For 20 years, most cold fusion research was stymied by the traditional belief of how fusion was supposed to work. There were a few others who recognized that electron screening was lowering the coulomb barrier but these workers were in the minority and not influential.
Even E. Storms idea has electron screening as a root cause as a one dimensional topological electron charge carrier. I has assumed that Rossi had changed his technology, be he still uses the same approach he started out with so the nanotube idea is original to us here at vortex and may in fact work as you suggest. Cheers: Axil On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Kelley Trezise <ktrez2...@ssvecnet.com>wrote: > ** > I am sure P&F had hopes of seeing clear signs of fusion by packing as much > hydrogen into a sample of palladium as possible but after their initial > success it became apparent to them that the process was dicy, as in a > collection of samples, some worked and some did not. It should have been > obvious to them immediately that the alloying elements (impurities) and/or > the crystal grains and work hardening effects also payed a role in the > results. If Storms is correct then palladium may be completely unnecessary > as is now obvious from the success with nickel. If it is the micro > structural defects that provide the environment for the reaction to take > place then any material that provides such a place be it tungsten, iron, > cobalt, or what have you will suffice provided the hydrogen can make its > way into the site. In the co-deposition of palladium and deuterium, the > built up structure probably created the micro structural "defects" in > abundance, hence it was not necessary to wait around while the packing of > palladium into a bulk sample initiated cracks and created the necessary > sites by crack propagation. (That is what hydrogen will do even to > palladium) I am assuming here that there is no fusion of nickel with > hydrogen but hydrogen to hydrogen, etc. Storms suggested that the reactions > take place on the surface of a palladium sample, which is where the strains > are highest in the case of a material with an internal pressure created by > the loading of deutrium would be highest and as a result would be the place > where cracking would be most developed and produce the most reaction sites. > If nickel is central to the reaction then it is not necessary to have large > quanties of nickel in the reactor just as in the case of no need for large > qantities of hydrogen. The nickel could be built into the surface of a > spongy mass of ceramic that simply provides a physical support to present > the nickel itself in large enough quantites. In which case the temps can be > driven even higher. >
