough, but for some reason
I clicked on it and came across what could be the mechanism of action
in LENR reactions which gently sheds the energy to the lattice instead
of ejecting high-energy particles, i.e., the ‘expected’ mechanism. To
quote the article:
“But they also discovered another, unexpected signal-which they say
represents a distinct form of _extremely efficientenergy loss
<http://phys.org/tags/energy+loss/>at a particular energy level and
timescale_ between the other two.
"We see a very strong and peculiar interaction between the excited
electrons and the lattice where the _electrons are losing most of
their energy very rapidly in a coherent, non-random way_," Rameau
said. At this special energy level, he explained, _the electrons
appear to be interacting with lattice atoms all vibrating at a
particular frequency-like a tuning fork emitting a single note_. When
all of the electrons that have the energy required for this unique
interaction have given up most of their energy, they start to cool
down more slowly by hitting atoms more randomly without striking the
"resonant" frequency, he said.
"We know now that this interaction doesn't just switch on when the
material becomes a superconductor; it's actually always there,"
Although electron-based and not nucleus-based, it still makes me
wonder if this is one step in a multi-step process of energy transfer…
nucleus to electrons to lattice.
It is in a very narrow energy range, and is obviously some kind of
resonance (coherent) condition… which also explains why it’s so hard
to reproduce. Wonder if the narrow energy kink is anywhere close to
_FrankZ_’s 1.094Mhz-meter?
BTW, the research also used a setup which I’ve been ranting about for
years… the electron stroboscope.
"By varying the time between the 'pump' and 'probe' laser pulses we
can build up a stroboscopic record of what happens - a movie of what
this material looks like from rest through the violent interaction to
how it settles back down,"
Merry Christmas to All,
-mark iverson
