Ed is quite right Michael, as a matter of fact the electrolytic method is so effective at pushing D into Pd that the pressure inside a hollow Pd cathode rises towards astronomical values during electrolysis, until the bottle eventually explodes, however thick its walls may be.
Pressures of tens of thousands of atmospheres have been reached this way, and much higher values could be reached theoretically, as discussed in the original FP paper (they calculated 10^26 atmospheres IIRC) An analogy for this interesting phenomenon of electrolytic compression would be myriads of tiny syringes, one for each "pore" of the cathode surface, each pushing astronomically high pressure D into its pore. Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edmund Storms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Vortex" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:05 PM Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion, Wet or Dry?] > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion, Wet or Dry? > Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 13:04:24 -0600 > From: Edmund Storms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: Energy K. Systems > To: Nick Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Before you get carried away with this idea, consider that electrolytic > action, under water, supplies deuterium ions to the surface at a very > high activity (pressure). As a result, loading of Pd with D is much > easier using this method than is any other method. ...
