Thanks. You may have posted while I was participating but I was, for reasons that now turn out to have been spurious, ignoring your posts.
I'll try to locate them. On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 5:36 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: > In reply to James Bowery's message of Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:05:48 -0500: > Hi James, > [snip] > > I have talked about this before on this list, but probably before you > joined. > The answer to your question will depend crucially on the average size of > the > Hydrino's being produced. For low values of "p" (the shrinkage level), one > might > expect very little fusion, and hence Hydrino production to be the dominant > heat > source. For large average values of p, fusion will dominate. > The average p level involved could vary strongly with the local > environmental > circumstances in any given experiment, so the results could vary widely. > Furthermore there are a couple of mechanisms which can result in rapid > multiplication of Hydrinos given a source of fast particles (such as might > be > produced by a fusion reaction). That means that there is a chance that > once a > fusion reaction occurs it will rapidly be followed by others, until the > local > Hydrogen supply is exhausted. > This would then result in micro-craters & fusion being the primary energy > source. > > >Many have pointed not just to the cold fusion production of He4, but > >critically, to the production of quantities of He4 that explain the > >measured heat. > > > >If these results are correct, the implications for Mills's theory seem to > >be either the energy produced by He4 fusion events swamps the energy > >produced by the antecedent hydrino production, or Mills is wrong. > > > >The question therefore arises (again, assuming the He4 vs heat > measurements > >are correct): > > > >"What is the expected ratio of energy produced by He4 fusion to the energy > >from antecedent hydrino production?" > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >