Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold Fusion-Treated Palladium-Lithium-Boron Laser Fusion Target Factory

2008-01-02 Thread thomas malloy
Frederick Sparber wrote: I see and appreciate your approach Ed, but being impatient after almost two decades of waiting on those figuring out the mechanism suggests trying a bigger hammer. This gets back to the point I made during the discussion of Professor Susslick's comments. Induced

[Vo]:Re: Cold Fusion-Treated Palladium-Lithium-Boron Laser Fusion Target Factory

2008-01-02 Thread Jones Beene
Here is my take on the crux of the debate about neutrons in LENR: Alan Widom and Lewis Larsen proposed a theory several years ago, which since that time has evolved into a rather logical and insightful explanation for many (but not all, by any means) of the 18 years of experimental results

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold Fusion-Treated Palladium-Lithium-Boron Laser Fusion Target Factory

2008-01-02 Thread Edmund Storms
Jones, the Widom-Larsen theory is not only inconsistent with normal physics but it is also inconsistent with what has been observed in cold fusion. It makes the following unsupported assumptions: 1. Energy can be transferred to an electron from a low energy environment causing the mass of

[Vo]:Re: Cold Fusion-Treated Palladium-Lithium-Boron Laser Fusion Target Factory

2008-01-02 Thread Jones Beene
--- Ed, The isotopic distribution agrees with the distribution reported by Miley. The claimed agreement is poor at best. This could be a very important point to clarify, due to the reputation of Miley. Are you certain that Miley considers the agreement as poor at best ? I was under the

[Vo]:OFF TOPIC Japanese automobile accident deaths decline

2008-01-02 Thread Jed Rothwell
Somewhat off topic, I guess. Japanese automobile accident deaths have declined to lowest levels recorded in 54 years. In 2007 approximately 5,700 people were killed in auto accidents, 609 fewer than 2006. Per capita this is much lower than the U.S., I assume because people drive less there.

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold Fusion-Treated Palladium-Lithium-Boron Laser Fusion Target Factory

2008-01-02 Thread Edmund Storms
Jones, I have no idea what Miley believes. Take a look at the Larsen paper where they make a comparison to a selected set of the Miley work and tell me what you think. The fit is even less good to other data sets. The logic of the fit is even flawed. When a neutron is added to an element,

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold Fusion-Treated Palladium-Lithium-Boron Laser Fusion Target Factory

2008-01-02 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Edmund Storms's message of Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:10:44 -0700: Hi Ed, [snip] The dead times of the elements involved in this process are well known and do not permit the claimed distribution to form no matter how many neutrons are available. Could you please explain what dead times