Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: Now, to take up your second question, should it be possible to build a wet > CF cell which gives enough thermal boost due to the PF effect so that you > can get something useful out of it? Jed and Ed Storms have, IIRC, both > alleged that it should be possible. You seal the cell and pressurize it, > so it can run toasty warm, and you do something nobody's figured out yet > with the electrodes to get the reaction rate up really high . . . >
Sure. If you spent a ton of money and did all of this, you could generate electricity and maintain the electrochemical reaction. It would be a pointless tour de force. It would not prove anything that a calorimeter does not prove. I do not know any researchers who would consider doing this. They figure that people who do not believe calorimetry would not believe this demonstration either. They have a good point. If someone revealed a device of this nature, Mary Yugo would surely say it must be fake, with hidden wires. > Frankly, it seems to me that starting with an electrolysis cell is > starting with one foot in a bucket of cement if you want useful energy out > . . . > That is a good characterization. I do not know any researchers who thought that a electrolytic bulk-Pd-D2O system could ever be made into a practical source of energy. It is a laboratory tool to explore the phenomenon. It resembles Faraday's first electric generator (a hand-cranked homopolar generator). The skeptics' demand that it be made into a practical device, or a self-sustaining device, is analogous to demanding that Faraday power a railroad engine. - Jed
