Strange paper, don't you think? Excess heat due to isotope exchange cannot be more than a small fraction of an eV per atom exchanged, and alumina does not absorb all that much water... so what are we talking about? A few joules at most ?
What a wasted effort. I cannot imagine the motivation to expound on such a
tiny amount of heat.
Will full papers be up on LENR-CANR eventually ?
From: Alan J Fletcher
Jones Beene wrote:
The most interesting distinction in all of physics comes
into focus with
Ni-H, assuming that it is NOT a nuclear reaction (as
normally understood).
There is no proof that Ni-H is primarily nuclear, and many
indications that
it is not, and there are also indications that there is some
secondary
nuclear activity which cannot account for more than a tiny
fraction of the
excess energy seen. If not primarily nuclear, then how does
chemistry enter
the picture?
One of the papers in
http://www.iscmns.org/work10/Abstracts.pdf says it's "only water" :
Control of excess heat production in Pd-impregnated alumina
powder
O. Dmitriyeva, R. Cantwel, M. McConnel, and G. Moddel
Abstract
We carried out an experimental study of excess heat
production during deuterium loading of
Pd-impregnated alumina. Earlier studies [1,2] have shown
that a hydrogen-deuterium (H/D)
exchange chemical reaction can account for at least some of
excess heat observed during
gas-loading experiments. In this work we show that excess
heat contributed by H/D exchange
can be eliminated by prebaking the material in vacuum at
390ºC, due to the removal of
residual water from the material. After the material is
given the opportunity to reabsorb
water from air the reaction and excess heat production in
the presence of deuterium resumes.
Our calculations on the energy available from H/D exchange
show that all the excess heat
observed during our experiment can be accounted for by this
chemical reaction.
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