At 11:27 AM 3/26/2010, Peter Gluck wrote:
Yes, nanotechnology surely will have a great role. And electrolysis
is -in this case a generator of technological nightmares, we have to
get rid of it.
Definitely messy. I wouldn't rule it out, though. But gas phase seems
more likely. I'm not working with it because the level of materials
science is horrific. If I could buy the material, I might go there.
Remember, I want kits or something simple. A CO2 cylinder with some
of the material in it, pressurized with D2. You get, with it, the
temperature profile shown as it was loaded and sealed. You feel it.
It's warm. It stays warm. For a long time. But 3000 minutes probably
isn't, that's only 50 hours. The Arata results show no decline in
temperature at 50 hours, so I don't really know. As Jed has pointed
out, Arata is frustrating. We are starting to get independent work
that is more fully disclosed.
The cost of that little cylinder is unknown at this point, because
it's not just the palladium (there was 7 g of palladium in one of
Arata's cells, it's highly processed and for all I can tell, the
processing may be more expensive than the palladium.)
A gas phase system is a must, heat generated <100 deg Celsius is low
quality energy, >180-200 deg Celsius is OK, you can convert it in
electricity via steam.
Actually, hot water heater temperature is fine for direct heating,
well below 100 C. Say 60 degrees? Central electrical power station,
bad idea for this. Direct heating is a major consumer of energy.
This is the reason for disappointment that Leslie Case's process has
fizzled out. In my 1991 "Topology is the key" paper I have predicted
it, but it has died. Lacking imagination,
I think it was poisoned..
Could be. However, I'm not sure. It's like a lot of things in this
field, there are many, many loose ends, caused by people varying the
hell out of what they were doing, hoping to get lucky.
