At 03:49 PM 7/12/2012, Axil Axil wrote:
Here is a way to test my guess.
One indicator that the alpha particles come from fusion is a lack of
light nuclear transmutation products; products with an atomic number
less than the cathode material.
The indicator that helium is coming from fusion is that it is
correlated to anomalous heat, in the FPHE, at approximately the
deuterium fusion ratio.
From the begining, the assumption has always been that helium is a
product of deuterium fusion. This assumption may not be true.
Well, "from the beginning," it was assumed that helium could not be
the product. Helium only came to be known as the predominant ash when
it was measured as correlated with the heat.
If helium is found in H/Ni ash, how could that helium be produce?
I'm not at all interested in this question; the question is about the
FPHE, which is an effect in palladium deuteride. I would not expect
helium as the product from NiH electrolytic experiments, unless the
reaction is due to deuterium impurity in the light water.
As to gas loaded experiments, I expect the same ash as with
electrolytic experiments, but this thread is only about a drop in
resistance of the electrolyte (technically of the whole cell, but the
resistance of the electrodes is small).
(The resistance of the electrolyte appears largely in the interface
layer, a thin layer adjacent to the surface where the electrochemical
reactions take place. This layer may be particularly sensitive to
heat generated at or near the surface, as well as to short-range
ionizing radiation sourced at or near the surface. The FPHE reaction
is generally considered a surface reaction. Storms is attributing it
to phenomena that take place in cracks, again at the surface. The
helium is found in two places: in the evolved gas -- and thus
probably in the bulk electrolyte, and in a thin layer near the
surface of the cathode.)
