[image: Ball-and-stick model of the phenanthrene molecule] Regarding phenanthrene as a catalyst.
See post http://e-catworld.com/2016/01/16/hexagonal-crystals-and-lenr-axil-axil/ The hexagon crystal; structure is special in LENR. In Rossi's waffer design, he uses a thin single crystal mica sheet on either side of his centrally located heater. Mica could make that waffer LENR capable. Holmlid uses graphite to form his Ultra dense hydrogen; Cravens uses graphite in his golden ball reactor. The crystal structure of Metallic water is hexagonal and is also LENR active. This hexagonal shaped magnetic lens produces a vortex of magnetic flux lines which interacts with the quarks in matter by dorming instantons as the fractional quantum hall effect does with electrons.. On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 6:54 PM, JonesBeene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > *From: *Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>... > > > > - This is just my opinion but . . . I suspect Pd is the active > material in these experiments, and it always has been. Both Pd and Ni were > sputtered all over the place in the old reactor, with glow discharge. It > has a large display of plasma, which I suppose is sputtering metal all > around… With the latest technique described in Appendix A, the Pd is > deliberately rubbed or plated on to the Ni mesh. > > > > - I still wonder if Ni cold fusion even exists. > > > > > > > > I fully agree that Ni “cold fusion” is extremely unlikely – since there is > no gainful pathway in theory or in experiment for real fusion without the > extreme gravity of the solar model … BUT … this observation is narrow and > does not apply to “excess heat” using nickel to catalyze hydrogen reactions > in other ways… such as those which Mills and Holmlid have described, if not > proved. > > > > The proof for anomalous heat from hydrogen without fusion is as strong or > stronger than that for cold fusion using deuterium and palladium. In fact, > no one in cold fusion has come close to Thermacore’s year long results with > Ni-H - and that includes the P&F hero results in France - which are far > short of Thermacore. > > > > Plus… Mizuno’s most shocking results have been with hydrogen, not > deuterium – and but with phenanthrene as catalyst - where he found that > hydrogen with palladium was no-gain unless phenanthrene was added. He > considers this NOT to be fusion of two protons but with ash consisting of > carbon-13. > > > > In short, there are several avenues for anomalous heat – probably many > avenues - where the source of gain is NOT nuclear fusion of deuterium. >