Actually Julian Brown himself may have a decent answer for this question. A least he had one back before he “changed hats” so to speak.
If not - this is also the subject of Moddel’s patent which we have discussed here as well as Brown’s ideas in other papers. The overlap is not clear. Check out all of his stuff on archive: http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1878 The “source of heat” in Moddel is supposedly an inherent asymmetry, like the Lamb Shift or DCE – dynamical Casimir effect (perhaps it is precisely the LS) where the low energy gain per transaction is made up by the terahertz transaction rate. However, this patent has not gotten traction either. The story of Rossi vis-à-vis JS Brown is immensely curious in light of his moving from Cambridge to EPO. Someone should write a book on it. I was hoping it would be Julian, who seems to be remarkably perceptive. Maybe you are doing that instead ? Jones From: GJB hydrides? Does anybody have a good handle on the possible quantities of heat involved when protons inside a metal lattice begin paring "condensation"? As per this paper by Julian Brown, who estimates that such phenomena may be exhibit by metals (like Ni, Pd, Nb) with high hydrogen loading. http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0504019 Conclusion: "In addition to the normal determinations of superconductivity such as the Meissner effect, the exothermy associated with the pairing phase transition would be quite considerable and should therefore by readily measurable by infra-red or calorimetric techniques." Comment: The associated proton pairs that arise could explain the decreased resistance observed by Celani, as the metal forms islands saturated with condensed proton pairs in the superconducting phase. Proton-pairing condensation would also explain the "quiescence" effect, when all available protons have reached a sufficiently entangled state there is no more energy to be given off by this phase change. So it would not be fusion, or a nuclear reaction of any kind, but a very novel effect none-the-less. The high temperature proton-metal superconductors could have numerous technical applications and the proton-pairing phase-change latent heat effect could be utilized like a super-efficient, solid-state heat pump, with careful design of how to expose the cell to a "hot side" or a "cold side" depending on the stage of the cycle it is in (pairing or de-pairing).
