This could be the sleeper paper of the year. Photon multiplication in an incandescent cell - due to DCE/SPP would be a mechanism which changes the whole ball game, if true. As they snidely quip on SNL: Who knew?
BTW - this M.O. explains how the Lugano results, as clarified by Bob Higgins to COP~1.5 over 30 days, could have resulted from so low an inventory of hydrogen. In fact, the gain would have been the same with no fuel if SPP are supplying it ! Simply stated, the gain from the incandescent glow-stick type of reactor can be the result of photon multiplication during SPP formation. The nickel and hydrogen can be superfluous. The main requirement is a nanoporous optically translucent ceramic and an electrically charged heater coil which can reach incandescence. The energy comes from the Dynamic Casimir Effect – which is the same as saying, from the zero point field. In a side-by-side test, like the one which Alan Goldwater has been running, the null side will be as gainful as the loaded side (…if there is gain at all, but the results give the appearance of no gain). From: Axil * All those references to order of magnitude increases sound like over unity amplification of incoming photons. Jones Beene wrote: “Dynamical Casimir effect for surface plasmon polaritons” The title says it all, in terms of hitting on two of the significant new catch-phrases which are cropping up in the glow-stick version of LENR, but the paper (from Estonia) is behind a paywall… http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0375960114012195 Ostensibly, it would explain how the SPP can become excessively energetic in circumstances which are relatively mundane. One message that is emerging is that SPP formation could be gainful in itself, despite whatever happens next. One photon going in with two coming out… provides a mechanism for gain if the wavelength is the same. Abstract The emission of photon pairs by a metal–dielectric interface placed between the mirrors of the resonator and excited by a plane wave is considered. The excitation causes oscillations in time of the optical length of surface plasmon polaritons in the interface. This leads to the dynamical Casimir effect – the generation of pairs of surface plasmon polariton quanta, which transfer to photons outside the interface. In the case of a properly chosen interface, the yield of two-photon emission may exceed that of the usual spontaneous parametric down-conversion.
