-----Original Message----- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax > Shanahan's cigarette-lighter explanation does not factor for the lack of excess heat when doing this with hydrogen.
Well, at the risk of defending a "repulsive" argument, many experiments do show excess heat with hydrogen, including some of the Arata experiments. To get the "repulsive" punage, you will have to read all the way through this - sorry for the lack of an instant smiley. However, with H2 the heat generated is most likely NOT nuclear. With D2 some of the heat may not be nuclear, either. Excess heat with H2 or D2 could be related to Mills "shrinkage" or to ZPE. With D2, it is even possible that actual fusion may be a time reversed QM "balancing act" and only replaces energy lost in other methods. Here is a SciNews article, recently updated, which gives hope that "Casimir cycling" for gain is ultimately doable: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091210153657.htm ... indicating at least that some high-priced brain power at DoE and Argonne believe that Casimir attraction can be manipulated into repulsion. That would be the key to finding a useable asymmetry in the heat of adsorption, at this geometric level. The ultimate source of energy would be ZPE. It could be as simple as rapidly cycling an electric field in which the fully loaded nanoparticles are allowed to express whatever Casimir asymmetry can be engineered into the nanostructure ... "As characteristic device dimensions shrink to the nanoscale, the effects of the attractive Casimir force becomes more pronounced making very difficult to control nano-devices. This is a technological challenge that need to be addressed before the full potential of NEMS devices can be demonstrated" ... "The goal is to not only to limit its [Casimir force] attractive properties, but also to make it repulsive." Not that Shanahan's ignorance of the repulsive Casimir makes his net ignorance of the entire field of LENR any less repulsive :) Jones
