Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
Second, I keep choking on the fact that this is light water on a
tungsten electrode. It runs head on into Ed Storms's
observation that
light water reactions produce transmutation products (which
Mizuno has
seen) but little excess heat. Why is Mizuno seeing so much
excess heat,
using light water? What reaction path could be taking place in
his
cells that very few others can evoke?
One possibility. Anytime there is electrolysis w/o radiation,
there is always the possibility that the experiment has stumbled
on a regime where electrolysis itself is catalytically OU
(utilizing the Casimir force, for instance, or the hydrino
reaction) and the excess heat seen is chemical - being the
recombination of excess H and O... but this is less likely in an
open cell, where there is no forced recombination.
Transmutation products would indicate that some level of nuclear
reaction occurs, but these are usually such tiny amounts that they
could be indicative of a secondary reaction, which is not the real
source of excess heat, and could even be the endothermic product
of a QM tunneling 'balance sheet' or due to the end product of
hydrogen 'shrinkage' if that is occurring.
Mizuno's biggest problem, in my opinion, is having about 3-4
really good (either ongoing or incomplete) experiments - as in the
current literature on LENR/CANR - like the cryogenic-neutron exp.
especially - and yet not having the staff or resources to start
eliminating some of the alternative ways in which excess energy,
or in the case of the cryogenic D2 - neutrons - could be showing
up... or even calculating the energy profile and mass of the
transmutation products. In a perfect world, this guy would have a
staff of dozens plodding away in an Edisonian approach.
In a war-free USA, imagine what could have been done with some of
that whopping one trillion dollar cost of the Iraq war ...
Jones
