At 10:00 AM 3/26/2010, Peter Gluck wrote:
Thank you for calling CF a surface effect, perhaps we have to add
that it is a local effect,
only separate point like active sites generate the heat.
Unfortunately micron thin layers evaoprate immediately- can you
imagine how much is <http://100W.sq.cm>100W.sq.cm? And can you tell
me a single real example of heat excess obtained with such layers in
the Pd/D2O system? I have not lied when I was alive, should strat do
it now? Should I give non-usable examples, advices to my grandson???
Codeposition, Peter. At last weekend's ACS conference, Miles was
reporting six out of six cells producing excess heat.
Now, is codep a practical application? I don't know enough to say,
and I have a suspicion not, that other approaches will be mure suited
for practical applications. But it does produce excess heat.
If you could give him a usable example, now, you wouldn't need to
give it to him, it would be known in the field. This is not a field
that is currently rejecting useful work, except maybe there is some
level of failure to replicate caused by an edginess or uneasiness
with some results. Why the hell has nobody tried to replicate
Vyosotskii? If they have, they've kept it secret!
You are artificially limiting the reaction to 100 W/cm^2. If you use
greatly increased surface area, combined with only enough reactive
material to create Nuclear Active Environment (i.e., thin), you can,
in theory, generate the same total power at a much lower power/unit
area ratio. The way you would actually design this would be to
determine the ideal operating temperature for the application, and,
assuming it can be attained, arrange the surface area and the other
elements to create this.
"Local effect" is, I imagine, your experience, based on study of
Fleischmann-type cells. There are hot spots in codeposition, but they
seem to pop up all over the cathode, see the SPAWAR infrared videos
on YouTube. The reaction is definitely rare, so the "spots" may
simply reflect the chaotic incidence of a rare effect. It seems to
me, however, that it's likely that a number of lattice sites "pop" at
once, and there might be a chain reaction effect, as a site pops, and
it creates disturbance that shocks adjacent sites into reaction,
bumping them across some threshold pressure. Question then is what
stops it from spreading. It may be slow enough to spread that
radiation (IR) from the reaction site, as it builds up, starts to
blow away the deuterium, slowly enough that it doesn't react, and
that quenches it. And that's as far as my mind can take me at the
moment, and maybe it's too far. An alternate explanation follows.
I'm suspecting that a critical factor is D2 gas concentration in
confinement. As mentioned at the ACS meeting, apparently, there may
be, in solid palladium, voids that can (and will) accomodate the
molecular form. That form may be subject to the formation of Bose
Einstein Condensates of deuterium, and the theoretical work is
indicating that such condensates can collapse and fuse. Codeposition
creates a fractal surface that would have effective cavities in it of
a range of sizes, together with high surface area. If the ideal size
becomes known, it may then be possible to fabricate it efficiently.
Nanotechnology. In any case, with this idea, there may be cluster
sizes that are larger than just a couple of deuterium molecules, and
the heat would be generated in the whole cluster, simultaneously. At
least I think that's how a BEC would operate.
Lots of exciting stuff going on.
Peter, we never know how long we have to live. I hope you have many
years of healthy life left, but sooner or later the maintenance costs
get too high and the unit is retired.
My 6-year-old daughter was born and raised for a couple of years in a
part of Ethiopia so "rural" that it's four hours' walk on a donkey
trail to the nearest mud road, and she's smart as a whip. The other
day, we were talking about what happens when we die. I told her that
some people believe we come back in a new form, so she asked the
obvious question, what's that? As I was thinking about how to answer,
she then said, "I know, Daddy. We come back as love."
So, in a way, I've already "come back." Your grandson won't have to
visit your grave, because you will be with him.
