H Veeder <[email protected]> wrote:
> I didn't know that. Was the slab of Pd much larger than the Pd electrode > used by P&F? > It must have been. In the experiments in question, Fleischmann's electrode could produce at most 6 nW of local heating from this de-gassing effect. See: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Fleischmanreplytothe.pdf The 19th century palladium electrodes used as cigarette lighters were probably a few ounces (60 g), and they were fully exposed to air. That is much larger than Fleischmann's cathode, which was in D2O vapor with a little air. For the earlier experiment with a 1 cm cube, Fleischmann calculates: "the rate of diffusion of oxygen through the boundary layer could lead at most to a rate of generation of excess enthalpy of ~5 mW." - Jed
