At 03:06 PM 5/12/2010, Jed Rothwell wrote:
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.
Hey, I'm no expert on this, at all. I was
skeptical about the *very* high pressures, but I thought you had confirmed it.
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).
And what does this mean?
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.
The entire palladium lattice can be considered a collection of cavities.
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.
Yes. My suspicion is that overloading is
required, but this could be transient, i.e., a
lattice might be loaded to 1:1, but then a shock
wave or other phenomenon causes some level of
overloading locally. Loading generally refers to
the bulk; the nuclear effect is apparently at the
surface. Subsurface conditions can affect surface
conditions, which would be the connection.
