Putting things into context...
I have been interested in SAFIRE as a possible LENR platform since 2015 when I saw a video where some unexplained reactions were happening in the phase 1 SAFIRE experiment. Two of these unexplained reactions held exciting possibilities as aout-of-the-box LENR reaction. First, transmutation of an element on the hydrogen gas with an atomic weight of 3 was being produced. and second, huge bursts of energy were produced which ranged up to 20 million watts of power. Even way back then, SAFIRE information mentioned that there was LENR going on in SAFIRE. But the SAFIRE system is comprised of just hydrogen...no palladium...no nickel...no metal...how could LENR be occurring in SAFIRE. This situation was very interesting and possibly revealing. Now in 2018, the new status report video shows how a metal interacts with the double layer that forms in a hydrogen plasma. The tungsten probe should have easily withstood the temperature in the plasma. The temperatures in the plasma is well under the melting point of tungsten. Yes, the electron energy level (7.5 Ev) is equivalent to a black-body temperature of 80,000C , but electron energy levels are not temperature levels. The tungsten probe should have withstood the environment in the double layer. Instead, the tungsten probe vaporized in nanoseconds...it did not first melt. A thick tungsten probe version partially vaporized but what remained looked unaffected. But its interior was transmuted into various other elements even when its surface remained pure tungsten. Anther telling revilation is that the alumina isolation held up well in the double layer. The .thunderbolts. <http://disq.us/url?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thunderbolts.info%2Feg_draft%2Feg_chapter_6.htm%3ApbWFCrtpOcmvsK5iqtp6Ly8Ebwc&cuid=2168707> crew has been interested in double layers in plasma since .thunderbolts <http://disq.us/url?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thunderbolts.info%2Feg_draft%2Feg_chapter_6.htm%3ApbWFCrtpOcmvsK5iqtp6Ly8Ebwc&cuid=2168707> first began as a primary format that appears in plasma in space. http://www.thunderbolts.info/eg_draft/eg_chapter_6.htm <http://disq.us/url?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thunderbolts.info%2Feg_draft%2Feg_chapter_6.htm%3ApbWFCrtpOcmvsK5iqtp6Ly8Ebwc&cuid=2168707> We learn from this old paper that the SAFIRE experiment is the spherical version of this plasma tube experiment. The Double layers in plasma are produced in the plasma tube as well as in the spherical SAFIRE plasma mode. What Alan/Russ did with the metal foil in their plasma tube experiment is identical to what SAFIRE did by inserting the Langmuir Probe into the double layer. The two experiments produced the same LENR effect when the metal was inserted into the double layer. In both these systems, the interaction between the metal and the double layer is to produce a population of surface plasmon polaritons that merge to generate a polariton BEC. The Alan/Russ plasma tube experiment has been conducted by young plasma students for over a 100 years. This goes to show that there is not much new under the Sun. The glow tube experiment is a demonstration of the Goldstein–Wehner law. See http://campus.mst.edu/aplab/index_files/PlasmaTheory.pdf Plasma Theory for Undergraduate Education - Missouri S&T [image: plasma_discharge_tube_480x357.jpg] Detecting double layers in plasma physics is the first thing that these students learn is plasma school. But the most telling clue is the production of gamma radiation when the emissions of the metal interaction with the double layer plasma is shielded by a metal foil. This shielding method is how Holmlid built his peer reviewed muon detector. What the Holmlid experiment is producing and what metal irradiation by plasma is producing is the same thing...polaritons.
