On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 6:27 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote:
> In his Arata replication, Ahern found that an alloy of mostly nickel > with less than 10% Pd takes up more hydrogen than Pd alone. > This is interesting. But now we're talking about an Ni-Pd alloy, and neither Ni nor Pd. Perhaps there is a mismatch of some kind that causes the lattice spacing to increase. > This is yet another reason, one of many - why consideration of all the > evidence, giving no preference to Pd-D, points to many different routes to > gain in LENR. > Sure. It would seem that there are different reactants and byproducts in NiH and PdD; for example, in the case of PdD we know about 4He and occasionally tritium, and we have no evidence that I know of for either of these in the case of NiH. I still see similarities between the two systems, though. My working assumption is that both NiH and PdD (as well as W, Ti, etc.) involve fusion in some way. Both are without gammas. Both are systems involving hydrogen and transition metals. There's reason to think that reactions in both systems occur at the surface or near it. None of this is to say that there's not a complex series of steps involved or a large parameter space. But I have not seen any compelling reason to conclude that the systems are different at a basic level, and much to suggest that what is at work in both of them is similar or analogous, with different inputs and different parameters which influence the outcomes. Eric
