Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
No. This pressure is created by both hydrogen
and deuterium. The high pressure mentioned is
created by electrolysis with hydrogen or
deuterium generated at the surface of a hollow palladium rod.
What experiment does this reference? Arata's
double-structured cathode? The pressure is not
all that high in that one, although it was high
enough to rupture the hollow cylinder at SRI.
Extremely high pressure is achieved by
electrolysis at the surface of an electrode, in a
microscopic domain. According to some sources it
is 10E47 atmospheres (Mizuno, p. 101). I believe
the maximum pressure in a cylinder can be
achieved as easily with a pump hydraulically as
with electrolysis. The limiting factor is the
strength of the cylinder. Arata's double
structured cathode results do not depend on brute
force loading, nor do his more recent gas loading results.
The state is always associated with a
catalyst and we must therefore assume the
energy behind this effect is supplied by the cavity
Is this assuming too much?
I think so. There are cavities involved, likely.
However, they are not supplying any energy,
apparently, rather they *configure* the reacting ingredient or ingredients.
There is no significant volume of cavities in a
successful cold fusion cathode. If there are
cavities, the cathode will not produce the
effect. It has to be an intact lattice. A sample
with cavities will bend or expand much more than an intact lattice; see:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEhowtoprodu.pdf
In a successful cathode, the deuterium is in
solution with the metal, with deuterons
interspersed in the metal lattice. The exact
configuration -- with how many deuterons at each
tetrahedral and octahedral site -- is disputed.
- Jed
