The big news, as you commented earlier - could be that there is finally good
reason to suspect that scale-up to kilowatts of continuous power is on the
horizon. It may be costly, even without the palladium - to process that much
active nanopowder.
As a result... to overcome the expense of spin casting - they seem to have
opted for DIY with specialty equipment, and not many labs want to go that far.
It would have been fabulous to find that the same material could be produced by
high speed ball milling alone, as that is what Celani apparently believes. But
Celani has not made the breakthrough as this group has - so maybe spin casting
is required.
Clearly - this is similar to a succession of nanopowder experiments going back
to Arata and then Ahern, but without palladium and it makes one sad to realize
that this line of work should be further along than it is now.
A potential hangup is "identity" - since the excess heat appears to be non
nuclear and not LENR - more like Mills and Holmlid as opposed to anything
normally labeled as LENR. That seems to turn-off attention from US researchers
who have been dedicated to palladium and deuterium for decades.
Maybe this time the Italians will jump into the fray along with a few Texans
and a few Russians and a big international competition will develop to bring
the kilowatt reactor to market.
From: Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote:
The "Z" in this report is zirconia not zinc (Zn).
Oops!
zirconia is ZrO2
A shame we cannot adjust these thread titles. My mistake will live on . . .
