Jed Rothwell wrote
For experiment 4, the excess heat lasted 70 days. The total experiment
duration was 123 days. If there was a storage phase, it lasted 53
days. This would show up as an endothermic reaction, which would
reduce power output by much more than the exothermic reaction that
followed, because it would be shorter. Any calorimeter that can
measure a positive exothermic reaction of X watts can measure an
endothermic reaction of -X watts equally well.
Energy storage is ruled out.
Not really ruled out. Let's be exact: energy storage by the conventional
chemical redox reaction is and always has been ruled out - OK - we can
go that far.
However, if the storage mechanism is based on nuclear boosting/storage
of some kind - such as weak force hypercharge pumping, then the delayed
output can be greater than the input by a ratio of over a million to
one. The gain is still delayed but also multiplied, when released.
This is especially true with palladium electrodes with a percentage of
silver, since there is the well-known isotopic gap between 108Pd and
110Pd. Both isotopes are plentiful and stable yet 109Pd is mysteriously
not stable in Pd, with a puzzling short half-life AND with a strong
gamma emission line in the vicinity of what is seen in the Focardi paper.
When one goes to investigate the underlying question of why 109Pd is not
stable and in fact is exceedingly unstable - when the adjoining isotopes
on either side (in amu) are very stable, then silver - and the weak
force dynamics come into focus - and physics simply does not understand
this yet. Not to mention the fifth force
https://news.uci.edu/research/uci-physicists-confirm-possible-discovery-of-fifth-force-of-nature/
There could easily be electroweak parameters which favor the silver
isotope, 109Ag going into an unstable state when alloyed with Pd (it is
nearly half of all silver). Or there could be internal dynamics which
work to maintain an unknown isotopic balance when too little silver is
present. This dynamic may favor a cathode composed of an alloy of
palladium and silver. Of course, this could relate to the well known
membrane alloy of JM. The two elements are like twins, found together in
nature... and the weak force is the one factor which keeps them apart.
In conclusion, energy storage via weak force pumping is an alternative
mechanism for delayed gain which has not been ruled out. Of course, many
mechanisms have not been ruled out. Many experimenters have particularly
espoused silver as being a necessary ingredient, including Russ
George... but the bottom line is that no one knows and to confuse things
even more, a fifth force seems to operate between the weak and strong.
Hi-yo silver ! [fade to The William Tell Overture]
