I posted this on another thread recently.
<http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=vortex-l@eskimo.com&q=date:20140724> In this experiment the possible source of the energy is the electric arc. ***Yup. It's possible that it's the arc that causes the jump to LENR. In Ed Storms's perspective, it is cracks which force a 1 dimensional string to form and somehow the laws of thermodynamics don't apply because it's no longer in the bulk. Well, if there's a spark across that crack caused by a differential voltage, INSIDE that spark you could have the formation of a linear (Luttinger Liquid) BEC that might also act as an accelerator, pushing hydrogen atoms & protons into the sides of the cavities at close to the speed of light, like a cathode ray tube accelerator. Good place to start for this Poynting Vector-based accelerator proposal: http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/msg66755.html INSIDE the arc, it is plasma physics rather than condensed matter physics and the laws of thermodynamics DO get twisted a bit. On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:39 AM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is a researcher by the name of Alexander Karabut who has studied > glow discharge in PdD systems for many years. Here is a brief discussion > by Ludwik Kowalski of some of Karabut's work: > > http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/223karabut.html > > In one kind of experiment, Karabut has carried out glow discharge with a > palladium cathode and deuterium in the chamber. He has seen some > interesting things doing this type of experiment. He has used photographic > plates to capture strong evidence of both collimated and multidirectional > x-rays being emitted from the palladium cathode in the course of trial > runs. For the energy of the x-rays, Kowalski mentions photons in the range > of 1.2 to 3 keV. > > If we set aside for the moment the possibility of exotic states of matter > that might produce the x-rays, they might otherwise be due to the high > energy excitation of L-level electrons in the palladium lattice atoms (see > "Electron binding energies," down the page): > > http://www.webelements.com/palladium/orbital_properties.html > > The L-shell electrons might be excited through different means, but the > collimation of some of the x-rays is suggestive of a beam of protons or > deuterons travelling through layers of the target. If this is what is > causing the collimation, there would be nothing specific to the palladium > system in the phenomenon (except for the energy levels), and one could > expect a similar phenomenon to arise with a nickel target. > > Another point worth drawing attention to is Kowalski's calculation of the > rate of transmutations suggested in one of Karabut's papers, at 1E13 > transmutations per second, which is well into Watt-level production. In > light of this calculation, one might be nervous taking too much to heart > the claim that is sometimes heard that transmutations are not seen on the > order needed to explain excess heat. That this is LENR and not something > else is suggested by the levels of excess heat reported by Karabut and the > lack of gammas (if my memory serves me). > > Eric > >
