Here is an interview with Peter at the ACS conference:
<http://io9.com/5499139/an-interview-with-peter-hagelstein>http://io9.com/5499139/an-interview-with-peter-hagelstein
This is linked in from:
<http://io9.com/5498099/cold-fusion--will-it-save-the-world-or-be-forgotten>http://io9.com/5498099/cold-fusion--will-it-save-the-world-or-be-forgotten
Some comments I have not heard before:
". . . It also tells us what to look for in a material as to what
makes it special, to make the cold fusion excess heat process work.
What we've found recently -- very recently -- is that bulk palladium
cannot host a 2D molecule, but if the palladium has a vacancy, it
lowers the electron density and 2D can form. And very recently we
found not only can it form, but there's a little cage that it has a
possibility of fitting in, if the loading is just right. If the
monovacancy has the right occupation and so forth. These conditions
under which the monovacancy can host the 2D molecule seem to very
consistent with the onset of the excess power in the experiments. So
that's exciting to us!
The same detailed calculation that found this effect in palladium
seems to show a lesser version of it in gold. One of my friends has a
result, where he thinks he might have seen some excess heat as a
preliminary result in a [gold coated cathode]. That's a result that
needs confirming, but if its confirmed, then maybe we're beginning to
get the ability to maybe do the computation of the material to find out. . . ."
I guess this means Au-D. That would be a new approach. I have not
heard of any work with Au since Ohmori worked with Au-H. He observed
pretty convincing excess heat. I do not know of any replications. His
electrochemistry was the cleanest and most exacting I have have ever
seen. He had cathodes that ran for months that I thought were fresh
out of the aqua regia. Astounding! I doubt many people could
replicate the cleanliness, never mind the heat.
Au-H and Au-D are examples of unexplored alleys in the exploding
parameter space McKubre talked about during the ACS press conference.
- Jed
