At 11:37 AM 3/1/2011, Horace Heffner wrote:
On Mar 1, 2011, at 6:01 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
For information on the BARC commercial electrolysis device, use the
Google box to look up "Milton Roy."
- Jed
If you google (Milton Roy electrolysis) then lots of references show up.
This is the shame about that work: they did not look for helium. At
that point, tritium and neutrons were considered to be the definitive
markers for fusion, based on the normal d-d reaction. It was already
obvious that this reaction could not explain the excess heat, that
neutrons, in particular, were suppressed, if they were present at
all. It wasn't until about three years later that work showing helium
was the ash became available.
They were not measuring excess heat and they were not measuring
helium, the two confirmed markers.
However, they did see enough to suspect that tritium and neutrons
were correlated. That is suspected by others.
The Milton Roy device seems to have used cathodes that were silver
with plated palladium, which could be expected to work for a time,
possibly even better than pure palladium, while remaining affordable.
From the SPAWAR work, I'd go for gold cathodes, and plate them with
palladium. Or I'd use gold-plated silver wire, then plated with
palladium, it might work similarly. There should be many more
neutrons, though still only a tiny level compared to helium. If the
neutron-tritium correlation is real, then, there should be much more
tritium, which is much easier to detect.
