The interesting part of the phenomenon is not the speed of propagation per se, but what happens at the metal surface during this propagation. I believe there is a conduction band electron sweep as this type of thermal "wave" passes through the metal grains with perhaps unusual behavior when these electrons are swept up to a metal grain boundary. Also, it appears to be more of a wave - and in that sense it can setup up reflections and standing wave behavior. Look at Krivit's photo of Piantelli's runaway reaction on his Ni rod. It appears to have a standing wave effect for the maximum LENR action in the center of the rod. This seems characteristic of a standing wave pattern. It is possible that the LENR activity, being stimulated by the passage of a thermal wave, can turn the rod into an active medium so that a passing thermal waves can have gain and oscillation - almost like a laser cavity.
On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 5:34 PM, JonesBeene <[email protected]> wrote: > > > *From: *Bob Higgins <[email protected]> > > > > > > One of the things I will mention in my presentation at ICCF-21 next month > is detection of a non-Fourier heat transfer mode in thermal modeling work I > did for a calorimeter. Interestingly, Piantelli implicates such a mode as > stimulus of LENR in his Ni rod experiments. > > > > > > Bob, > > > > Not sure that “non-Fourier heat transfer mode” is a useful descriptor of > this property, but anyway… if an extremely rapid heat transfer capability > were to be a part of a metal-hydride LENR system, (which seems unlikely, > but who knows?) then there are design steps which one could take to > optimize the system. The basic design which would benefit from very high > speed-of-sound mechanics, and phasons, would be “spherical convergence”. > Assuming the same or similar deuteron Fusion dynamics exist which are seen > in the Farnsworth Fusor – there is perhaps a 20:1 benefit of spherical > convergence over solenoid (tubular) containment for low energy initiation. > That is for a plasma convergence system but solid state could be even > better. >
