From: Bob Cook
If I understand the crux of your theory, there is a phase change going on that
harvests energy from some source…In the cases where a plasma is apparent, what
is the nature of the phase change you indicate is happening?
Bob,
One of the main problems with LENR from the start is that observers have
desperately desired to streamline the appearance of excess heat down to a
single cause/effect, preferably of a nuclear origin. In fact there could be
multiple things going on in any one experiment, despite Ockham’s razor. Rarely
does Ockham provide effective guidance in science. Things are always more
complex, the closer your look and in fact the inverse of Ockham is more likely
to be useful.
These differing sub-effects of “hydrogen loaded metals” could be as many as six
to ten independent phenomena, which can interact in such a way that excess heat
happens, or endotherm happens, or transmutation happens, or excess heat happens
in balance with endotherm and in several different ways and disappears
unexpectedly… but none of these effects are guaranteed to be either independent
or closely related. Yet, because of Ockham, many observers feel the
overwhelming need to label it all under a single base cause, which includes
fusion.
My main point is that it is a mistake to try to shoehorn everything into any
umbrella grouping: whether it be a cold-fusion category, or a Storms NAE
effect or a Mills-effect category or a Holmlid-effect category … but this is
what happens all the time. Plus, two or more categories can be interrelated at
one level and independent on another level such that complexity alwasy prevails.
But this predicament is not hopeless. When stripped down to basics, there is
one effect which must precede all the others. It involves the “loading” of
hydrogen or deuterium, for lack of a better word.
It is possible to envision the “cyclical loading/unloading” effect which is
highlighted in the Miley paper which was cited, as the simplest thermal anomaly
of all. Yet this one is grouped into the LENR category despite having no
nuclear nexus. Other effects may build on it in a nuclear way - since it is the
most basic effect, but it should be understood on its own.
This most basic loading/unloading effect is characterized by being:
1) Non-nuclear
2) Low COP for thermal gain - and in fact sometimes showing anomalous
cooling
3) Limited to a narrow range of heat and pressure
4) Involves phase-change and a magnetic field interaction
5) Possibly involved in hydrogen densification, but only after an extended
period of time
6) Generally ignored or missed as being relevant since it is a slow effect
which can be endothermic or have a period of endotherm.
I hope this post will serve as the start of a total and long overdue
“de-Ockhamization” of LENR… :-)
Jones
