Thanks Mark, A more streamlined paper without all the fluff of a thesis is here
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1608/1608.01774.pdf … where they report the observation of conventional superconductivity at “the highest temperature yet attained without mechanical compression” which is around 54 kelvin in palladium-hydride and 60 kelvin in palladium-deuteride. The isotopic difference is important. Actually this statement is probably NOT accurate, as there are higher reports in the literature of equal credibility - but nevertheless that is their claim. At high applied pressure, RTHC was achieved earlier this year and notably this report was in a hydride as well (LaH10). The point being that hydrides are probably where the action is to be found in this field. That relates to LENR. Further: “The remarkable increase in Tc compared to the previously known value was achieved by rapidly cooling the hydride and deuteride after loading with hydrogen or deuterium at elevated temperature. Our results encourage hope that conventional superconductivity under ambient conditions will be discovered in materials with very high hydrogen density, as predicted more than a decade ago” END This report is of course still far from the operating range of an LENR cell, especially the Mizuno recent claim – and for it to be relevant there would need to be transient signs of SC at roughly 300 C but the main point about cycling has another level of interest – which is an optical effect. A narrow optical range would be the key cycling modality. A photon cycling protocol could even be hidden away under the cover of 60 Hertz input, for instance. BTW – a most interesting host matrix for deuterium LENR would be lanthanum pentanickel LaNi5 – which naturally absorbs far more deuterium per mole than palladium. In fact it could be the case that that a kind of induced hexavalency in the host is important. From: Mark Jurich FYI: Here are the links to obtain the titled thesis, mentioned below: https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/handle/10072/367614 https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/bitstream/handle/10072/367614/Muhammad%20Hasnain_2016_01Thesis.pdf - Mark Jurich From: JonesBeene For many years, a recurring theme on vortex involves the idea that a local form of high temperature superconductivity could be the hidden underlying modality which was needed to form a BEC condensate in palladium deuteride, and that this condensate was necessary as a prerequisite for a nuclear reaction to occur at elevated temperature,, even if the state lasted only picoseconds, as opposed to stability at cryogenic conditions. The argument could be worth renewed interest – given that transient HTSC has been found and reported in an authoritative study not involving LENR. That report turned up on LENR forum from poster Ahlfors - as the subject of a PhD thesis by M. Syed from an Australian University. http://web.tiscali.it/pt1963.home/publist.htm “Transient High-Temperature Superconductivity in Palladium Hydride” The nano-magnetism concept of Ahern, for instance, was predicated on high-temperature local superconductivity for reducing randomness, arguably in the form of a ‘transient condensate.’ As to why a pulse of magnetism would be important – very simply this gets back to structural uniformity and Boson statistics. Two bound deuterons in a cavity exist at identical ‘compreture’ due to the cavity containment but that is not enough. Magnetism can thereafter align spin, so immediately you have a near-condensate in the sense of extreme DFR ("Divergence From Randomness") in the physical properties of those atoms in the matrix. From this highly structured but non-cryogenic state – a “virtual BEC” need last only picoseconds if there us sequential recurrence. This is from one of the earlier threads on vortex - with a SPAWARS citation linking to further details on LENR-CANR.org. https://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg89480.html
