[Moonman62]

As to how, I thought the "Stirling engine" design proposed in the same set of slides was a very elegant approach to doing precisely what was needed to harness the effect.

What's going to be used to heat the palladium to 360C? What will power the Stirling engine during the majority of the time when there is no effect?

[Wonder Warthog]

"What's going to be used to heat the palladium to 360C? What will power the Stirling engine during the majority of the time when there is no effect?"

A storage battery, of course.....just like your car (or, more precisely, like a Diesel truck). And you are ASSUMING that "during the majority of the time...there is no effect".

I suspect that during a "startup cycle" that they will run the Stirling generator "backwards" giving alternating pressure waves from the driven piston, while simultaneously heating the active fuel area with a resistance element.

I guess you "failed to see" the slide that indicates the groups plans to actually RUN a Stirling engine test bed with the CF power source.