Possible explanation for Pons results

[Mike Van Pelt]

The latest issue of Petr Beckmann's "Access to Energy" contains a
report on two articles by Ali AbuTaha to be published in MIT's
"Journal of Fusion Technology". AbuTaha seems to have shown that the
stress energy in the crystal structure of cast palladium is sufficient
to explain the energy output that Pons has reported. This energy is
released when the deuterium loading disrupted the structure, like
breaking a spring.

This explains why cast palladium works and drawn doesn't -- and why a
rod that has quit working can be fixed by melting and recasting it.
AbuTaha's numbers aren't in this report, but Beckmann says that the
paper "... shows _qualitatively_ that the heat of fracture is just of
the order measured by P&F and the several respectable labs that were
able to duplicate their effect."

(heavy sigh)
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[Beckman]

In article <43...@alliant.Alliant.COM> sp...@Alliant.COM (Dave Spain) writes:
>Also, can anyone tell me what issue(s) of JFT
>these articles will be published in?
>Dave Spain

A. AbuTaha, "Cold Fusion -- the heat mechanism," J. Fusion Technol.
vol.9, no.3 (Fall 1990), pp.345-349, has already been published (just).
A. AbuTaha, "Cold Fusion -- engineering perspectives," JFT (as above),
vol. 9, no.4, pp.391 -396 (Winter 1990) is now in press.
Petr Beckmann

[Dave Spain]

In article <59...@hsv3.UUCP> m...@hsv3.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
>The latest issue of Petr Beckmann's "Access to Energy" contains a
>report on two articles by Ali AbuTaha to be published in MIT's
>"Journal of Fusion Technology". AbuTaha seems to have shown that the
>stress energy in the crystal structure of cast palladium is sufficient
>to explain the energy output that Pons has reported. This energy is
>released when the deuterium loading disrupted the structure, like
>breaking a spring.
>

[...]

Very interesting development here. I was wondering if anyone was still
looking into the "physical" aspects of this. Does AbuTaha say whether the
disruption occurs during deuterium loading when the current is on or after the
current has been turned off? Also, can anyone tell me what issue(s) of JFT