Perhaps, then, with micro-spheres made of material with a coefficient of thermal expansion better matched to the Pd-plating, the Patterson cell would perform more consistently?
-- Lou Pagnucco Jed Rothwell wrote: > Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> 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 >
