Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote:
> This might explain why Patterson's later beads no longer produced excess > energy. If Storm's theory is correct, it is the cracks resulting from the > stresses which made the beads produce excess heat. If Patterson found a > way to prevent the stressing due to the difference in coefficient of > expansion, he might have solved the flaking problem; but, at the same time, > he killed the process in preventing the surface cracking. > > Now wouldn't that be a hoot! > It would be ironic. George Miley made beautiful beads that held together well, with little flaking. They produced little excess heat. When Storms tried to replicate Les Case's experiment, he went to great lengths to clean up the carbon-based catalyst material. McKubre later commented that he might have cleaned it up "too much." In 1989, some people got good results with off-the-shelf impure Pd. Later, they purchased high quality, high purity Pd and got nothing. - Jed
