Harry Veeder writes,
But, at a recent conference, a Russian scientist, A.I. Koldomasov [snip] http://blake.montclair.edu/~kowalskil/cf/216koldomasov.html
It's another kind of cavitation reaction, but I'm almost certain that Prof. Kowalski considers this one to be suspicious.
However, there is an excellent reference on his site to a strong paper from ICCF11 co-written by Miley:
http://blake.montclair.edu/~kowalskil/cf/209australia.html
Steve has included this in his abstracts of ICCF 11: www.newenergytimes.com/ICCF11/ICCF11Abstracts.pdf
Part of the broader subject of this paper has been suggested in vortex posts for years. Basically it is this: physicists like to categorize energy reactions neatly as either chemical (involving outer electrons), or nuclear.
However, in many "condensed matter" situations there is a third category involving the innermost electrons - the two closest to the nucleus in the K-shell. At one time we were calling this type of reaction "supra-chemical" but now it seems to be lumped into LENR, even though is not nuclear and not really chemical either. The average energy per atom is about 10-20 keV which is 5000 times higher than chemcial but 50 times less than nuclear at the low end of the nuclear energy spectrum. These reactions have military significance as well (high explosives - or ballotechnics), and that could be part of the problem with the whole field getting the kind of public financial attention which it needs.
In fact if ZPE plays a role in LENR, it is probably through this type of supra-chemical reaction, because ZPE (in Dirac terms) is likely to materialize in CF situations as an epo (positronium) interfacial reaction, where the Ps interferers with the normal dynamics of a proton or deuteron allowing it to near the K-shell.
The authors do not go that far, but say: "It is a well known fact that there is a basic difference between the usual nuclear reactions in fm distance needing energies above MeV and between the fusion reaction of deuterium or tritium and other light nuclei where energies of few keV are necessary only and the reactions occur at fifty to hundred times larger distances."
If Miley is partly correct, and ZPE is also involved in some of these OU situations, then one can possibly design a "coulomb slingshot" effect to protons into the k-shell electrons of target nuclei at a rate of acceleration (jerk or jounce) that keeps them from prior interaction with outer electrons BUT the idea is not to fuse them (which is low probability) but to let them be flung out with more energy than it took to get them in... But to push a proton in that fast requires several megabars of equivalent pressure applied very rapidly. A chemical reaction - explosion, has almost enough, and if "bootstrapped"... who knows? The newest generation of semiconductor laser arrays are efficient enough so that the added input of a pulse of coherent light at the moment of ignition in an ICE engine might return far more energy than the laser uses - from ZPE-enhanced K-shell interaction ?
Jones
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