http://world.std.com/~mica/2011colloq.html Speakers: Peter Hagelstein, Mitchell Swartz, Brian Ahern, Larry Forsley, George Miley, Robert Smith, Fran Tanzella, Xing Zhong Li, It may be too late to attend - even if you are in the Boston area and want to check it out, but anyway, there is a bit of late-breaking news of interest to entice you to call for reservations. Brian Ahern will be presenting a chance discovery - which could lead to mass replication, even at MIT this time if they do not balk at the simplicity :-)
It is not too much to suspect that this could lead to a paradigm shift in physics, and could open up the long-awaited field of ZPE coherence and/or a dynamical Casimir effect (if zero point turns out to be the ultimate source of energy for this, which is not yet clear). Some will claim it also relates to Mills/BLP, or to Arata, or to Rossi. But all of them got it wrong, if this does relate. Any high school student should be able to perform a version for less than the cost of an X-Box- since it is an UNPOWERED experiment, without deuterium or platinum. The reaction gives excess heat simply from the nanopowder contact with hydrogen at ambient (like Arata, but better). It is a surface effect and there is no significant absorption and zero radioactivity. The delta-T is low but the heat is apparently continuous and anomalous. As many of you know, Brian has had ongoing success with energetic nano-materials in an attempt to discover what could be active in the Rossi E-Cat. For those experiments he uses resistance heating to 500+C. He also uses a complicated spin-melting process to get the alloys ... but .... what I am expecting is that when the word of this gets disseminated - then a number of simpler processes (electroplating is an obvious one) will be tried, and possibly one of them will be found to suffice. But it may take hundreds of man hours of tinkering with various techniques, and that is the beauty of opening this up. Rapid cycling of hydrogen spillover (monatomic hydrogen) could be the key. It looks like there is a bit of inherent asymmetry. The best alloy for spillover can be traced back to a 12 year old paper, which was mentioned here on vortex a few months ago. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la981339q Romanowski is a nickel alloy expert. This paper was generally ignored - as it is a simulation, not a real experiment - but it contains the information on a catalyst that puts palladium and everything else to shame. A similar alloy was invented in the late 1800s (google "constantan"). Jones
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