At 06:19 PM 12/26/2011, Aussie Guy E-Cat wrote:
What no comment on this:
"My change of mind was a direct result of talking with Dr. Dennis
Bushnell, the Chief Scientist for NASA Langley who has assured me
that over 100 experiments worldwide indicate that LENR is real,
capable of producing energy much greater that chemical reactions,
with minimal radiation"
I'll comment on it: he went on to say, but it isn't fusion.
That's apparently because he's swallowed, lock, stock, and sinker,
Widom-Larsen theory, and isolated, idiosyncratic attempt to "explain"
LENR by coming up with even more preposterous hypotheses, none of
which have been tested and shown to be of predictive value.
He knows, though, of the heat evidence, and, indeed, Jed's right,
that evidence does show, once we look carefully at the reactions, at
what is in the cells under study, heat far beyond that possible from
chemical reactions in the cell -- unless they are totally unknown
chemical reactions, between elements not known to be present in the
cells, somehow being supplied.
One can imagine that with Rossi, many have attempted it. With
standard FPHE, the chemistry is well-known, and if all the cell
components were to be maximally reactions, we'd still be far, far
short of what these cells have demonstrated.
Put it this way, if this isn't a nuclear reaction, it is some kind of
super-battery, probably worth billions just for that. Unfortunately
for this battery idea, ... helium.
