Jones, Sure, some of those experiments produce hot plasmas, but there are many experimental results which appear to produce transmutations with temperatures too low to produce collisions energetic enough for fusion - unless the energy is focused and "hidden" in infinitesimal volumes.
My suggestion is that transmutations be the litmus test for LENR - not the calorimetry results which never seem definitive enough for everyone. If the reported successful experiments were well conducted, then they will be reproducible. Jones Beene wrote: > 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? > > > > > > > > >
