This is hot, so to speak. Cough, cough ... that can be understood in a slightly derogatory way.
Well, it is a slick presentation, glossy and well-prepared - and very convincing for LENR in a most superficial way. Cheerleaders for W-L, like Steve Krivit will be quick to heap on the praise. Put on your waders. However, there is little or no indication that this information has the least bit of relevance for anything other than exploding wires and lightning - where everyone has known for a long time that nuclear reactions do occur. These are not LENR reactions, but are hot. Very hot. Too bad, with all Larsen's funding, that he cannot muster a decent experiment of his own with real data - but instead must depend on slick side-shows and shills to promote a theory that is almost absurd for its intended purpose. Lou, your asked: "tried to reproduce"... what? Exploding wires? There is a megaton of R&D on exploding wires - and no one doubts that it is good data, but how does it relate to LENR? The exploding wire field kind of languished a decade ago, due to lack of a way to go from wires, one at a time - to higher output. Almost every issue of FT (Fusion Technology) in the 1990s had papers on this (before Miley retired as editor). Too bad FT never went digital. There are a couple of patents on ways to continuously feed wired into electrodes but none of them got traction, as far as I know. Jones -----Original Message----- From: pagnu...@htdconnect.com Lewis Larsen (Lattice Energy LLC) has posted a new presentation entitled - "Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENRs) New neutron data consistent with WLS mechanism in lightning" - at - http://www.slideshare.net/lewisglarsen He presents evidence that electrons and protons in coherent/collective motion on metal hydride surfaces, where e-m energy is highly focused, can form low momentum neutrons which initiate LENR events. Slides 18-20 ("Nucleosynthesis in exploding wires and lightning I-III") review the very old (1922) controversy between Wendt and Rutherford on whether large current pulses through tungsten wires could induce transmutations. (See preprint: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0709.1222.pdf). Wendt, using intense current pulses of strongly inductively coupled electrons, saw transmutations, whereas Rutherford, using a sparse beam of uncoupled high velocity electrons, saw none. Rutherford's eminence trumped Wendt's more modest reputation. Now, this cannot be a difficult, nor expensive, experiment to reproduce - using Wendt's procedure, not Rutherford's. Has anyone tried to reproduce it?
