I wrote:
To be fair, I should point out that as far as I know no one has
replicated the latest claims by Dash & Zhang, and their method is
significantly different from other cold fusion claims.
Cancel that.
I was thinking of Dash's earlier work with titanium sheets. I don't
recall other reports of heat from titanium. Zhang & Dash are working
with sheets of palladium in heavy water and sulfuric acid. Two recent papers:
Zhang, W.-S. and J. Dash. Excess Heat Reproducibility And Evidence Of
Anomalous Elements After Electrolysis In Pd/D2O+H2SO4 Electrolytic
Cells. in The 13th International Conference on Condensed Matter
Nuclear Science. 2007. Sochi, Russia.
Dash, J. and D.S. Silver. Surface Studies After Loading Metals With
Hydrogen And/Or Deuterium. in The 13th International Conference on
Condensed Matter Nuclear Science. 2007. Sochi, Russia.
The geometry is a little unusual and not many people have used acid
electrolytes, but some have. The high temperature should not be a
problem with a Seebeck calorimeter.
I need to read what the Littles did, before gabbing about this. Here
I have done what I always criticize the skeptics for doing:
commenting without doing my homework first!
- Jed
