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- From: jrw@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (James R. White)
- Subject: Re: Peroxide again!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.043326.3736@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
- Summary: Yes, peroxide again.
- Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
- References: <920717231221_72240.1256_EHL46-2@CompuServe.COM> <1992Jul22.210626.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 04:33:26 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- In article <1992Jul22.210626.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
- medb@cc.newcastle.edu.au (Dieter Britz) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul22.033005.14971@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>, jrw@ecsvax.uncecs.edu
- > (James R. White) writes:
- >> ... The most likely chemical explanation is that
- >> deuterium peroxide (D2O2) is being formed at the platinum anode. ...
- >
- > We've been down that path, as our politicians like to say. Forget peroxide.
- > At the overpotentials in cnf electrolysis cells, you go straight to O2 at the
- > anode. ...
-
- An overpotential of half a volt is enough to allow peroxide to form.
- This is an order of magnitude less than the total voltage at which
- many cnf cells operate, and the potpourri of contaminants that are
- present might well cause such an overpotential. This is a much less
- exotic assumption than that there is a radiation-free ash-free nuclear
- process producing the heat.
-
- Do you know what the overpotential at the anode is in any of the cells
- which have produced large bursts of heat?
-
- After considerable thought, I have concluded that the most impressive
- results must be due to either peroxide or something much more exotic.
- The amount of excess heat in these results is too large to be explained
- by calorimetry errors. And only deuterium and oxygen are present in
- large enough quantities to store the huge amount of energy involved.
- That is why I would like to see peroxide taken seriously, and decisively
- ruled out (or in) by the researchers who are getting these impressive
- results.
-