> From: "Edmund Storms" <stor...@ix.netcom.com> > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 10:54:34 AM > > A great deal of discussion has been generated by the Rossi test. I > would liker to add my contribution. > > Second, he has shown that the effect can be effectively controlled by > temperature. This means that one rate-controlling part of the process > is endothermic. I have previously proposed that this part involves > diffusion of H or D into the NAE. This suggestion is based on simple > logic. The rate of the nuclear reaction is determined by how rapidly > the reactants can assemble, which would be controlled by diffusion. > Of course, once the reactants are assembled, the nucear reaction would > be very fast and not be subject to control.
I've been wondering for a while about a geometric temperature-dependent explanation. Suppose we have rods of nickel, with cracks on the surface running along the length of the rod. (The same argument can be applied to spheres, but rods are easier to explain). The radius of the rod varies linearly with temperature. With pure nickel there is NO stress around the cracks, so they are unchanged. But suppose his "catalyst" were a surface treatment, resulting in a LOWER coefficient of expansion. Then there WOULD be stress across the cracks, pulling them apart, which could serve either to deepen them, or to elongate them. The deepening and/or lengthening of the cracks creates a NAE whose size is proportional to temperature, so the reaction is multiplied in like proportion. When the temperature drops the cracks close up again. With rods the cracks oriented round the circumference would not expand. With spheres all cracks would be expand.
