JonesBeene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: If palladium is being consumed then the economics are much less favorable – > even when the correct price is used… <g> >
Yes. That is what I said in the book, on p. 35: https://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJcoldfusiona.pdf Consumed or transmuted in secondary reactions. If it is transmuted, I hope there is a way to tweak the reaction to prevent that or minimize it. It is possible that some other metal can be substituted for palladium. Ed Storms thanks the palladium works because it expands at a different rate than nickel when it absorbs deuterium. He thinks this creates nanoscale cracks in the nickel, which is where the reaction occurs. Perhaps some other metal has that quality. (The different expansion rates of the two metals that are bound together reminds me of the way a bimetallic thermometer works.)
