From: Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: You could not be more wrong - at least if
you are classifying Ni-H as "cold fusion" which it isn't.
Are you suggesting that Pd-D is fusion and Ni-H is not?
Yes, that is exactly what I am suggesting. Most of us on vortex agree that
Pd-D seems to have all the characteristics of fusion (to helium) but Ni-H
has no characteristics of fusion.
And Krivit has looked into the proportionality issue (thermal gain compared
to claimed helium) and found none, but let's don't go there - we should
strive to divorce the two fields. They are fundamentally different.
there are many papers from Fleischmann, McKubre, Mizuno and
others describing heat after death, which is to say self-running
No - it is not to say "self-running" instead it is to say that they operate
on a completely different reaction.
These are researchers involved with deuterium. High school kids routinely
fuse deuterium in Farnsworth Fusors. It is almost mundane. We know this
happens with deuterium only, never with hydrogen.
We should strive to drop all association of Pd-D when we are discussing
Ni-H, as the two reactions are unlikely to be related. Hydrogen does almost
nothing unusual in pure palladium, for instance. The reaction demands a
ferromagnetic metal - either nickel or cobalt. When palladium is alloyed
with nickel, hydrogen will then become a valid fuel for thermal gain - but
NOT with pure Pd.
That should tell you volumes about the underlying mechanism.
Jones
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