Hi Bob, Your experience in the nuclear energy sector is no doubt relevant here.
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Bob Cook <[email protected]> wrote: My experience is that any fast charged particles creates x-rays which would > be observed and correlated with the ejection of electrons from the inner > electron shells of atoms. X-rays have been observed on many occasions and have been correlated with excess heat. In addition, characteristic x-rays that go back to the ionization of inner shell electrons are of an energy that is readily attenuated by quartz, water and stainless steel, which means you have to take special steps to measure them. (Also, the x-rays are often collimated for some reason.) Also, if there are no fast neutrons, it is unlikely that one would expect > to observe fast charged particles nor gammas, since they would likely be > born from a nuclear transmutation. This is an expectation that goes back to a certain understanding of what's going on (i.e., it is partly a theoretical understanding). That begs the question -- what if something different is going in in this case? In addition, if the LENR reactions take place in a coherent system of > significant size, the probability of the production of high kinetic > energy particles may be low compared to the distribution of energy in many > small amounts and/or directly as phonic energy of a lattice being part of a > coherent system. This is another theoretical expectation. Some people, such as Peter Hagelstein and Mitchell Swartz, like explanations involving a coherent system of some kind. I personally find such approaches difficult to grasp in light of basic thermodynamical considerations. Eric
