Two obvious questions avoided by the paper:
1. What is the theory—a reference would normally be included. 1. What is the “/Coating layer/ on the cathode satisfying some special requirements;?” This information is likely a University/researcher trade secret or part of a patent being prepared—more likely a trade secret IMHO. I would guess the coating is a compound that reduces the work function for absorption of H and D into the crystal lattice of the cathode. And that the cathode lattice is composed of atoms heavy enough to entail “heavy electrons” in their atomic electronic structure closest to their nucleus. Electrons that are too heavy will not work to produce LENR, because of a lack of the appropriate energy to allow conservation of energy and angular momentum in one reaction. TOO BAD—SO GOES OPEN SCIENCE. Bob Cook ----------------------------------- From: Andrew Meulenberg<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 7:46 PM To: VORTEX<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Vo]:D. Alexandrov, Proposal for the development of an LENR reactor I have rejected the common concept of "heavy" electrons as applicable to LENR by simple reasoning. The definition of electron and hole effective mass in a semiconductor refers to the acceleration in that material from a force applied, m = F/a). This mass increase does not apply within a confinement site and, particularly, not at the nuclear level. Nevertheless, spatial confinement can significantly distort atomic orbital shapes and energy levels and this could lead to unusual effects. Also, confinement allows an increase in electron kinetic-energy levels and thus a decrease in average proximity of the electron to a nucleus. Nevertheless, the increased energy levels are on the eV level, not even at the 10s of eV level. On the other hand, such confinement, while not as great as that produced by the higher mass of a muon, can have a significant effect (nearly an order-of-magnitude) on the number of interactions per second with, and on the tunneling probability of atomic electrons into, nuclei in the confinement region. Unfortunately, any nuclear reaction induced by such electrons will be limited and of the "hot" fusion type. It takes something more to make relativistic electrons. That is where the deep-electron orbits enter the picture. They can have binding energies in the hundreds of keV and kinetic energies in the 100s of MeV. This would not give hot-fusion type results. Strangely enough, the deep orbits are long predicted by relativistic quantum mechanics. They just were not believed because nobody had seen them, or their results. With cold fusion, we can now see their results. Andrew _ _ _ On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:08 PM [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Several leading questions about “heavy electrons”: * Do heavy electrons fit in the standard Model? * If so, what is their relativistic KE? * If relativistic. What keeps them from leaving the semi conductor surface? Bob Cook From: Jones Beene <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2019 6:28:44 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Vo]:D. Alexandrov, Proposal for the development of an LENR reactor Interesting. Alexandrov's concept of providing "heavy electrons" as apparently are seen in semiconductor technology - in order to catalyze the fusion of hydrogen and deuterium sounds a lot like muon catalyzed fusion. In fact the muon is sometimes referred to as a "heavy electron" since it is a heavy lepton. Curious that he does not emphasize that connection as it would add to the credibility of his concept. Muon catalyzed fusion was proved over fifty years ago beyond any doubt. However, muon catalyzed fusion is "hot". This has no gammas. Is this something in between ? Jones Jed Rothwell wrote: See: http://canadiancor.com/proposal-for-the-development-of-an-lenr-reactor/ QUOTE Proposal for the development of an LENR reactor Introduction: Canadian researcher, Dr. Dimiter Alexandrov, Lakehead University, in his semiconductor research laboratory, performed successful replicable LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reaction) experiments considering interactions of both deuterium and hydrogen gases with certain metals in a vacuum chamber. The products of these LENR experiments were helium (both stable isotopes He-3 and He-4) and heat. No radiation above the normal background was detected during the experiments. He also developed a theory explaining the observed experimental outcomes. Based on this early work he has prepared the following proposal to develop a LENR reactor which is being submitted for the next stage of his R&D. . . .
