Values are found in some work substantially
higher, but it is generally consistent with a
theory that the actual reaction Q is the
deuterium value, but roughly half if the helium
is being trapped in the cathode or otherwise
escaping detection. Helium *is* apparently
trapped in the cathode, near the surface,
consistent with origin at or near the surface.
Helium is not found in the bulk of the cathode.
If helium is born near the surface with a little
kinetic energy, it will ion-implant itself in the
palladium and helium is generally not mobile in
palladium at these low temperatures. McKubre was
able to coax some or most helium out of the
cathode by cycling loading/deloading.
I've suggested dissolving the cathode to release
the helium, but this has not been done to my
knowledge. It's an area where plenty remains to be done.
For a review of the helium work, see Storms,
"Status of cold fusion (2010),"
Naturwissenschaften. There is an as-published preprint on http://lenr-canr.org.
The finding of helium correlated with heat is amply replicated. See Storms.
Storms estimates from the data that the Q is 25
+/- 5 MeV/He-4, but I haven't seen a rigorous
analysis. There is quite a bit of variability,
easily due to the difficulties in capturing all the helium.
At 04:21 PM 7/4/2012, Eric Walker wrote:
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Abd ul-Rahman
Lomax <<mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.com>a...@lomaxdesign.com> wrote:
Actual experimental results are more toward
double, the value, over 40 MeV/He-4, which very
likely reflects the difficulty in capturing all
the helium (if helium is not captured and
measured, particularly if it remains trapped in
the palladium), then there is less helium
reported, and the value of heat/helium goes up proportionally.
Abd, I find this a very interesting result. Â
What is the variability here? Â How reliable is the 40 MeV figure?
Assuming for the moment that the 40 MeV/4He
result is solid and can be reliably replicated,
and going with helium as a predominant
non-radiative byproduct, what does this say
about the reactions involved? Â Does it mean
that there would need to be more than helium
generation, or is there a way to work out helium
generation that produces this level of energy?
Eric
