From: Bob Higgins
I have a few observations that are not being discussed here (and I may be missing something) from the slides from the MIT Colloquium. * The report for the control experiment with no excess heat also showed the decline of the M/e=4 species and rise of the M/e=2 &3 species. This is consistent with the basic fractional deuterium reaction, in a modified Millsean understanding, where the first redundant state is energy neutral. There is no excess heat because, and unlike Mills theory, the first stage ionization and redundancy is itself endothermic, and borrows from the output. After the first step there is net gain, but it takes time to build up a population of fractional D (designated as f/D or f/D- if in the hydride state, which is stable and shows up as M/e=2. This stable ion is what Mills might call deuterino deuteride. It is the correlate of hydrino hydride – a stable negative ion. Of course, it is more complicated than that, since there needs to be some hydrogen retained in the nickel (to give M/e=3 by exchange reaction) but with as many runs as Mizuno made in the testing – and with both H2 and D2, I do not believe he can completely clean the system of one species or the other for every run. Jones
