Terry/Steven, Excellent out of the box thinking! So we've got a little particle accelerator inside this thing as well! We not going to let the H slowly migrate its way in, we're going to smash it in! I.e., we're too impatient to just let electrochemistry take its course or wait for adsorption to occur, we'll do it exactly when we want, how often we want and how hard we want. That way, things happen in the time that we need them to happen.
And if there is a dielectric layer then its not passing DC, which means we're dealing with AC, which, if I remember correctly, there has been a shot of an oscilloscope screen with a negative-going pulse; was it ever explained what that scope was connected to? Certainly not the pump... So the only other possibility was the heater wire? Is it the repetition rate that throttles the reaction rate? Pulse the particle accelerator, slam a number of H's into the Ni, back off pulse, let reaction occur which generates a pulse of heat, which needs a little time to disperse, then pulse the accelerator again... Voila! Tell Garwin we're almost ready to make him some tea! ;-) In the horse race as to what happens first, October plant going online or someone else figuring this out, I'd have to say that the Vortexian thoroughbred has pulled into the lead... Good work guys! -Mark
