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From: "Harry Veeder"
> Ludwik Kowalski's summary of paper by Szpak et al:
> http://blake.montclair.edu/~kowalskil/cf/250szpak.html
Like most of Kowalski's analyses, this one is as
informative as reading the original paper, especially since it adds one very
important element, which might have been missed otherwise:
"During
the main experiment the cell was in the electric field of a parallel plate
capacitor (field of ~ 2000 V/cm). The role of the external electric field is not
clear to me; the authors say it was imposed to created conditions favoring
nuclear reactions. This reminded me of an experiment (D. Letts et al.) in which
a laser beam was used to stimulate the cathode."
One big question, relating to Steve Krivit's quest
for documented 100% reproducibility in a given *type* of LENR experiment is:
"Does adding an electric field convert less-than 100% reliability into an a
fully reproducible process"? ... at least in regard to CT (cold
transmutation)....
I am not saying that it does, but anecdotally there
are certainly a lot of recent papers where reproducibility "seems" to be
enhanced by the addition of an external electric field. Are there any papers or
anecdotal reports of the "failure to reproduce" in experiments where an external
electric field has been used (in addition to electrolysis)?
Jones
BTW taking this observation of Kowalski to the
next level of practicality... are there "free" sources of that kind of electric
field? Actually this particular requirement is not large, as electric
fields go, but does it need to be coherent? Probably.
Hmmm....concentrated solar energy will provide that
kind of electric field (~ 2000 V/cm) as will infrared (heat) but not the
coherency. Actually you could get that kind of "free" field from the exhaust
manifold of an auto engine....and as for coherency....?
Remember the Sandia Photo-lattice? My pick for
neglected technology of the decade.
What the photolattice does is
to convert low grade heat into coherent IR light, and very efficiently.
"Coherency" is the key to efficiency.
When trying to rate a wide range of "enabling technologies" in terms of unrealized "potential," the newsbyte that seems now to have had the greatest easily-realizable "potential," to a wide swath of alternative energy research could be this technology
of the "photolattice" but has the technology now gone stagnant? I wish someone at Sandia or Stanford could answer that one. Here is the reference:
"A Novel Photolattice with Extraordinary Properties"
By Neil Savage
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/wonews/oct03/1003phot.html
"A device from Sandia emits infrared radiation at a fixed wavelength and with a conversion efficiency that appears to defy Plancks law"
When trying to rate a wide range of "enabling technologies" in terms of unrealized "potential," the newsbyte that seems now to have had the greatest easily-realizable "potential," to a wide swath of alternative energy research could be this technology
of the "photolattice" but has the technology now gone stagnant? I wish someone at Sandia or Stanford could answer that one. Here is the reference:
"A Novel Photolattice with Extraordinary Properties"
By Neil Savage
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/wonews/oct03/1003phot.html
"A device from Sandia emits infrared radiation at a fixed wavelength and with a conversion efficiency that appears to defy Plancks law"
