Jed, (sorry for the late reply, finding it hard to keep up with the high volume of postings lately, could "power contributors" make attempts at conciseness please?)
2009/11/18 Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>: > I forgot to mention a critical factor. Heat stimulation of cold fusion > reactions seems to occur remarkably slowly. Fleischmann and Biberian both > told me they used a heat pulse to trigger the boil off reaction. It worked > something like this: > > Turn up electrolysis power for 3 minutes. The temperature starts to rise. > Turn the power back down again. Temperature stabilizes, starts to fall . . . > Wait for it . . . Wait for it . . . Minutes later the cell starts to > self-heat, as positive feedback kicks in. It ramps up slowly, over several > minutes, and finally reaches the "climax" boil off (as Biberian calls it). Interesting! It may not be the heat pulse per se that triggered the LENRs. When you turn the electrolysis power back down (to a non zero initial value previously maintained for a long time, right?) after having turned it up for several minutes, you get desorption don't you? This, plus the flickering hot spots observed on the (probably desorbing) back of the Mylar backed SPAWAR cathode discussed the other day (if they are indeed CF effects which I see Horace disputes)... Any additional experimental evidence of the PF effect occurring on simultaneously desorbing and electrolyzing Pd surfaces? Michel
