You are assuming that hydrogen is the only element that can be used in an LENR reaction. This should be verified.
I suspect that the statement that neutrons do not initiate cold fusion reactions might not always be correct. One would expect a slow moving neutron that happens upon a nucleus would be absorbed and give off a large amount of energy and other reaction components. This new influx of energy might trigger the coming events. The cratering events seems to suggest that energy is released as a cascade of reactions in some LENR cases. That implies that local heating or radiation could be important. Does the reference to two products include energy as one and the transformed nucleus as the other? ******************************************************************************** I think you should add an expectation that temperature affects the reaction rates in general. Rossi's device does not begin producing heat until it is at a minimum temperature. Does evidence exist to suggest that magnetic fields have a major influence upon the reactions? The same question should be addressed regarding electric fields and currents. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Thu, May 3, 2012 11:36 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:LENR detailitis I wrote: What I would love to see are some (very) simple statements that all can agree on that, if tested and found conclusively true or false to everyone's satisfaction, would help to sift between the competing explanations. I offer one such possible statement as an example: Ionization of the atomic hydrogen or deuterium required for a LENR-type reaction to proceed. This seems like something that could be tested with one or more clever experiments and found to be false. It would probably be harder to prove that it is true, but that's generally the case with any proposition, so I don't think it should be a problem here. Storms mentions four proposed limitations to any theory: Neutrons do not initiate cold fusion reactions. Spontaneous local concentration of energy cannot be the cause of nuclear reactions. Compact clusters of deuterons cannot form spontaneously simply by occupying sites in palladium that are too small to permit normal bond lengths. For energy to be released from a nuclear reaction, at least two products must be produced. I like these proposed limitations, since they can all be true or false, but a reservation I have is that some or all of them are quite general and possibly hard to test. What would be nice is a set of statements that are very concrete and testable. Eric
