Mike the paper I cited uses pressurized hydrogen inside a pourous nickel tube not "wire" which is why I consider
It a high circulation source for fractional hydrogen. Wire would be a simple surface layer reaction between the catalyst and the electrolyte. Arata represents an opposite extreme with nested Pd reactors saturating hydrogen or its isotopes but the saturated gas has less reason to move- yes I know gas by definition moves rapidly due to gas law/HUP but my point is diatomic f/h may find itself confined by change in casimir force and a larger circulation pattern could force the issue. Regards Fran on Sun, 20 Jun 2010 06:30: Mike Carrell said The Thermacore work was seminal to Mills' Blacklight Power. The cathode was 40 lb. of nickel wire with potassium carbonate as the electrolyte in H2O. The reaction is a change in the state of the hydrogen atoms catalyzed by potassium ions. See www.blacklightpower.com for latest developments, which include solid catalysts and reactors yielding repeatable 50 kW power bursts. Recent work by Mills suggests that excess heat seen in electrolytic cells is in part to due to a hydrogen or deuterium autocatalytic reaction as delineated in recent Mills papers. These reactions are not the ones used in BLP's march to commercialization as outlined in the website.
