RE: [Vo]:Shanahan is proposing the cigarette lighter hypothesis

[Roarty, Francis X]

ON Wed, 12 May 2010 07:49  Abd ul-Rahman Lomax said
[quote] Meanwhile, I'm generally interested in this phenomenon of high pressure 
build-up within a hollow palladium tube, caused by electrolytic loading. That 
loading must create a barrier that the deuterium cannot cross, and while the 
barrier is low in voltage, the pressure equivalent must be high. It was said 
here that this could be used to generate free energy (and was therefore 
doubtful), but this assumed that the rate of flow was high enough to make up 
for the current flow necessary to maintain that barrier. You can get very high 
pressure, but not high flow rate, equivalent to, with charge, getting very high 
voltage but with only very low current available, as with a Van de Graaf 
generator.
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Abd,
 Obviously Pd creates a barrier that "d2" cannot cross, The controversy is over 
how the pressure is created. The deuterium ice, deuterium clusters, fractional 
hydrogen and other monikers all describe an unusual state of hydrogen
Associated with this phenomena. The state is always associated with a catalyst 
and we must therefore assume the energy behind this effect is supplied by the 
cavity... Is this assuming too much?
Regards
Fran