Flippin' Sweet. I'll have to put time on my calendar to read that.
Second question: since this is apparently a *surface* effect ("Surface Plasmon Polaritons"), do any characteristics of the metal surface (relative surface area of different crystal faces; presence or topology of boundaries between crystal faces; impurities in the metal) affect the rate of the reaction? Can one "tune" the metal -- in principle, if not yet in practice -- in increase the energy yield?
Cheers!
Yes, definitely a surface effect.
The current state of the art is like striking steel to see if it will throw off sparks. Sometimes you get lucky. I’m assuming Rossi has figured out a process to “tune” the nickel. I’m guessing he found a process to make nano particle nickel of a shape or size that easily causes a LENR reaction to take place.
That would also explain why you have to “recharge” the reactants. As each region of the nano particle undergoes the reaction it will melt or even vaporize, destroying the structure required to create the initial reaction.