Fire up a rousing version of "The William Tell Overture" in order to appreciate the latest contention (you heard it first on vortex) that SILVER (not the horse but the shiny element 47) is the almost-hidden key to success in cold fusion... and also the Mills effect as well ! Or is it a coincidence that Randy absolutely depends on silver in his recent announcements?
At first, the large amount of silver used in the Sun Cell was said to be an electrical contact, but now Ag is admitted to be the only catalyst necessary for hydrogen redundancy/reactivity. The only parameter which is required for the reaction to self-sustain, according to Mills own statement (see the latest video on YT) - is "sufficient vapor pressure of silver in the presence of hydrogen". That's right - silver is the only catalyst needed. Imagine that . but now imagine it in the context of cold fusion. Palladium and silver are very similar and often found together in nature. A silver-palladium alloy is superior to palladium for hydrogen diffusion or as a membrane purification. The palladium alloy Pd77 Ag23 is considered the best alloy for hydrogen diffusion, with technical superiority pure metal. The best alloy from J-M is called "Type A" and contains 23% silver. Martin Fleischmann was adamant about the need for silver. This was a perennial subject on vortex for years in the past and Jed Rothwell's comments are worth reviewing. "Type A" is the palladium J-M developed in the 1930s for their hydrogen filters. Fleischmann sez: "Look at the data from Miles. What does it tell you? When Uncle Martin gives you palladium, it works. When you get the palladium from somewhere else, it doesn't work! Why don't people pay attention to that?!?" He was referring to Table 10 in this document, which -- as Martin says -- no one seems to pay any attention to: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MilesManomalousea.pdf It is now looking like the element silver, which adjoins Pd in the periodic table, could be the key to excess heat in both cold fusion and the Mills effect. But why? It is not likely that it works in a different way for Mills than it does for P&F. One thing is superconductivity. It is known in the early nineties that Pd-D is superconductive when loaded above 70%, but the highest transition state is found in the Pd-Ag alloy known as Type A, which is well above pure Pd. Yup . the same alloy we have been talking about. Coincidence? Silver also has numerous metastable states with the most stable being Ag-108m with a half-life of 418 years. If you subscribe to the "virtual neutron" of Widom-Larsen or the DDL, or the UDH of Holmlid, then silver would possibly go to the 108m metastable isotope by absorption of dense hydrogen and it could absorb as a halo nucleus. Ag-108m is said to have an extremely high spin state of 6 (but I cannot find a citation for that). In conclusion, if you follow the cutting edge between LENR and Mills, and can find the one overwhelming detail of similarity - then it is most likely silver and the fact that the gain is coming from Ag either as a catalyst or as a reactant. In Mills, silver is catalyst but in LENR it is reactant. It will be interesting to see which end-result prevails in the end. Maybe there is room for both.
