Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: This could be absurdly false - and could kill any remaining credibility > that Rossi has. >
If absurdity could kill credibility Rossi would have none. He is a charming fellow but he tends to say and do absurd things. At least, they seem absurd from the outside. Such as buying a thermocouple meter costing hundreds of dollars and then neglecting to put an SD card into it. He also sometimes makes sloppy errors. If there is only 20 g of material and the heat transfer is as limited as you suspect, he might have made a sloppy error. However, if the 20 g of metal is spread out thinly on a substrate with the particles well separated it might work. An automobile catalytic converter has very little Pd in it. The metal is exposed to a terrific flow of hot gas. Yet the Pd does not sublime or vaporize. I think there is only about 1 oz of Pd in a converter (28 g). Various sources list different amounts. Arata separates particles of Pd by putting them in a Zr substrate. When he used pure Pd particles they heated up and stuck together, reducing surface area. Some people said they were sintering together. Others said a hydrogen reaction was making them stick together. Anyway, the Zr keeps them apart. With the catalyst Les Case used, the C substrate keeps the particles apart. - Jed
