Am 14.09.2011 10:08, schrieb Horace Heffner:
It is not possible to put enough lead in the device to suppress the
1.33 MeV gammas from cobalt to even a non-lethal level - provided
there is enough cobalt to sustain a 15 kW reaction at one gamma per
LENR reaction.
Yes this is correct. But this is not what I wanted to say.
I think there could be a very small gamma source inside, possibly cobalt
60, with a power of milliwatts or microwatts.
This gamma radiation could excite the nickel atom and bring it into
resonance in a novel, yet unknown way and could trigger the LENR
reaction. May be its only used to start the reaction and then shielded,
this could explain the gamma burst at startup.
I dont think the reactor itself produces gamma rays in the kilowatt range.
Widom Larsen theory says, that not gamma rays are produced, because the
gamma photons -if there are any- are downshifted to infrared.
Piantelli and Focardi in their papers reported either gamma radiation or
energy production mutually exclusive, never both at the same time. And
so far I understand, they had no shielding, and so they had no high
power gamma radiation.
No LENR researcher has yet reported hard gamma radiation or has died
from gamma radiation so far I know, but many have reported huge amounts
of energy. So, why should the Rossi device produce gamma radiation?
My theory was, there might be gamma rays, that act as a catalyzer to
start and possibly to sustain the LENR reaction,but I cannot believe,
the gamma rays are the reason for the thermal energy. This cannot be, as
you have correctly explained and this was never before observed in other
LENR experiments.
Best,
Peter
