Of interest – could the heat of the Mizuno device be partly or mostly nuclear… but also … NON-fusion and NON-weak force ?
A mass-energy value which keeps turning up in dense hydrogen cluster papers is 630 eV. It apparently relates to energy released by a cluster of dense hydrogen which has become disordered. This is a measured value – not a theory. This value is mentioned many times by Miley and also by Mizuno. This is an unusually strong value energetically for chemistry but weak for nuclear. For comparison the chemical bond energy of two deuterons to each other is 4.5 eV and the weakest beta emission is in the few keV range. 630 eV would be middle ground – a very soft x-ray which few meters can detect. There is a Rydberg multiple at ~625 eV but it seems crazy to suggest that this would be a favored value for Mills’ theory as it doesn’t turn up in any of his papers. The BEC cluster of deuterons which are bound to each other by a poorly understood mechanism are said to contain around 100 atoms by Miley’s group and less than that by Holmlid who sees the structure as linear as opposed to globular. Apparently both seem to believe the numberof atoms in a BEC is not random. I am wondering if the common denominator between energies which are hi-chem but low-nuke has anything to do with Don Hotson’s EPO. Why? The ionization potential of positronium is 6.8 eV. Hotson envisioned a universal background “aether” to be composed of EPOs – basically positronium in 4 space. Presumably it would still have the same characteristic binding energy. Thus, In a cluster of around 100 deuterons at 2 pm separation, bound in some kind of stable arrangement, if about 93 of them acted as a single unit in decay, then possibly the result would be a single photon of this value 630 eV. That is a huge stretch as there is absolutely no reason to suspect that there could be such a favored number of atoms nor that they would act in unison. But QM is strange and QCD is stranger. There are no satisfactory explanations for now - but the beauty of the recent news from Mizuno is that now - at long last there appears to be a justifiable expectation for finding on demand power at the kilowatt level without gamma radiation. The real clincher of the announcement is the image that has been imprinted on physicists everywhere - that fabulous image of the Mizuno reactor taken in from of a fireplace, reportedly providing winter time heat in one of the colder parts of Japan. An instant classic !! Jones
