On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 3:32 PM, David Roberson <dlrober...@aol.com> wrote:
> > Actually, I find it difficult to understand how the material [nickel] > would be able to breathe well enough to allow entry of the fresh hydrogen > and exit of the ash needed to supply the intense power. With that thought > in mind, does this suggest that the run away process mainly results from > the burning of the fuel that is already in place within the matrix? > I do not believe that hydrogen is soluble in nickel in the way that it is, for example, in palladium. I'm placing my bets on NiH LENR being fundamentally a surface or near-surface reaction. I also wonder whether palladium's ability to absorb hydrogen is required for PdD LENR; I have seen a lot of evidence that reactions occur at or near the surface in PdD systems as well. (Once one assumes a surface or near-surface reaction of some kind, the line of reasoning concerning coherence of phonons becomes more difficult to envision.) Eric
