Is there a paper describing the technique(s) for generating a wide distribution of crack sizes?
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Edmund Storms <[email protected]>wrote: > Tritium can not be detected easily using a beta detector. The best way is > to convert the gas to water and measure the tritium using the scintillation > metaod. The allows the sample to be studied over a period of time by many > people if they wish. > > Ed Storms > > On Mar 22, 2014, at 1:02 PM, James Bowery wrote: > > Perhaps I can illustrate by avoiding thermal detection and going with > tritium: > > Since tritium production is inherently time integrated, setting up a > Cravens style dual experiment with a one treated to have a wide range of > crack sizes, and both identical in all other respects, puts the primary > cost constraint on the beta-emission counter. Can such counters be made > economical? > > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 1:56 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ed, I'm attacking a different problem: Cost. >> >> Since we're in a quasi-Edisonian phase of scientific research, keeping >> the cost per experiment as low as possible seems to be the bottleneck to >> getting a protocol that has reproduces the FPE to any statistically >> significant degree. >> >> Developing a different kind of experimental set up may be the key. >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Edmund Storms <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> James, I feel much more comfortable using a calorimeter design I can >>> trust and that has been used in the past. The Cravens device is a nice >>> demonstration but it proves nothing. I have made calorimeters that do the >>> job much better and give absolute values for power. No need exists to >>> reinvent. >>> >>> Ed Storms >>> >>> On Mar 22, 2014, at 12:27 PM, James Bowery wrote: >>> >>> If you are running a Cravens style simultaneous, colocated control >>> experiment with infinite COP your odds of detecting a tiny temperature >>> difference economically are vastly improved. Basically you just integrate >>> the voltage out of a bimetallic (thermocoupling) wall separating the >>> treated material from the untreated material in a common vessel that >>> provides a small amount of gas communication between the chambers for >>> pressure equalization. This is not an expensive device. >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Edmund Storms >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Yes, getting a wide variety of sizes is easy. Getting enough of the >>>> right size in this distribution is the problem. Only a few of the right >>>> size will not give enough energy to be detected. When radiation or tritium >>>> is used to detect the occurrence of LENR, the effect can be seen using >>>> fewer active sites. However, these methods have not been used very often, >>>> probably because the tools and skill are not common. >>>> >>>> Cracks either want to grow larger or sinter and disappear. As a >>>> result, production of LENR is unstable. This makes the effect occur for >>>> brief times, but not long enough to be sure LENR is actually happening >>>> rather than a random event. >>>> >>>> Ed Storms >>>> >>>> On Mar 22, 2014, at 11:28 AM, James Bowery wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Edmund Storms >>>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Based on my theory, the active material are nano-cracks. Making these >>>>> at the require size is the challenge. Cracks can be made many different >>>>> ways, but getting the right size is the problem. >>>>> >>>>> Might there be a technique that generates a wide distribution of crack >>>> sizes? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> > >
