On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>wrote:
True. But maybe not a showstopper. Thin film gold is used in computer > boards and plugs. If the gold can be effectively captured and recycled > perhaps this could be made to work. I do not think the goal would transmute > the way host metals sometimes do. > > I think this would be cheaper than using palladium. > An interesting question here is whether the host material is a catalyst or whether it is consumed under LENR. I don't imagine we know enough at this point about the various processes and setups to say for sure one way or another or to generalize. But it is possible that some substrates, such as palladium, are essentially inert under LENR, while others, such as nickel, gold or carbon, will instead be consumed. In the latter case, recycling would not be possible. Eric
