Electrons of a few hundred volts, which is the best explanation offered
by the author, has the problem you mention: absence of the radiation
signature in a vacuum. Unless, that is, the electrons are not primary
(from the sample) but instead are coming from the oxygen (air) itself.
How could that be? Why wouldn't electrons also come from helium? Is this
a supra-chemical reaction similar to an Auger cascade?
Also, since the radiation effect seems to be absent with helium and
argon present, both of which are hydrino catalysts, one might assume
that the Mills' hydrino - Hy- (if it exists at all in nature) could not
be involved in this.
However, IF the hydrino is real and is created through the loading of
hydrogen or deuterium into a Pd matrix, and then gradually seeps out
during the film-exposure stage (many hours) - as a hydride, then that
scenario could explain this. It is the only scenario which I can imagine
which fits the facts, and still requires that the species have the same
preferential affinity for oxygen which hydrogen has.
The Hy- ion, hydrino-hydride would act like a heavy electron and would
replace one of the inner electrons in the O2 molecule, and then the
expelled Auger electron from the oxygen would be expected to have that
range of potential (few hundred volts) which is witnessed.
Nice experiment, if it can be trusted.
Jed Rothwell wrote:
See:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RoutRKphenomenon.pdf
These results are baffling because the reaction only occurs in the
presence of air. It does not work with a vacuum, helium or nitrogen gas
(p. 2).
