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Dec 2, 2022Liked by Bob Greenyer

Dear Bob and Alan,

Two questions:

Rothwell explains in his presentation during ICCF22 in 2019 that the increase in excess heat production of R20 compared to R19 was because of the change from external heating to internal heating. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9-HfYScq_4&list=PLpEPF2v_du9RBqvUxxOpoO2GSquUjzn2r&index=7).

What is the reason to stick to external heating in your experiment?

Second question:

The meshes are rubbed against each other while rolling them up. How strong is the palladium connected to the nickel mesh? Is it not rubbed off while this is done? The palladium looks like powder on the mesh.

Best regards, Gerrit V

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We had external heating in the original tests.

My comments about this to Alan after the run were

"I understand the merit of heating from the inside with low pressure, as it will be mostly via high temperature IR radiation than convection through gas and also produce the all-important thermal gradient through the mesh layers as was identified as critical with Piantelli and Celani experiments but that is notbpresent with heater on outside.

Also, the core will be far higher temp especially with low pressure."

The Pd seams well attached, in areas where it was mechanically acted upon, it looks just like planishing, where the bulk of the nanostructure are rubbed flat, sort of like one of those videos where they make a mirror ball out of Al kitchen foil. This will in my view have a marginal effect on any potential reaction.

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Can’t wait for results video

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Find an interesting example of the use of a torus https://youtu.be/7nTqycDH2lM

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