Frederick Sparber writes,
"At the risk of being drawn and quartered I calculate that the
Helium (or Tritium) produced by fusion of two "defective"
Deuterons will have a mass about 0.6% greater than the 4.00260 AMU
of regular Helium or the 3.01605 AMU of Tritium or 3.01602 AMU
He3. Thus the expected energy release (based on hot fusion) could
be reduced by orders of magnitude."
Frascati labs has a fantastic mass-spec setup for analyzing CF
ash, mentioned before on Vo. For some time, I have been searching
their reports for this Helium blip (and other suspect blips) which
can be resolved by their precision mass spectrometer, but have not
observed any anomaly so far. Here is a typical curve (if you don't
mind downloading a big file just to look at one graph).
www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/DeNinnoAexperiment.pdf
Not to worry. There is still one critical detail which should be
mentioned about the electronium concept (i.e. positronium anion.)
which salvages the whole idea.
It is very possible that this is a short-lived temporary ion which
springs into existence only temporarily - somewhat as an adjunct
of normal "virtual positronium." IOW electronium is also virtual
but with a much extended lifetime over virtual Ps.
Therefore, electronium would disappear after the fusion event and
not show up later in any mass-spec analysis.
The reason that the underlying "fusion-event" itself might
nevertheless be "energy deficient" has not been eliminated by this
alternative viewpoint. After all, that "energy deficiency" and
lack of the signature 24 MeV photon - is what the concept of
electronium attempted to explain in the first place.
As an alternative explanation we may have a transitory electronium
instead of a permanent one. Other ongoing processes in the active
CF matrix may have already "withdrawn OU energy" (in the QM
context) in excess of the deficit (24 MeV) and this prior local
deficit then leads directly to a heightened probability that the
positronium anion will form and stay active for an extended
period.
Unfortunately, this explanation probably also limits the CF
reaction to never being amenable to very much improvement over the
present experiments. However, that does not mean that these cannot
be commercialized.
Jones
