Re: Cold Fusion And The Future book review copies
Edmund Storms writes: Pu238 emits a 5.5 MeV alpha with a 1/2 life of 87.7 y. This makes U234 which decays by 4.8 MeW alpha with a 1/2 life of 2.46 x10^5 years. This makes Th230 which decays by 4.7 MeV alpha with a 1/2 life of 7.54 x 10^4 years. . . . . . . This makes Pb214 . . . I got it right up to this point, but somehow I went off the track. Okay, part of the reason is that WebElements.com does not list Pb214. I somehow got the idea it was stable. Jed, please send me the latest version of your book. I'm back from Washington and have a little more time to comment. Will do, as soon as I finish entering the latest batch of corrections. I hope you had a nice trip. - Jed
Re: Cold Fusion And The Future book review copies
Jed Rothwell wrote: Edmund Storms writes: Pu238 emits a 5.5 MeV alpha with a 1/2 life of 87.7 y. This makes U234 which decays by 4.8 MeW alpha with a 1/2 life of 2.46 x10^5 years. This makes Th230 which decays by 4.7 MeV alpha with a 1/2 life of 7.54 x 10^4 years. . . . . . . This makes Pb214 . . . I got it right up to this point, but somehow I went off the track. Okay, part of the reason is that WebElements.com does not list Pb214. I somehow got the idea it was stable. Pb214 is a beta emitter with a 27 min half-life. All lead above 208 is unstable and they all are short-lived beta emitters. Jed, please send me the latest version of your book. I'm back from Washington and have a little more time to comment. Will do, as soon as I finish entering the latest batch of corrections. I hope you had a nice trip. Good trip going, bad trip returning. Apparently you people in Atlanta got some bad weather that threw the system out of whack. However the natives were friendly in Washington even though the Government area is like an armed camp. A person can not leave the street without passing through a metal detector, even to visit a museum. There were armed guards at every entrance. They must think they are more important than chemical plants and nuclear reactors. Most people on the street, except tourists, were wearing badges. It was like being at Los Alamos. Ed - Jed
Cold Fusion And The Future book review copies
Reviewers My Editor have made many suggestions, and the text of this book has been extensively revised. Anyone who would like an updated review copy should please contact me. This includes people who have not seen it yet. It is not secret, but I am still eliminating embarrassing mistakes and waiting for permission to use some of the figures. Per suggestions from Tom Benson, I am trying to increase the fluff quotient of the book, despite what My Editor may say. (Take that!) I plan to upload the entire book to the public section of LENR-CANR.org after ICCF-11. On another subject, does anyone have a handy guide showing the exact decay series for plutonium-238? As far as I can tell, it is all alpha decay, all the time, right down to lead-214, but maybe part of it goes to carbon-14. Or maybe I am reading the chart wrong. - Jed
