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| Title: | EXCESS HEAT IN ELECTROLYSIS EXPERIMENTS AT ENERGETICS TECHNOLOGIES | |
| DOI No: | 10.1142/9789812774354_0007 | |
| Source: | CONDENSED MATTER NUCLEAR SCIENCE (pp 84-101) | |
| Author(s): | I. DARDIK
Energetics Technologies, P.O. Box 3026, Omer Industrial Park, Omer, Israel T. ZILOV Energetics Technologies, P.O. Box 3026, Omer Industrial Park, Omer, Israel H. BRANOVER Energetics Technologies, P.O. Box 3026, Omer Industrial Park, Omer, Israel A. EL-BOHER Energetics Technologies, P.O. Box 3026, Omer Industrial Park, Omer, Israel E. GREENSPAN Energetics Technologies, P.O. Box 3026, Omer Industrial Park, Omer, Israel B. KHACHATUROV Energetics Technologies, P.O. Box 3026, Omer Industrial Park, Omer, Israel V. KRAKOV Energetics Technologies, P.O. Box 3026, Omer Industrial Park, Omer, Israel S. LESIN Energetics Technologies, P.O. Box 3026, Omer Industrial Park, Omer, Israel M. TSIRLIN Energetics Technologies, P.O. Box 3026, Omer Industrial Park, Omer, Israel |
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| Abstract: | Using electrolytic cells driven with Dardik’s modified Superwaves, significant amounts of excess heat were obtained in a number of experiments using Pd foil cathodes that were prepared by Dr. Vittorio Violante of ENEA in Frascati, Italy. The most successful of these experiments generated excess heat a couple of times: (1) Approximately 5 h into the first loading of deuterium into the Pd cathode – giving an average power gain of ~2500% during 17 h. The average current density was 7 mA/cm2. (2) The same foil was deloaded after the excess heat generation stopped for no apparent reason and than loaded again. After 16 h of loading excess heat was generated again at an average level of ~1500% for 80 h. The average current density was 8.4 mA/cm2. At the end of the two experiments the effective tritium concentration in the electrolyte was ~750% of its pre-experiment level. The total amount of excess energy generated is approximately 1.1 and 3.5 MJ in, respectively, the first and second experiments. This amount of excess energy corresponds to, respectively, ~4.8 or ~15.3 keV per Pd atom. The corresponding average specific power is 71 or 48 W per gram Pd. For comparison, the average specific power in commercial nuclear fission reactors is between 20 and 40 W per gram uranium. The cathodes were investigated before and after the electrolysis using a number of probing techniques, including AES, SEM-EDS, TEM, and SIMS. Significant amount of low Z contaminants were found on its surface, extending to a depth of 100s of Angstrom. Their origin appears to be the lubricant used for rolling the foil in the pretreatment process. Their presence prohibited detecting nuclear reaction products with acceptable certainty on and near the surface. No transmutation products were found at deeper layers. However, no measurement of He inventory was attempted. | |
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