-----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell "the palladium isn't the fuel, it's just a catalyst." That is true. Or at least, we hope that is true.
I am NOT a big believer in Ockhams razor, but it firmly suggests that palladium is the fuel. IOW - the simplest explanation for LENR is that it is the result of a version of the Oppenheimer-Phillips effect - such that the neutron is "stripped" non-thermally from deuterium, due to containment and near field Coulomb shielding = and that this sub-thermal neutron is then adsorbed by Pd (the fuel) to result eventually in an alpha decay and around one MeV of mass energy - thus the helium. There should be Rhodium seen in the transmutation, if this were true. FWIW - Googling for (rhodium LENR) turns up almost 300 hits. This could be another reason not to trust Ockham for anything other than a casual aid to determine likelihood... Jones
