From: Alain Sepeda
> some non hydrides environments trigger LENR. carbon cycles : polycyclic hydrocarbons, graphènes , carbons nanotubes, footbalène... This field of polycyclic catalysts is based primarily on the important Mizuno experiments with phenanthrene, which is an extract of coal. This is must read in importance to LENR also the work of Les Case and others with various forms of charcoal. Anomalous Heat Generation during Hydrogenation of Carbon ... www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ <http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MizunoTanomaloushb.pdf> MizunoTanomaloushb.pdf If the earth under Lake Vostok is typical of sedimentary deposits over much of the rest of the world, there will be coal or other forms of cyclic carbon which will be available as a catalyst. D2O may not be needed for this process. No carbon source would be of use to evolving lifeforms, without an energy source under 2 miles of ice either heat or light. Light doesnt get there and the heat is too minimal to split water. But it could have been barely enough 20 million years ago - to give single-celled life or even non-cellular life a good start down an evolutionary pathway. Importantly, the T-effect of Mills, Thermacore, et al produces both UV light and heat with no toxic radiation. Viral self-assembly comes to mind as possibility here. This goes along with more general hypothesis that life 3 billion years ago could have started out as self-assembling organic molecules, which later became viruses, and then single cells. Viruses are less complex than cellular life and some can arguably reproduce on their own. In 2003 it was discovered that the complex Mimi-virus can make proteins. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimivirus With no competition any such organism (minimal lifeform) which could extract the phenanthrene from coal and use it as a catalyst for a self-contained energy source, would then have a free path and millions of years to evolve in unusual ways. This could open up a certain category of risk to the rest or us, and it is doubtful that proper precautions are being taken. Russians on a tight budget is a guaranteed disaster - as we have seen recently in their space program. This risk of escaping stuff has been explored in legitimate Sci-Fi - and is not too different in concept from The Stuff of the horror film genre Maybe Daniel is correct, after all, in his observation I hope whatever comes out of the bore hole does not taste too much like Häagen-Dazs to a cadre of hungry deep drillers (Bruce Willis wannabes) or else we are in for another episode of life imitating art.
