With palladium, deuterium serves two functions. It produces NAE by cracking it and it also provides a surface dielectric SPP cover the permeates the cracks.
Any deuterium that penetrates deeply into the lattice is lost to the reaction. With NiH, the NAE is premade, or produced in an ongoing process by heat and/or spark. Hydrogen does not play a role in producing the NAE in NiH. There is no loss of hydrogen through too deep penetration of the bulk material so there is more pressure to enhance dielectric SPP performance. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Edmund Storms <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Mar 4, 2014, at 8:02 AM, Bob Cook wrote: > > > > From the experiments on NiH it seems that it is pretty difficult to get > protium inside the lattice--unlike Pd. This seems to point to surface > reactions for Ni and bulk reaction for Pd. > > > Bob > > > Bob, all the evidence shows that the nuclear reaction using Pd occurs on > or near the surface. The fact that Pd absorbs hydrogen is not relevant. > This ability to absorb has two effects. It allows hydrogen to leave the > surface, which lowers the amount of D on the surface available for fusion, > thereby limiting the reaction. And, the D in the lattice can supply the > surface with D when D is not available from the gas or electrolytic action. > In short, the process is more complex than you assume. > > Ed Storms >
