Re: [Vo]:Deuterium vs. Hydrogen (wrt Rossi and Ahern)

2011-07-01 Thread francis
Hi Peter, I would like to see Ahern use Iwamura's tungsten as one of his powders because of it's high melting point it would be less susceptible to self destruction, of course milling tungsten to nano geometry probably isn't easy. I remain of the opinion that the most active Casimir geometry

Re: [Vo]:Deuterium vs. Hydrogen (wrt Rossi and Ahern)

2011-07-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com wrote: The W of Iwamura also works . . . You mean Ohmori and Mizuno, glow discharge. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Deuterium vs. Hydrogen (wrt Rossi and Ahern)

2011-07-01 Thread Peter Gluck
I mean- Piantelli has tested many transition metals in his system and has found W is also working, he has attributed to it Iwamura. sorry for that Peter On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com wrote: The W of Iwamura also

Re: [Vo]:Deuterium vs. Hydrogen (wrt Rossi and Ahern)

2011-07-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: However, several dozen of the top researchers in the LENR field were a bit miffed by this change in direction, since they had built careers around Pd-D; and many of them may have jumped ship. I do not know any who say they are miffed at this. None of them seem miffed to me. I

Re: [Vo]:Deuterium vs. Hydrogen (wrt Rossi and Ahern)

2011-07-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
Peter Gluck wrote: I mean- Piantelli has tested many transition metals in his system and has found W is also working, he has attributed to it Iwamura. sorry for that Well, Iwamura might have tested W, but I don't recall that he did. I guess Piantelli was confused. Glow discharge is quite

[Vo]:Deuterium vs. Hydrogen (wrt Rossi and Ahern)

2011-06-30 Thread Jones Beene
An unusual predicament is lurking in the background of the field of LENR, due to Rossi's (apparent) success. Prior to Rossi, palladium-deuterium - Pd-D - was king. Now it is looking like Ni-H will be the heir to the throne. Generally this change in focus away from exotic materials seems like a

Re: [Vo]:Deuterium vs. Hydrogen (wrt Rossi and Ahern)

2011-06-30 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: The curious thing about all of this is that the nano-nickel which did not load was still producing net heat gain, ala Rossi. And wouldn't you know it -  this one, which loads well, has yet to produce net excess heat. Go

Re: [Vo]:Deuterium vs. Hydrogen (wrt Rossi and Ahern)

2011-06-30 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:28:30 -0700: Hi, [snip] I'm somewhat surprised that no one tries Lanthanum alloys, since these are used for Hydrogen storage, implying high loading. An unusual predicament is lurking in the background of the field of LENR, due to Rossi's

RE: [Vo]:Deuterium vs. Hydrogen (wrt Rossi and Ahern)

2011-06-30 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: mix...@bigpond.com I'm somewhat surprised that no one tries Lanthanum alloys, since these are used for Hydrogen storage, implying high loading. Hi Robin, Yes, a few of the lanthanides, particularly cerium, have potential for high loading and reasonable cost.

Re: [Vo]:Deuterium vs. Hydrogen (wrt Rossi and Ahern)

2011-06-30 Thread francis
Terry, I think there are at least 2 levels of activation and the imperfections in the lattice you mention are a priori. I was a long time convinced that the Casimir effect was limited to the Casimir geometry but have come to believe that these cavities can translate resident

Re: [Vo]:Deuterium vs. Hydrogen (wrt Rossi and Ahern)

2011-06-30 Thread Peter Gluck
Re metals tried successfully, Prof Piantelli wrote me, inter alia: all the metals from the four transition metal groups are able to work, more or less; Naturally some work better than the other due to a better electronic conformation in the most external shell and Zr is one of these. The W