Jones, Good points. I do not know the Oppenheimer-Phillips effect. I will research it tonight. There could be a number of confounding effects that coexist.
Our tendency to look for a relativistic collision behind every nuclear event (except radioactivity) could be the problem. Lou Pagnucco Jones Beene wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: pagnu...@htdconnect.com > >> "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"... > > > Lou - yes that is absolutely true. But there is a middle ground. This goes > back a few decades to Philo Farnsworth - the inventor of television. He > was > obsessed with fusion at lower but not low energy. The Farnsworth Fusor is > the main case in point for the middle ground (and "exploding wires" is > next). This is a completely different regime than LENR. Indeed W-L may > have > some relevance to warm fusion, but none to LENR. > > Copious neutrons from both these devices (Fusor and exploding wire) are > documented at input energies of about 10 keV instead of the fusion > threshold > of over 1 MeV for real fusion (100 times less). Thus, the name often > applied > to these two reactions is "warm fusion." They are triggered with 100 times > more energy than LENR, but are 100 time colder than thermonuclear fusion. > Mas o menos. > > The wild card which explains everything is the Oppenheimer-Phillips > effect, > aka the "deuteron stripping" reaction, or "OP effect" which is the removal > of a neutron from deuterium. > > Wiki has an entry but it is probably the most flawed Wiki entry I have > read. > There is better information in the Vortex archive. > > Jones > > > > > >
