From: Mark Iverson
This from the comment section of the Knol page on CF... Consider "heavy fermion" superconductors The August 2009 issue of Scientific American, pg 66 at left margin, describes a 1979 discovery: "Heavy-fermion superconductors such as uranium platinum (UPt3) are remarkable by also having electrons that effectively have hundreds of times their usual mass." It might be interesting to find out more about the circumstances under which electrons can "effectively" act as if they have hundreds of times their usual mass. After all, muon-catalyzed fusion involves particles that only have 206 times the mass of an electron. An electron actually only needs to act as if it had about 50 times its usual mass to be able to catalyze fusion. This is worth keeping an eye on. The cross-connections between HTSC and LENR are numerous and have been mentioned before. Palladium hydride is superconductive. The nature of the connection is a mystery but it could be related to effectively large mass in the Cooper pair. This patent on nickel hydride superconductors is interesting in regards to a dual role of a spillover catalyst. High temperature superconductors and method United States Patent 4043809 This invention comprises a superconductive compound having the formula: Ni1-x Mx Zy wherein M is a metal which will destroy the magnetic character of nickel (preferably copper, silver or gold); Z is hydrogen or deuterium; x is 0.1 to 0.9; and y, correspondingly, 0.9 to 0.1, and method of conducting electric current with no resistance at relatively high temperature of T>1° K comprising a conductor consisting essentially of the superconducting compound noted above. Jones
