Frank The effect is an interesting phenomenon even if the tendency is to overlook rolling resistance and friction. But the problem for the average observer - the problem with any metaphor or model for LENR - after all these years, is simple. No commercial device. Not just no commercial device on the marketplace but little that is truly novel on the horizon. No toy or demo. At least the video makers with the carts have a commercial demo,
Look at recent conferences. The lesson seems to be that the cost of attendance is inversely proportional to real technological advancement Frank Grimer wrote: To me it is a metaphor for catalysis... One half of component A drops down the field pressure gradient to the low road and speeds up.The other half dawdles along the surface. They both meet up at B and complete their reaction.The reaction speed for the low road is therefore much faster than the reaction speed for the high road. Now in this case the field is gravity. In chemical catalysis it is Beta-atmosphere. In my research on clays I showed that specimens compacted from clay particle aggregations had a higher strength, ergo higher pF, for smaller aggregations than for larger aggregations. Now one of Mizuno's experiments involved a palladium specimen compacted from grains of the metal. The heat generated started running away. Fearing an explosion he stopped it. I read somewhere that he has since had specimens which put in a bath generate large amounts of steam, far too much to be the result of chemical reaction.
