-----Original Message----- From: Stephen A. Lawrence > "So what we seem to have is this: They time phase during which pressure doesn't rise, then they measure the rate of pressure rise once the Pd gas absorption slows down, and they use that measured pressure rise, along with the duration of the constant-pressure phase, to *estimate* the amount of gas injected into the container. Using that, plus the weight of the Pd, they arrive at an estimated value for the loading.
> Is that how other folks understood this?" Yes and no. It is in seeming conflict with the charts at the end. BTW - and this is jumping ahead, since the results are in doubt and need to be carefully replicated ... but ... If there were some kind of useable "loading gain" that could be exploited; then apparently it would need to be engineered in a way that the cycling of active material is in a narrow range ... one which goes from "almost completely loaded" to "fully loaded" - and this happened at a rapid rate. Let's say you could go from a H/Pd ratio of 1.1 down to 1.05 and back, ad infinitum - and furthermore that there would be continuous excess heat in that small gap - due to some force like Casimir or picogravity. In general, we would still label this as "ZPE pumping" since we can probably define the zero point field in such a way that all of these putative forces and sources are covered. And a major point of the recent A-Z results is that there is that order of magnitude gain (10x) in moving from the Pd-zirconia material to the Nickel alloy. Catch-22 Arata does not show the gain with hydrogen like Kitamura does. Jones
