Hi Ecco,
I had not seen this thread, but a few of the details are a bit different from his presentation at the SRI colloquium. For instance he has moved to a different frequency laser. I have my notes here but there should be a video of that speech online, since they were filming it. When SO says that adding deuterium which alone will release muons without a pulse – if prior laser pulsing has already loaded the hematite – that is not the same as saying heat alone can power the reaction, because it always requires laser pulsing to load the matrix. After that, even a fluorescent light can trigger it. Is there somewhere he says this can be done without loading the hematite first with UDD? If so, I missed it and the paywalled article is not clear but implies prior loading. All of this gives me confidence that it is the coherent photons at the correct frequency which work and I think the reason they work is that hematite is the dielectric and SPP are known to form when photons interact with a dielectric in a resonant way. It is all about SPP and resonance. Do you read the Olafsson thread differently? BTW the frequency Holmlid apparently uses now is similar to both sodium vapor, which is nearly monochromatic light at 589 nm wavelength. This is important because, as it turns out, hematite also has an emission line which is close to this wavelength. Actually the sodium lamp is closer than the YAG (I think). Anyway, I hope to be posting some pictures soon of a simple setup that is relatively inexpensive. It will take several weeks to determine if there is any thermal anomaly. The light source I am using is almost identical to the 35 Watt SOX lamp in the wiki entry but it is rated at 18 Watts, which keeps the internal pressure lower. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-vapor_lamp From: Ecco Yumi Hi Jones, Have a look at this: https://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/index.php/Thread/1853-Ask-questions-to-Dr-Sveinn-%C3%93lafsson-Science-Institute-University-of-Iceland/?postID=6358#post6358 The laser can start the process but just waiting after admitting the D2 gas does the same. Also, from "Spontaneous ejection of high-energy particles from ultra-dense deuterium D(0)" (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2015.06.116): Image removed by sender. http://i.imgur.com/nIFBlCv.png And for example, from "Muon detection studied by pulse-height energy analysis: Novel converter arrangements" (http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4928109): Inline images 1 Hope this helps. You can post this information on Vortex if you wish. Cheers, Ecco
