No Abd, Shanahan may be wrong on many points but the "equivalent to many atmospheres of hydrogen gas pressure exposure" assertion is correct, it is even a gross understatement, in the P&F original paper they computed something like 10^26 atm IIRC. That's electrolytic compression: if you use a hollow Pd cathode, the pressure inside will rise to tens of thousands of atmospheres, until the palladium envelope bursts. It has been done.
Michel 2010/5/8 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]>: > The kicker is this "equivalent to many > atmospheres of hydrogen gas pressure exposure." No, the D2 pressure at the > cathode is roughly one atmosphere through the whole experiment.
