On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Ruby <[email protected]> wrote: I'll be writing up Parchamazad's 10/10 success with zeolites in the coming > weeks. >
Thank you, Ruby. I look forward to seeing your writeup. For those who are interested in the zeolite connection, the article says that Iraj Parchamazad, chairman of the chemistry department at the University of LaVerne, "has recently had an amazing success in generating excess heat from palladium-loaded zeolites exposed to a deuterium gas. With no energy input besides that needed to make the zeolites, he is able to get a huge energy return." I wonder whether the zeolite is being used to hold the deuterium gas and feed it to the palladium. I did some quick research on zeolites. They are microporous aluminosilicate minerals widely used in various industries for things like filtration and chemical separation. They are hygroscopic, meaning they absorb water, and when they load water they give off heat. There are different kinds of zeolites, with different structures and pore sizes. Some of the crystal shapes look a lot like arrays of nanotubes: http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/NanoTech/ZeoliteGrid3.png http://www.catalysis-ed.org.uk/principles/images/support_zeolite_pore.gif https://engineering.purdue.edu/CCD/index.php?page=zeolite http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/rock-limestone-and-clay/10/1 Zeolites can easily be doped with metals and, in nature at least, often have impurities. Eric
