Dear Ed, The most dangerous aspect of the addiction of CF to cracks is that caracks are destroying the active material, so technologically speaking the crack theory is a death sentence. It can be true for palladium, but less noble transition metals are working hopefully in a different way. PdD and NiH are probably quite different species. Peter
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Edmund Storms <[email protected]>wrote: > If I had such a method, I would first write a patent. Unfortunately, that > is the method we are trying to find. I can make cracks anytime I want but > I can not make the most effective distribution at will, although I get > lucky sometimes. > > Ed Storms > > On Mar 22, 2014, at 1:58 PM, James Bowery wrote: > > I may have inadequately expressed what I was looking for: > > A technique to generate, in a single sample, a wide and relatively flat > (very low kurtosis) distribution of crack sizes (and a large number of such > cracks of course). > > This, as opposed to a wide array of techniques, each of which generates > different but relatively narrow distribution of crack sizes. > > Obviously if you have a sensitive detection technique, like tritium with > scintillation, you would prefer applying a single technique to a single > sample and getting detectable tritium -- however small. > > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Edmund Storms <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I know of no single paper that describes how cracks are formed. However, >> a huge literature exists that describe how cracks are produced in materials >> and how this destructive process can be avoided. I have 69 papers in my >> collection that address this issue. Unless you are prepared to do a lot of >> study, an answer to your question is not easy to supply. >> >> Ed Storms >> >> On Mar 22, 2014, at 1:39 PM, James Bowery wrote: >> >> 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? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
