Under the general category of "I'd rather be lucky than good" we
find a list of discoveries which were not exactly precisely
anticipated, but yet required a fair share of diligence and/or
insight in order to develop into a "real" invention. I think
Moller's "Eureka moment" may fit in this category better than
anywhere else (if Naudin's figures hold up) because it is not
exactly based on Langmuir, even though it was arguably intended to
be.
This lucky-find is usually called "serendipity" and goes back at
least to Archimedes (supposedly) with his Eureka moment, but the
average Archie wouldn't have picked up on the anomalous
circumsances, nor filtered out the kernel of truth, as did Curie,
Roentgen, Goodyear, and the guy who discovered Velcro, etc.
Anyway, I am not so sure that this MAHG discovery falls into the
LENR category.
For one thing, Ed seems to be assuming that hydrogen gas, filled
from a tank of H2, has the normal ratio of D found in surface
water - which is approximately 6000 ppm - but I would dispute that
hydrogen derived from methane has this ratio - that is too
coincidental and most commercial H2 comes from methane. Plus any
H2 process, whether it starts with methane or water is also likely
to be an eneichment process for D2, which would be removed, due to
its much higer value. Consequently the commercial H2 gas might be
closer to 10 ppm than 6000 ppm....
Does anyone know how much D is actually in the bottled hydrogen
which one gets from a gas supplier?
Jones
