From: Peter Gluck 

 

Ø  And it is ignored totally by those colleagues of our community who still are 
convinced that the PdD ssytem is the key of understanding all LENRs including 
those potentially useful.

 

One point that cannot be overlooked is that in the Lalik paper, when considered 
in the context of cold fusion, has this major significant difference: the locus 
of gain shifts away from the cathode to the recombiner.

 

This begs the question of whether both locations can utilized for gain, and 
presents the obvious inference that there are two distinct forms of gain in 
normal Pd-D. 

 

SIDE NOTE. It is also very evident that “nano” has been overlooked in the older 
Pd-D systems going back to P&F, whereas the recombiner fully implements nano on 
a ceramic support (see the specs for the commercial devices). This is very 
reminiscent of Arata-Zhang, Ahern, Takahashi which fully implement nano and see 
gain which can be explained simply as free catalytic action on the H2 molecule 
followed by recombination.

 

The authors allude to a partial explanation – which is both obvious and 
confusing. When you look at burning hydrogen in oxygen – the reaction is 
actually fairly complex and will only net about 2.3-2.6 eV in mass-energy. This 
is mainly because the two gases are already combined into stable molecules 
which must first be dealt with using up most of what could have been over 10 eV 
had they been monatomic at the start. Using a catalyst to split H2 into 
monatomic species is not supposed to be gainful in itself. In fact catalysis is 
often mentioned as the prime example of how the 2nd LoT operates.

 

Yet, it turns out that the entirety of the energy gain which is seen in this 
work can be explained by a catalyst which indeed splits H2 at no net energy 
cost, prior to combustion – so that the gain is all due to monatomic hydrogen 
reactions, which will return about 7 eV or more – which is the COP of nearly 3.

 

This is not a coincidence. In short – all of the net gain in can be accounted 
for IF catalysis of hydrogen can be accomplished with little or no energy 
expenditure – which is deeply disturbing to the mainstream of physics – perhaps 
even more so than cold fusion itself.

 

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