I now believe that AbuTaha has found the correct explanation. Why pick out his explanation among the two-a-week of others that have been offered?
Because with the very important reservation that I am far out-side my own field here and might well be wrong, it is my opinion that his explanation is the only one that explains everything relevant and is contradicted by nothing. If there were two or more such explanations, we would choose the simplest, but his seems to be the only one fulfilling this criterion of what is acceptable in science. (Fashionable hunches like global warming and ozone depletion fail it resoundingly.)
It explains why cast palladium worked and drawn palladium did not. It explains why several laboratories replicated the result and most did not. It explains why the cells would work in sudden, sometimes explosive, bursts, and lie dormant between them, until eventually they were completely exhausted, yet they started working again when the palladium was mol- ten and recast, i.e., charged with new energy (see figure, taken from the AbuTaha paper). It explains why all calorimetric measurements did show a far greater energy output than the electrical energy in-vested in electrolysis, because no researcher included the energy stored in the palladium during casting
¾just as the mechanical energy expended in striking a single match is smaller than the heat you get when you use the lighted match to set fire to the match box. But most important of all, it shows quantitatively that the heat of fracture is just of the order measured by P&F and the several re-spectable labs that were able to duplicate their effect.Now for a variation of the usual phrase: don't forget where you read the explanation second. Where you read it first, including Ali AbuTaha's name, was in [AtE Jul 89]. Alas, at the time I dismissed it because I let myself be persuaded by a physicist that the measured heat concentration could never be explained by any-thing involving outer electron orbits, i.e., by anything chemical or mechanical. Had I delved deeper, I might have seen the fallacy: the energy concentration involves not only the energy per atom, but the number of affected atoms per volume. And here all the pal-ladium atoms are under stress, storing the strain energy.
My apologies; but I still seem to be ahead of the crowd.
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Vol. 18, No. 4
Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Issues Issue/No.: Vol. 18, No. 4 Date: December 01, 2004 04:04 PM Title: Big Green beaten black and blue
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