Ref the recent Paper: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/SzpakSprecursors.pdf
"Fig. 6. Analysis of the boulder-like segment showed the presence of a single element, Aluminum... > Why would aluminum be favored? And how could the nuclear > events leading up to this substantial amount of aluminum > happen and at the same time have been close to "energy > neutral". IOW the formative events must have been "energy > neutral" or else one would have a deep cavity there rather > than a mound... Here is an explanation, admittedly working backwards, so to speak. I find it attractive, far more so than the explanations forwarded by Szpak et al.... as will Fred Sparber because it implicates the hypothetical lepton triad, (*e-). Thinking out loud... When the most common Pd isotope -which is Pd106 - fuses with a deuteron, one would end up with a transitory nucleon mass of 108. Cd108 is technically stable, but any newly formed nucleon would be formed on the very edge of instability. How could Cd108 decay in an "energy neutral" way and at the same time allow four neutrons to convert to protons. so as to give us aluminum? Aluminum comes in only one "size" Al27. It is pretty obvious to anyone that 108 is a couple of octaves removed from 27, but the p/n balance of protons and neutrons indicates that such an end result would necessarily involve a number of high energy beta decays, which are not seen, which is not the same as saying that these beta decays have not taken place. Therefore, lets go back to the original poser. How could Cd108 decay in an "energy neutral" way, releasing four high energy betas (< 1 MeV each) and at the same time end up with four neutrons converted to protons. so as to give us four atoms of aluminum and very little net energy release? Easy !! ...says the village idiot - just allow the excess energy to be converted into mass via Dirac reciprocal space, sending to Dirac the 4 high energy betas in exchange for 4 positrons, which take up residence in the 4 newly created lepton triads, in effect "creating" electronium(*e-) where there was none before - and the beauty of this is that you have an almost perfect balance in net energy. ... and no need to summon up "demonology".... Jones
