Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation
Lou, Show this to one of your non degree tech guys working at your transducer based instrument factory shop in N. J. : http://www.icpig2009.unam.mx/pdf/PB13-3.pdf He could assemble it in an hour. Use Ar instead of He. Next day check for He. Surprise! The C deposit is conical nano structure and has a trapped H within. No need to check for excess heat. Where there is He there is Rossi Fusion. The ECat appropriated Chan one Hydride mix and must be changed every six months because of He build up. His attempt to get patents on Hydride fusion ran into prior pending obstacles. Hence the rush to cheap mass production. Warm Regards, Reliable pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: Abd, I intend to do some more research on this - plasmonics is pretty dicey. I'm not sure whether a nanowire has a cross-section large enough to scatter gammas originating at any significant distance, thoug, unless they are extremely collimated. But, I am more optimistic than you are that W-L would pass this test. According to the calculations in the paper I cited, the enormous effective (not relativistic) mass of those electrons make each look like a subatomic battering ram to any particle unfortunate enough to collide with one. I will try to find a local college with appropriate lab resources. There's a slim chance I can get it done. Probably expensive. Too bad I lost the lottery. Lou Pagnucco Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 03:29 PM 4/5/2012, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: Abd, Regarding the absence of gammas - ... is it reasonable to suppose that a high energy gamma would experience many (anomalously high) dissipative Compton collisions before escaping as a less energetic photon? If this is plausible, could we confirm it, by embedding a few radioactive gamma sources inside nanowires and observing whether gammas are attenuated and/or directionally scattered during current flow? Gamma sources could be placed so that gammas pass through the supposedly active heavy electron patches, and, if W-L theory is real, drastic attenuation should be seen. That attentuation should not be seen with controls. W-L theory requires 100% absorption of the gamma energies that would be generated from neutron absorption, so this should not be difficult to detect. Since Larsen patented this, it's really on him to demonstrate it. I'm not about to try setting up some complex experiment just to prove a wild theory wrong. Now, if I had a reason to believe W-L theory, if I were a proponent of it, then, sure, the experiment would be very much in order. Widom and Larsen are raising a highly unlikely theory *without any experimental evidence specifically supporting it.* If they published a gamma screen paper, with sufficient detail for replication, and showing their own results, *then* we'd see some movement on this. Until then, it's fancy pie in the sky. That wouldn't prove W-L theory, but a successful prediction is golden for moving ahead with new science.
Re: [Vo]:Stimulation of LENR using dual lasers, creative engineering needed
Abd, See cheap = Chan. Why did so many ridicule Propane over Ar? Maybe that was key to his success. See http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttextpid=S0103-97332004000800032 Hydrocarbon + Ni in arc = C2H2 + H (highly active) and now C2H2 + Ni = unexplained temperature results. I decided to duplicate Te Chung. Found that long stem spark plugs NGK LZTR5AGP3381 fit nicely in 3/8 iron T using a Thread Insert OEM 25648 FIX-A-THREAD Hey Guys, how about some suggestive help. How many plugs? Do I use Model T Ford coils, old CRT TV HV power supply, Teslar Coil, Medical RFG used to fuse back nerves, RFG generator used for bench testing, .. to energize the plugs . what? And how about the Ni? I remember a comment last year in some blog where a Bloke observed thousands of tiny sparks on a marble floor which had coin Ni dust on it and spill residue of floor cleaner after lights off to close for the night. Do I use a plate heat exchanger as a reaction vessel? Do I dump in some Mg, Fe, Cu, or a metal hydride with the Ni? Not to worry yourselves. Have a concrete slab on isolated property and plenty of blocks to enclose the devise. Hey, this Stimulation of LENR is almost more fun than sex and less expensive. Warm Regards, Reliable Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 09:30 PM 4/5/2012, Daniel Rocha wrote: The idea was doing something cheap, right? Yes. Cheap carbon dioxide laser? If we could get direct stimulation in the range of 8 - 22 ThZ, great! That would replace the two visible light lasers. However, I'm not clear if the far infrared would penetrate the windows and electrolyte. 2012/4/5 mailto:fznidar...@aol.comfznidar...@aol.com Why not use a carbon dioxide laser? At 04:05 PM 4/5/2012, Daniel Rocha wrote: The problem would be the output. The low energy tail would have also a very low power. I think a specialized equipment for that band is required...
Re: [Vo]:more bad news
Exponentials are unsustainable in a limited environment such as Earth's biosphere -- that's a given. The real problem is that, unlike other social organizations of animals, eusocial organization tends to be ecologically dominant combined with the fact that humans are uniquely capable of expanding their ecological range through technology. It doesn't matter what energy technologies we have at our disposal if we don't remove eusocial human organization -- civilization -- from the biosphere. Failure to remove civilization from the biosphere will destroy the biosphere. On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:23 PM, fznidar...@aol.com wrote: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-04/new-research-tracks-40-year-old-prediction-world-economy-will-collapse-2030
Re: [Vo]:Robot aircar taxies and ground taxies would provide another degree of freedom
Jed, What you really should try is my time machine. Yes, I programmed my computer to go back in time. Links to OTR. There used to be a blast from the past by a Bloke named Jed from Georgia. He must have moved on. Try my time machine: http://lin2.ash.fast-serv.com:9022/listen.pls I virtually tour past, present and future all over the world. That avoids inevitable travel frustrations. Pick up or annually rent a tin roof shack on a deserted beach in PR at $100/mo. Land of no rules or regulations but part of the USA. Build whatever you want wherever you want P.S. Orlando to Ponce $59. Fillet mignon import from Honduras $1/lb in P.R. Sea full of lobsters, wild coconuts all over and a cool trade wind. Easy living. Warm Regards, Reliable Jed Rothwell wrote: In the thread about airplanes that convert to cars,Craig Haynie cchayniepub...@gmail.com wrote: It's another degree of freedom. For those of us who are private pilots, we have a tremendous range of territory at our finger tips. We can fly 1,000 miles for a weekend trip, but many airports don't have rental cars readily available, and the terms of the lease are such that it's impractical to rent a car for a short period of time. I see your point. Okay, let us think about how this might work in the future with a combination of fully automatic taxis, both VTOL air cars and ground automobiles. These would not be air cars that transition to ground vehicles. They would be two separate vehicles, both designed for the purpose. Assume that air cars go about as fast as today's Cirrus aircraft, 400 km/h. While you're at it, assume they have built-in parachutes for the entire aircraft, like the Cirrus. We are talking about the distant future. The vehicles are completely automated. Parents think nothing of sending a six-year-old child up in one by herself. You could send one empty with no one on board carrying a package, or send one empty a hundred kilometers to some isolated place to pick up your Aunt Minnie. Assume that ground vehicles go up to290 km/h in tunnels, or on surface roads at 30 km/h. I am talking about conditions starting 50 to 100 years from now, continuing for the next 300 years or so.I can't begin to predict the shape of technology thousands of years in the future. That's futile. I do not postulate anything we have not already discovered. Nothing like anti-gravity. Let us stick to wheeled vehicles, maglev, and aircraft that the Wright brothers would understand, plus -- of course -- advanced robotics and cold fusion. Suppose I am in Atlanta Georgia and I have business in Emmitsburg MD, 950 km north. Assume that people do not allow private air cars to land just anywhere, because they are disruptive. They make a lot of noise and wind and they kill wildlife. Assume they can only land at designated locations such as shopping malls that offer air service. Emmitsburg is a small town. You sometimes see crop dusting helicopters in the fields today. Naturally they have helicopter ambulances. But I do not think people would want small VTOL aircraft taking off and landing in the surrounding area on a regular basis. In this scenario, I drive a short distance to some local mall that offers air taxi service. I take an air taxi to Gettysburg, PA. in about 2 hours, 20 minutes. An automated ground taxi is waiting for me there. There are probably no taxis available in Gettysburg today, but there will be in the future because many elderly people in that area who do not get out often will not want to bother owning an automobiles. As I said, you will have the option to call a robot taxi that comes to your door in 15 min. which you can use all day if you like. These vehicles will be cheaper in any town will have a few of them available any time. Even people who own their own cars will want a few of them within 30 minutes in case their car needs repair, or friends relatives come from out of town and everyone wants to go out somewhere, or in case you buy a bunch of furniture and you need the equivalent of a pickup truck. The cars resemble today's Zipcar more than a taxi -- the difference being you don't have to drive. Even if you are blind you can go anywhere you like by yourself. North of Gettysburg there our many Amish people who prefer not
Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 8:08 AM, fusion.calo...@gmail.com fusion.calo...@gmail.com wrote: Where there is He there is Rossi Fusion. He has never been claimed to be a byproduct of the Rossi eCat. T
Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation
Terry Blanton wrote: On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 8:08 AM, fusion.calo...@gmail.com fusion.calo...@gmail.com wrote: Where there is He there is Rossi Fusion. He has never been claimed to be a byproduct of the Rossi eCat. Terry, That does not mean it's not there, though. It should be checked for. One of the first experiments to report anomalous LENR effects - EXPERIMENTAL ATTEMPTS TO DECOMPOSE TUNGSTEN AT HIGH TEMPERATURES - Amer. Chem. Soc. 44 (1922) http://www.uf.narod.ru/science/WendtIrion.pdf - did report possible He production. Possibly a mistake. It would be nice to know if it was.
Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation
Reliable/fusion.cal, If an experiment this simple produces He, it proves LENR. Now, for sure, one of the objections raised would be that the He detected was mixed in with the methane - even if the Argon is used. Has anyone ruled out this possible artifact? fusion.calo...@gmail.com wrote: Lou, Show this to one of your non degree tech guys working at your transducer based instrument factory shop in N. J. : http://www.icpig2009.unam.mx/pdf/PB13-3.pdf He could assemble it in an hour. Use Ar instead of He. Next day check for He. Surprise! The C deposit is conical nano structure and has a trapped H within. No need to check for excess heat. Where there is He there is Rossi Fusion. The ECat appropriated Chan one Hydride mix and must be changed every six months because of He build up. His attempt to get patents on Hydride fusion ran into prior pending obstacles. Hence the rush to cheap mass production. Warm Regards, Reliable pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: Abd, I intend to do some more research on this - plasmonics is pretty dicey. I'm not sure whether a nanowire has a cross-section large enough to scatter gammas originating at any significant distance, thoug, unless they are extremely collimated. But, I am more optimistic than you are that W-L would pass this test. According to the calculations in the paper I cited, the enormous effective (not relativistic) mass of those electrons make each look like a subatomic battering ram to any particle unfortunate enough to collide with one. I will try to find a local college with appropriate lab resources. There's a slim chance I can get it done. Probably expensive. Too bad I lost the lottery. Lou Pagnucco Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 03:29 PM 4/5/2012, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: Abd, Regarding the absence of gammas - ... is it reasonable to suppose that a high energy gamma would experience many (anomalously high) dissipative Compton collisions before escaping as a less energetic photon? If this is plausible, could we confirm it, by embedding a few radioactive gamma sources inside nanowires and observing whether gammas are attenuated and/or directionally scattered during current flow? Gamma sources could be placed so that gammas pass through the supposedly active heavy electron patches, and, if W-L theory is real, drastic attenuation should be seen. That attentuation should not be seen with controls. W-L theory requires 100% absorption of the gamma energies that would be generated from neutron absorption, so this should not be difficult to detect. Since Larsen patented this, it's really on him to demonstrate it. I'm not about to try setting up some complex experiment just to prove a wild theory wrong. Now, if I had a reason to believe W-L theory, if I were a proponent of it, then, sure, the experiment would be very much in order. Widom and Larsen are raising a highly unlikely theory *without any experimental evidence specifically supporting it.* If they published a gamma screen paper, with sufficient detail for replication, and showing their own results, *then* we'd see some movement on this. Until then, it's fancy pie in the sky. That wouldn't prove W-L theory, but a successful prediction is golden for moving ahead with new science.
Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 12:42 PM, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: Terry, That does not mean it's not there, though. It should be checked for. The fact that I have not searched for invisible pink unicorns does not mean they are not there. However, I have no reason to look for them. No theory I have seen indicates that you can fuse H and get He. They require D unless the neutron lives with the pink invisible unicorn. T
Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: That applies to cold fusion theories. There is the sun. :-) T
RE: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation
Terry - the helium would presumably come from alpha decay, not fusion. It should be noted that the WendtIrion paper cited - also assumed alpha decay; but tungsten is much heavier than nickel. Ni is not known to have an alpha channel where this paper suggests that W does: http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0408006 Perhaps a rare but natural alpha decay indicates that this kind of transmutation can be stimulated by massive electrical discharge- so that He4 is observed in fact. Even so, that has no relevance to Ni-H. J. -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton That does not mean it's not there, though. It should be checked for. The fact that I have not searched for invisible pink unicorns does not mean they are not there. However, I have no reason to look for them. No theory I have seen indicates that you can fuse H and get He. They require D unless the neutron lives with the pink invisible unicorn. T
Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Terry - the helium would presumably come from alpha decay, not fusion. Since we know there are likely a myriad of subatomic reactions flitting about these days, I tend to get a bit sensitive to the use of the word 'fusion'. I know that many group them all under that topic. I should not be so ultrasemantic! T
Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation
Terry, Brillouin's theory starts with H and ends up with He - what is going on in between seems to be the land of the pink unicorns and includes rattling the metal lattice cage with EMF to shake loose some energy. They mention having to purge the system of He every once in awhile. http://brillouinenergy.com/BrillouinEnergyHypothesis.pdf On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Terry - the helium would presumably come from alpha decay, not fusion. Since we know there are likely a myriad of subatomic reactions flitting about these days, I tend to get a bit sensitive to the use of the word 'fusion'. I know that many group them all under that topic. I should not be so ultrasemantic! T
[Vo]:Controlling Quantum Tunneling With Light
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120405142156.htm According to team leader, Professor Jeremy Baumberg, the trick to telling electrons how to pass through walls, is to now marry them with light. This marriage is fated because the light is in the form of cavity photons, packets of light trapped to bounce back and forth between mirrors which sandwich the electrons oscillating through their wall. Ron
Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation
that is the point that Lewis larsen put the focus on in his Slides. like this one http://www.slideshare.net/lewisglarsen/lattice-energy-llcmany-lenr-paths-may-produce-he4march-03-2012 2012/4/7 Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Terry - the helium would presumably come from alpha decay, not fusion. Since we know there are likely a myriad of subatomic reactions flitting about these days, I tend to get a bit sensitive to the use of the word 'fusion'. I know that many group them all under that topic. I should not be so ultrasemantic! T
Re: [Vo]:Controlling Quantum Tunneling With Light
That's fantastic. I'm a complete amateur, so I have to ask for clarification -- is the phenomenon behind the tunneling of en electron through a semiconductor, as described in the article, the same one involved in the quantum tunneling of an electron into a proton? Or are the two processes completely different, operating at different scales? The article is describing the tuning of the rate of tunneling of electrons using cavity photons. What is the wavelength of the photons being used in the experiment being discussed, and what is its relationship to the energy barrier being overcome? What happens if you increase the wavelength significantly? Eric On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Ron Wormus prot...@frii.com wrote: http://www.sciencedaily.com/**releases/2012/04/120405142156.**htmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120405142156.htm According to team leader, Professor Jeremy Baumberg, the trick to telling electrons how to pass through walls, is to now marry them with light. This marriage is fated because the light is in the form of cavity photons, packets of light trapped to bounce back and forth between mirrors which sandwich the electrons oscillating through their wall. Ron
Re: [Vo]:Controlling Quantum Tunneling With Light
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: What is the wavelength of the photons being used in the experiment being discussed, and what is its relationship to the energy barrier being overcome? What happens if you increase the wavelength significantly? Sorry -- I meant to say decrease the wavelength!
Re: [Vo]:Controlling Quantum Tunneling With Light
Eric, See what hydride ion (proton and 2 electrons) looks like when locked into Ni lattice here; http://chan.host-ed.me/ Now oscillate by reversing the magnetic vector using a RFG. Last year I saved this ortiz clip as possible source of parts if I ever decided to put something together. "Achieved Rossi replication. Procedure: 1. Approximated apparatus with parts purchased from: http://www.plumbingfittingsdirect.com/press.html 2. Purchased band heater from: http://www.thermalcorp.com/ 3. Thermal couple and accessories from: http://www.plasticservices.com/Electrical/threadnozthermo.htm#TN%20Series and http://www.ni.com/usb-thermocouple/ 4. Loaded reaction chamber with Ni coated Cu nano powder from: http://www.canfuo.com/NanoNi-Cu.html and Fe powder from: http://www.jtbaker.nl/export/worldof/lab/search.asp 5. Cu fittings brazed. Manipulations in glove box. RFG Radionics Radio Frequency Lesion Generator RFG-4 Duplicated Rossi results with COP 6 and still creating steam after 5 days. H2 pressure release ends reaction. Hope this helps you. Reply unnecessary. Ortiz " Suggest you read Wladimir Guglinski Quantum Ring Theory which clearly explains away that extra energy which the Guys here love to expound about. I like to stare at the Chan image and imagine it oscillating between two mirrors. Another quote from Vortex which may clarify the concept: "it was pointed out by someone the importance of Fe powder influenced by RFG to both align Ni lattice structure and oscillate the hydride ion into such a state to neutralize the Zitterbewegung helical energy, thus reducing the barrier allowing a neutron to fuse with the nucleus leaving an electron in the hydride space. " Yes, yes, "cavity photons". A rose by any other name . Welcome to the greatest age about to begin. The Positive Man Eric Walker wrote: That's fantastic. I'm a complete amateur, so I have to ask for clarification -- is the phenomenon behind the tunneling of en electron through a semiconductor, as described in the article, the same one involved in the quantum tunneling of an electron into a proton? Or are the two processes completely different, operating at different scales? The article is describing the tuning of the rate of tunneling of electrons using "cavity photons." What is the wavelength of the photons being used in the experiment being discussed, and what is its relationship to the energy barrier being overcome? What happens if you increase the wavelength significantly? Eric On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Ron Wormus prot...@frii.com wrote: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120405142156.htm According to team leader, Professor Jeremy Baumberg, "the trick to telling electrons how to pass through walls, is to now marry them with light." This marriage is fated because the light is in the form of cavity photons, packets of light trapped to bounce back and forth between mirrors which sandwich the electrons oscillating through their wall. Ron
Re: [Vo]:Controlling Quantum Tunneling With Light
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 2:41 PM, integral.property.serv...@gmail.com fusion.calo...@gmail.com wrote: Another quote from Vortex which may clarify the concept: it was pointed out by someone the importance of Fe powder influenced by RFG to both align Ni lattice structure and oscillate the hydride ion into such a state to neutralize the Zitterbewegung helical energy, thus reducing the barrier allowing a neutron to fuse with the nucleus leaving an electron in the hydride space. Forgive my complete ignorance. Following is what I gather from the above description: 1. Under normal conditions, neutrons being created from some source (not mentioned here) are too energetic to react with nuclei in the system. In order for a reaction to take place, they must be moderated. 2. To moderate the neutrons, you have to neutralize Zitterbewgung helical energy, something you only see described on free energy sites. 3. To neutralize Zitterbewgung helical energy, you dope the Ni lattice structure with Fe, get hydride ions in there as well, and then subject the system to electromagnetic radiation (photons) at the right frequency, which causes the hydride ions to flip around. Where do the neutrons come from? Where do the hydride ions come from? Where do the hydride ions go? This more complex a setup than I was envisioning from the quantum tunneling experiment. In the article, there doesn't appear to be any need for hydride ions to get the electron to tunnel through a semiconductor; this happens due to obscure reasons connected to photon being bound up with the electron such that a new particle is created (a dipolariton). I was imagining a high energy photon (maybe in the gamma range?) binding with an electron, thereby creating a dipolariton which then would tunnel into a nearby neutron (a sort of inverse beta decay). The (slow) neutron would then proceed along the lines that people love to hate Widom and Larsen for proposing. All a wild flight of speculation, since I don't have any business even going there. But what I really like about the experiment is how it connects photons (e.g., the missing gamma radiation) with electrons and the modulation of quantum tunneling. Eric
Re: [Vo]:Controlling Quantum Tunneling With Light
I was imagining a high energy photon (maybe in the gamma range?) binding with an electron, thereby creating a dipolariton which then would tunnel into a nearby neutron (a sort of inverse beta decay). Sorry -- proton, not neutron: the dipolariton would tunnel into a nearby proton, creating a slow neutron.
Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation
In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:34:24 -0500: Hi, [snip] Widom-Larsen theory completely fails to explain the actual experimental results of cold fusion experiments, particularly the PdD reactions of the Pons-Fleischmann Heat Effect. Not that I'm a fan of WL :), but: D + e- = 2 n Pd106 + 2 n = Ru104 + He4 + 11.9 MeV Granted 11.9 MeV isn't 23.8 MeV, but it is about half, and I'm not convinced that the He4/heat ratio has been measured all that accurately. Furthermore, Pd104 + 2 n = Ru102 + He4 + 13.75 MeV and Pd102 + 2 n = Ru100 + He4 + 15 MeV Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
Re: [Vo]:Controlling Quantum Tunneling With Light
From the article: *One of the features of these new particles, which the team christened 'dipolaritons', is that they are stretched out in a specific direction rather like a bar magnet. * *And just like magnets, they feel extremely strong forces between each other.* *Such strongly interacting particles are behind a whole slew of recent interest from semiconductor physicists who are trying to make condensates, the equivalent of superconductors and superfluids that travel without loss, in semiconductors.* Strongly interacting particles form condensates. These particles exchange quantum characteristics until they all look alike and become in fact the same super particle. If a condensate forms, then the Electromagnetic force becomes a short range force, because the coulomb barrier is shielded. When superconductivity is involved, it’s a new ballgame, and all kinds of strange things become possible. On another note, I now understand why integral was so coy in our conversations. I had the feeling he had the answer and was letting me twist slowly, slowly in the wind. If integral is right, I will need to learn quantum ring theory. But Brillouin Energy also gets good results using basically the same mechanism and they use standard theory. Success at cold fusion does not reliably pin down what is really going on. And then there is the other dozen types of cold fusion causations to consider, including cavatation, Arata powder, and transmutation in living things. The cold fusion puzzle is not over yet. On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 2:41 PM, integral.property.serv...@gmail.com fusion.calo...@gmail.com wrote: Another quote from Vortex which may clarify the concept: it was pointed out by someone the importance of Fe powder influenced by RFG to both align Ni lattice structure and oscillate the hydride ion into such a state to neutralize the Zitterbewegung helical energy, thus reducing the barrier allowing a neutron to fuse with the nucleus leaving an electron in the hydride space. Forgive my complete ignorance. Following is what I gather from the above description: 1. Under normal conditions, neutrons being created from some source (not mentioned here) are too energetic to react with nuclei in the system. In order for a reaction to take place, they must be moderated. 2. To moderate the neutrons, you have to neutralize Zitterbewgung helical energy, something you only see described on free energy sites. 3. To neutralize Zitterbewgung helical energy, you dope the Ni lattice structure with Fe, get hydride ions in there as well, and then subject the system to electromagnetic radiation (photons) at the right frequency, which causes the hydride ions to flip around. Where do the neutrons come from? Where do the hydride ions come from? Where do the hydride ions go? This more complex a setup than I was envisioning from the quantum tunneling experiment. In the article, there doesn't appear to be any need for hydride ions to get the electron to tunnel through a semiconductor; this happens due to obscure reasons connected to photon being bound up with the electron such that a new particle is created (a dipolariton). I was imagining a high energy photon (maybe in the gamma range?) binding with an electron, thereby creating a dipolariton which then would tunnel into a nearby neutron (a sort of inverse beta decay). The (slow) neutron would then proceed along the lines that people love to hate Widom and Larsen for proposing. All a wild flight of speculation, since I don't have any business even going there. But what I really like about the experiment is how it connects photons (e.g., the missing gamma radiation) with electrons and the modulation of quantum tunneling. Eric
