Did someone here attend the recent conference shown on YouTube? Apparently George Miley gave an informal extra presentation about recent results with the Arata technique, gas loaded Pd-Zr. He is out of touch. When I can reach him I will ask for any PowerPoint slides on this. The slides I saw in the YouTube lecture were about electrochemical cells.
Brian Ahern told me Miley reported a couple hundred watts stable heat from a small sample of powder. Power density works out to be in the same ballpark as Rossi's reaction, and probably a lot more than Arata himself has reported. Ni-H is a lot cheaper material, but it would be good to see an independent replication of high power density with gas loading. Ever since Arata introduced this technique I have felt it is probably more practical and better than electrochemical loading. It is a little surprising that it works at all, because most people say that loading cannot be as high as it is with electrochemistry, and high loading seems to be necessary for heat. I hope to learn more about this soon, and get something to upload. - Jed
