Great paper. On Thu, Feb 3, 2022, 11:51 AM Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The other day Francesco Celani and his friend asked me if I know of any > papers that discuss the role of H in the bulk Pd cold fusion. Can H enhance > the reaction? Is there an H-D reaction? I said I don't recall any papers > like that. It turns out they already found one, which I added to the > library: > > Schwinger, J., *Cold fusion: a hypothesis*. Z. Naturforsch. A, 1990. *45A*: > p. 756. > > https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/SchwingerJcoldfusion.pdf > > QUOTE: > > The hypothesis that I now advance has the following ingredients: > > > (1) The claim of Pons and Fleischmann to have realized cold fusion is > valid. > > (2) But, this cold fusion process is not powered by a DD reaction. Rather, > it is an HD reaction which feeds on the small contamination of D2O by H2O. > > > > Ed Storms has often said there may be an H-D reaction, but I do not think > he says this is optimum, or that it enhances the reaction. > > Here is what I wrote back to Francesco: > > Ed Storms and others have speculated that a mixture of hydrogen and > deuterium might produce different products. You can read Ed's papers for > details. I do not recall anyone testing this hypothesis. I do not recall > reading a paper that suggested a combination would produce better results. > Many people have said that allowing hydrogen contamination of deuterium > prevents the reaction with the bulk-Pd - D system. Bockris and others said > it was important to prevent exposing heavy water to air, because heavy > water is hydrophilic. Bockris used to keep heavy water in a medical IV bag > (with no air), and he added it to the cell with an IV tube, which is small. > You put the valve at the end of the tube, and open it to add make-up heavy > water to the cell. > > Bockris also said that CO2 contamination of heavy water poisons the > reaction. > >
