As Terry said it was a very interesting day for topics on vortex. Rossi demos were mentioned that were able to work with missing heaters but interestingly unable to work closed loop with this deficit.. hot spots and temperature gradients seemingly part of the start up procedure? The controversy over whether the pulsed cooling should be considered an additional control begs the question of triggering thresholds and how important they remain after the reaction is up and running. I mean does the narrow thermal range of gas have to be maintained in both directions? Would an overheat where all the gas goes monatomic also starve the reaction? I don't have an issue with the main energy coming from nuclear reactions but the question I pose is if the triggering parameters that initiate this nuclear path have to be maintained or if the nuclear path once realized generates it's own sustaining environment. And then there was the Brilliouin power point yesterday that suggests the condensed forms of gas in these environments lead to a momentum uncertainty that would reinforce what Jones refered to as enhancing the QM probability. Makes me really wonder about the definition of temperature in these confined possibly relativistic environments and how one really determines what the threshold value should be for different geometries, rate of heat sinking, pressure and other factors.
Fran
