2009/11/1 Horace Heffner <[email protected]>: ... > as SPAWAR's thermal images show the cathode hot spots arrayed. It would > seem to make more common sense that they occur first at the electrode edges, > where presumably the field intensities and currents are larger.
Not to me, thanks for bringing this up Horace. Edge areas, where the fields and currents are larger, are areas where the electrolytic pressure pushes hydrogen harder into the lattice, i.e. hydrogen absorption areas, right? According to my DIESECF hypothesis, I would expect any LENRs to occur where hydrogen/deuterium is _desorbing_ on the contrary. I have not seen those SPAWAR thermal images you mention (a link would be welcome), but if the hot spots really occur where deuterium desorbs, this brings strong support to the DIESECF hypothesis, and more importantly to the LENR hypothesis in general! This is because, as I wrote recently, desorption spots _should be cold_ if only chemistry was at play (deuteride formation being exothermic, release of deuterium from the palladium lattice must be endothermic). Do correct me someone if I have got it wrong! Michel
