I appreciate the commonsense engineering concepts about the endothermic character of diffusion of nuclei within a lattice into the NAE.
within the fellowship of service, Rich On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Edmund Storms <stor...@ix.netcom.com>wrote: > We know from direct measurements and studies at the boiling point that the > Pd-D system has a positive temperature coefficient in this range. This > behavior is characteristic of the effect because the rate must be > determined by an endothermic reaction. The Pd-D system will not be very > active at very high temperatures because the concentration of D in Pd drops > rapidly with increased temperature. This means the rate will start to drop > as temperature is increased above a much lower temperature than is the case > of Ni. > > Ed Storms > > On May 23, 2013, at 3:48 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > > Edmund Storms <stor...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > >> Regardless of which theory a person wishes to apply, this description >> must be acknowledged because it is based on engineering principles, not on >> a theory of LENR. >> > > I agree, but perhaps this description only applies to Ni-H, not Pd-D. > Could that be the case? > > I have never heard of a Pd-D experiment at such high temperatures. Who > knows how it might work. I would like to find out. > > - Jed > > >