Eric -- Wikipedia has a discussion of Nickel hydride with several references to recent papers.
Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Walker To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 8:23 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:"Christopher H. Cooper" On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 3:32 PM, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: Actually, I find it difficult to understand how the material [nickel] would be able to breathe well enough to allow entry of the fresh hydrogen and exit of the ash needed to supply the intense power. With that thought in mind, does this suggest that the run away process mainly results from the burning of the fuel that is already in place within the matrix? I do not believe that hydrogen is soluble in nickel in the way that it is, for example, in palladium. I'm placing my bets on NiH LENR being fundamentally a surface or near-surface reaction. I also wonder whether palladium's ability to absorb hydrogen is required for PdD LENR; I have seen a lot of evidence that reactions occur at or near the surface in PdD systems as well. (Once one assumes a surface or near-surface reaction of some kind, the line of reasoning concerning coherence of phonons becomes more difficult to envision.) Eric
