Peter,
Does your comment regarding reproducibility also apply to Brian
Ahern's baking of nano powder in regular air? Do you think he would do better
to bake in a vacuum? Would even inert gases like helium be inferior to vacuum?
The recent thread on different alloying methods of spin melting, sputtering,
electroless plating and deposition already suggests the preparation is just as
important as material selection in creating these active sites but now it
appears these sites, from the moment of creation, must be protected from
contamination or they will simply self destruct. I am still of the old "MAHG"
school of thought where the initial energy source is thought to be ZPE /
dynamic Casimir effect which repeatedly translates the orbitals of whatever
gas molecules are trapped at the active sites in the changing Casimir
geometry/changing energy density. The Haisch-Moddel patent suggests there is
something to be gained even when applying noble gas to these sites based on
Lamb Pinch but I don't think this would be considered a destructive force since
the geometry is much less active and the endless gas circulation is controlled
through a large surface area of alternating Casimir and non Casimir geometry
forcing endless LESSER translations in both directions as compared to hydrogen
which would need smaller geometry and alternate between H1 and H2. I think the
Haisch Moddel theory of operation being based on noble gas indirectly supports
your perspective on gas loading density being a misleading metric - a
coincidence of bulk properties that doesn't apply to powder.
My point is that we may need to start testing matrices of
different baking procedures with different cover gases or vacuum conditions
along with the different alloying methods and secret catalysts already being
discussed. It may be that the real difficulty is in maintaining these active
sites once created and if we solve that issue we could find the sites are being
created and self destructing all around us all the time but so reactive they
simply vanish faster than we can detect.
Regards
Fran
From: Peter Gluck [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 2:21 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Ahern in Next Big Future
Jed, I agree with our vision re. the competition between bulk and surface of Pd
for D. It is about active sites on the surface call them NAE if you wish. The
thirst of bulk for deuterium has a negative influence on the functionality of
the active sites and therefore the conditions necessary
for an usable energy source are not fulfilled:
INTENSITY- depends on the density of the active sites;
REPRODUCIBILITY- if the active sites are inactivated by
gases different from deuterium, good-by reproductibility!
CONTINUITY- active sites are dynamic, they have to be generated constantly for
long time
It seems the fact that cold fusion (largo sensu) was discovered in palladium
was historical bad luck to the field.
Peter
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Jed Rothwell
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
See:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/06/brian-ahern-getting-8-watts-in-low.html
This article includes some quotes which I assume are from Ahern made during his
MIT presentation. I wish people would attribute quotes more carefully. Some
quotes:
"A rough calibration suggests that the 30 grams of hydrated nanopowder is
putting out 5 watts of excess power."
Rather too rough, in my opinion. I wish he would use a Seebeck calorimeter or
something like that.
"Yesterday Peter Gluck suggested that the relationship between loading and
excess power may be a myth. This seemed to be true for electrolysis with Pd and
heavy water where loading levels exceeding 0.9 D/M were a prerequisite for
observing excess power."
I think Peter overstates this. Loading is correlated with excess power in bulk
palladium-deuterium systems, especially with electrolysis. However that does
not mean it correlates with gas loaded powder systems, or with hydrogen. In
other words, the loading is necessary with bulk material, but that may be for
some secondary reason. The high loading triggers unknown condition X, and
condition X in turn triggers the heat. With gas loaded powder, condition X
occurs by itself. My guess is that with bulk material, without high loading,
the deuterons are not "presented" to the surface from underneath, and for some
reason that is necessary.
- Jed
--
Dr. Peter Gluck
Cluj, Romania
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
