Here are some additional points that are relevant to this question: * When cracks are produced, a wide range of sizes is expected. * People haven't yet figured out how to get enough cracks of the right size.
So perhaps mechanical stress will produce cracks on the nano scale in some instances, contrary to my reply, below. Eric On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 29, 2012, at 20:31, 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. > > I think there are cracks at different orders of magnitude in these > systems. I would imagine that stress-induced cracks would be macroscopic > and could lead to rapid outgassing. I get the impression that the cracks > Storms refers to are on the nano scale -- someone please correct me if I am > mistaken on this detail. > > Eric
