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Graham Hubler looks at the anomalous heat effect across its many forms: electrolytic loading, hydrogen gas over heated nanostructures, ultrasound and glow discharge. His hypothesis is that the effect needs an optical phonon resonance at one specific frequency, coupled to electromagnetic radiation of that frequency, and that sustaining the resonance produces the heat. The idea draws on his perturbed angular correlation results on palladium hydrides at CERN, X-ray diffraction of superconducting palladium hydrides and 40-year-old internal friction data. Practical rules follow: about 30% of deuterium in tetrahedral sites or many vacancies in bulk palladium, nanoparticles under 10 nm, and a sustained trigger to keep the resonance active.

Microscopic Insights into the Anomalous Heat Effect that Unify Disparate Experimental Results