From: Bob Higgins * Claytor's results are not hot fusion because: 1) it only works with certain wire cathodes - the cathode condensed matter must be present and in the right form or there will be no tritium, and 2) the neutron rate he produces is very low (4E-9 of tritium) - not characteristic of hot fusion.
Bob – “Not characteristic of hot fusion”? Not sure what you mean by that. Fusion of deuterons to tritium does NOT produce neutrons in hot fusion. A proton is left over. You may be suggesting that little He3 happens in his technique, but that only means a unique branching ratio. * Thus, Claytor is producing fusion, but not hot fusion. If he gets almost no He3, then there is a different branching ratio from a plasma environment, but to know whether it is hot or not requires much more information than this. * Since it requires the condensed matter environment, it could easily be classified as a LENR phenomenon. I stand by my remarks about the inability of his 1500V-2500V supply to be able to accelerate electrons or protons to 1.5-2.5 keV due to high pressure scattering collisions in his high density plasma. But you do admit, one would hope, that deuterium loaded wires, which is a condensed matter environment, following a high amp pulse from a 2000v cap – and no plasma anywhere at the start - will produce lots of hot fusion, even though the deuterons were essentially stationary and extremely dense, and even if the wire was cold as ice. No one can doubt that 2000 volts will produce hot fusion. Thus the case NOT has been made that all of Claytor’s results are “cold fusion” even if he chooses to call it by that name. Jones
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