The June 2009 LENR seminar at University of Missouri presenters kept an open mind towards the methods employed to produce anomalous heat. The numerous reports of excess heat manifestations across bubble fusion, LENR and Casimir cavities are well documented and often replicated but the physics remains controversial. I propose that all these manifestations are based on Casimir cavities. The Rayney nickel used by Black Light Power has pore sizes forming cavities of Casimir geometry ( 2 nm as listed in Wikipedia). The recipe for Rayney Nickel leaches Al voids out of the parent Ni - Al alloy which results in a skeleton structure that could not form in a single step because conductive structures fabricated on this scale will aggregate due to the Casimir effect we know as stiction. This also suggests that Casimir force may be the engine behind all catalytic action.
Casimir force requires parallel conductive plates which can take the form of crevices in skeletal catalysts, the meniscus of bubbles in a conductive electrolyte or the geometry of a conductive lattice structures such as Nickel. To produce heat instead of catalytic action however is a rare anomaly recorded most often in combination with rigid catalysts and Pd membranes. Palladium is both a catalyst and due to the size of its' lattice geometry is also a gas membrane allowing monatomic hydrogen to be forced through the lattice while remaining sealed to larger gases. This is why low temperature manifestations of excess heat like SPAWAR and Arrata-Zhang most often include Pd while high temperature occurrences like Black Lights' Rayney Nickel require heat and pressure to disassociate the gas. I believe I have a solution to the controversy but not sure if it would be called nuclear or chemical. I am proposing that Lorentz contraction can occur in the opposite direction creating a time dilation where the gas diffused in a Casimir cavity appears to accelerate while the orbital diameter quite correctly calculates smaller than ground state because it is contracting away on the temporal axis. This only explains catalytic action but I suspect a Rigid catalyst can restrict access to the temporal axis such that only atoms can translate between hydrino and hydrogen states. Therefore monatomic gas diffusing deep into a temporal corridor which then forms a compound or molecule becomes trapped on the time axis but is still moving in accordance with gas law relative to the spatial geometry inside the cavity. This relative motion will vary Casimir force and therefore the dimensions of the temporal corridor in which the compound or molecule is trapped. I believe the Lorentz contraction also allows a relativistic interpretation of what QED calls "up conversion" of vacuum fluctuations in a Casimir cavity. The longer wavelength vacuum flux are not actually replaced with smaller flux but are displaced on the time axis to appear shorter from our perspective. the atomic matter that is painted on the canvas of these vacuum flux inside a Casimir cavity are also displaced on the time axis and physically contract smaller on the spatial axis. this contraction varies with relative spacing between the sides of the cavity as the gas diffuses according to gas law. These normally chaotic vacuum fluctuations are "organized" by the physical containment of a rigid cavity and the changing size of the temporal corridor to create boundaries against the bonding orbitals of the gas atoms. As the corridor collapses these boundary conditions break the bonds and restore monatomic energy levels while allowing the trapped atoms to squeeze out of the narrowing channel individually. One very repeatable experiment presented by SPAWARS is shown below where the Pd is in solution and plated out onto the electrode while Deuterium is being evolved through electrolysis. The incubation time for anomalous heat detection for this method is minutes instead of weeks associated with many of the other experiments. I have suggested using a Pd plated porous tube instead of plating out the Pd from the electrolyte. The H2 or D2 could be fed into the tube which can still be used as the hydrogen evolving electrode in their electrolysis and allow them to concentrate on providing Casimir cavities as intimately to the tube surface as possible. H2 or D2 is always natures' preferred state so the percentage of monatomic gas translating to hydrino state will be small. Fran
