This abstract below is from http://www.iscmns.org/work10/Abstracts.pdf
This is a most confusing and self-contradictory abstract. The samples came from Brian Ahern and were the same which he found to be active in his EPRI report (still not public). They were small samples according to Brian and should have arrived partially loaded - but I wish the entire paper was available to see those details. Biberian says "hydrogen did not come out of the powder under vacuum at any temperature." But he does not address how much went in, and it should have been only micrograms- since it should have arrived partially loaded - given so little comes out under vacuum at any temperature. There was no trigger - so this 10 kJ could be largely anomalous gain - except for the chemical energy of absorption, which should be a fractional eV per atom - but again if the material came already nearly loaded, what is going on? Thus, there are details which are not clear from the abstract - which makes it sound like the gain was from absorption itself. If so, that is still impressive since combustion with O2 would provide only about 1.5 eV per atom. Does anyone have the entire paper? Anomalous excess heat during absorption of hydrogen in: Pd-Ni-Zr02 nano Powder Jean-Paul Biberian Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France Absorption of hydrogen at room temperature in a Pd-Ni-ZrO2 nano powder produced 10 kJ of energy, equivalent to an energy of 4.1 eV per hydrogen atom. At higher temperatures, no excess heat was observed, probably because the hydrogen did not come out of the powder under vacuum at any temperature. When the cell was opened to air, the powder became red hot due to the oxidation of the hydrogen by the oxygen of the atmosphere. After replacing the powder in the calorimeter, no excess heat was observed at any temperature. In this talk, we will describe the mass flow calorimeter that can operate from room temperature to 700°C.
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