On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Alan Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote:
> > http://www.enea.it/it/Ufficio-Bruxelles/news/new-advancements-on-the-fleischmann-pons-effect-paving-the-way-for-a-potential-new-clean-renewable-energy-source > > Thanks! McKubre's is interesting -- sponsored by DARPA and DTRA ( > http://www.dtra.mil/ !!??) > Very interesting slides. Some points for those who have not taken a look at them: - McKubre and coworkers saw excess heat and *tritium* production (2-5E15 atoms) in palladium black and LiOD. In that experiment there was no 4He, and 3He was commensurate with tritium decay (i.e., no 3He from the primary reaction). - They saw excess heat with Ni/H. - They saw something with Ni/D. - There is a bullet point towards asks of whether Ni/H is perhaps Ni/H(D) (if this interpretation is correct, the question is along the lines of my own speculations of late). I wonder whether the connection with DARPA is related to the tritium. Tritium is normally hard to come by, and it is very useful if you want to make a nuclear weapon. If the goal of your organization was to avoid strategic surprises, you would probably want to look into the possibility of tabletop tritium, however remote it might seem. Eric
