On Feb 4, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
See:
Violante, V., et al. Joint Scientific Advances in Condensed Matter
Nuclear Science. in 8th International Workshop on Anomalies in
Hydrogen / Deuterium Loaded Metals. 2007. Sicily, Italy.
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ViolanteVjointscien.pdf
This is great stuff, but . . .
The trouble with this research, as a friend of mine says, is that
it calls for a "special sauce" -- these cathodes that only the
people at ENEA know how to make. The cathode is not exactly a
secret ingredient but it might as well be, because it is so hard to
replicate. I wish they would mass produce thousands of them, and
hand them out.
If not done already it may be of use to strengthen the Pd by
quenching it in liquid nitrogen, maybe immediately following the
annealing at 900 C. This technique works well for gun barrels and
engine blocks, etc.
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
