Jones wrote--
As a general rule – therefore it can be said that there is no correlation
between loading ratio and heat unless it is related to isotopes, meaning
that this detail about the lack of any correlation can be limited to
hydrogen (protium) and does not necessarily apply to deuterium<<<
I do not agree. If the loading causes micro cracking in the Pd matrix, it
very well may correlate with heat. Micro cracking would apply equally to H
and D and thus would suggest that D is necessary for the NAE reaction to
occur in Pd. Since the loading near the surface is significantly greater
than away from the surface, the cracking near the surface could be expected
to be more frequent with higher NAE density.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jones Beene" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 7:02 AM
Subject: RE: [Vo]:nice essay Jed
Eric Walker wrote:
Jed Rothwell wrote:
If Ed is right and the reaction occurs only at the surface,
then there would be rapid exchange with hydrogen in the water. What I do not
understand about that hypothesis is: Why is high loading important, in that
case?
Another possibility about the role of high loading -- it's
useful in PdD cold fusion because it results in a prolonged release of
hydrogen to the surface. Palladium interacts with hydrogen/deuterium
differently than nickel does with hydrogen. In particular, hydrogen and
deuterium are more soluble in palladium than nickel, if I remember
correctly.
It should be clear that “Palladium interacts with hydrogen/deuterium
differently than nickel does with hydrogen,” as Eric says, but somehow that
message gets lost in the effort to simplify (that which cannot be
simplified). Ed Storms consistently overlooks this fact, in a tireless but
failing effort to promote his theory - and yet it is fact.
This goes back to mainstream science and hydrogen storage materials. It
there was any kind of basic connection between high loading with hydrogen,
and excess heat - it would have turned up long ago in the quest for better
hydrogen storage materials.
In terms of laboratory expenditure, a factor of perhaps 10-100 times more
effort, man-hours and money has been spent by mainstream science in an
effort to maximize hydrogen storage in metals than for LENR. This effort
goes all the way back to the 1950s for storing rocket propellants for
thrusters. Many of the metals were nickel-based.
In all of that work no evidence of excess heat has turned up – and it was a
huge coordinated effort to maximize hydrogen storage, in which researchers
were very careful about measuring for heat – since adding heat is the
precise way that hydrogen is released from storage in a metal matrix.
As a general rule – therefore it can be said that there is no correlation
between loading ratio and heat unless it is related to isotopes, meaning
that this detail about the lack of any correlation can be limited to
hydrogen (protium) and does not necessarily apply to deuterium.
Jones
