Theory mavens will want to see:
Fleischmann, M., S. Pons, and G. Preparata, Possible theories of cold
fusion. Nuovo Cimento Soc. Ital. Fis. A, 1994. 107: p. 143.
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Fleischmanpossibleth.pdf
This is an OCR'ed version of the paper here:
http://www.newenergytimes.com/v2/library/1994/1994FleischmannPonsPreparata-PossibleTheories.pdf
As I said, this is a better scan than the one I have.
I re-drew the equations and figures from scratch. If someone would
check Fig. 1 for subscripts, italics and so on I would appreciate it.
Ed Storms has already had a look at it, so it is probably okay. Post
a note here if you wish to do this; there is no point in dozens of
people checking these equations.
Incidentally, the term at the bottom of Fig. 1 is:
minus Delta G <sub> ads
Whereas the two equations have G <sub> abs
Presumably --
abs = absorb
ads = adsorb
Or maybe it is a typo. But anyway, there is a difference and that's
what the original says.
Converting the file with OCR considerably improves the quality. It
also reduces the size from 961 KB to 187 KB, which does not make much
difference these days. More importantly, it renders the file visible
to Google. I have heard that Google may one day OCR files it finds on
the web, but evidently it is not doing that now, because it does not
find the copy of this file at New Energy Times.
I think it would be a waste of Google's compute power to OCR
image-format documents on the web. There are not that many; most are
not important; and OCR produces so many errors it is not worth the
trouble. Google is OCR'ing old books for its Google Books project:
http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp
It must be huge undertaking. There are many OCR errors in the older
books I have looked at.
- Jed
