On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote:
> *The at least one electron-donor material is selected from the group > consisting of: Cs, Ba, Sr, Rb, Li, Na, Ca, K, Fr, Ra, in particular this > electron-donor material is Cesium.* > (From Piantelli's patent.) I'm not a fan of Piantellli's understanding of what's going on in LENR. But I do respect that he's been working with nickel since early days. And there's the cool story about the cloud chamber, where he placed a piece of metal that had been undergoing LENR in a cloud chamber and it threw off all kinds of activity for a long period of time. All of the metals above appear to have low work functions. What is meant by "electron-donor" in this context appears to be that they're hot cathodes. This detail is a gratifying one indeed to turn up. Elsewhere we have speculated that Rossi's catalyst might be something that had a low work function and emitted electrons. Eric
