Looking for the Proton- Lithium-7 ---> 2 He-4 + 17 MeV reaction, in 1975 I used water from a 100 ft deep tube-well laced with LiOH in a Stainless Steel pressure cooker and the low current discharge from a Neon Sign Transformer (about 30 Kv at 60 milliamperes) to the top of the water and saw a very rapid rise of pressure in the air trapped above the pool sufficient to heat the pressure cooker lid and extinguish the discharge in a matter of seconds, even though the water in the pool stayed cold and there wasn't enough energy to make enough steam generated to cause the pressure increase. The discharge would restart as soon as the pressure dropped and then quit again in a matter of seconds. This cycle could go on for hours. I tried using wood ash leach (K2CO3-KOH) and Salt Water and even Boric Acid in the water for a Control\, but the effect persisted. I reported this effect to the Los Alamos "Scyllac" Team and was invited up for a meeting with them so they shoot down any thoughts of nuclear fusion. "Ludicrous" was the verdict.
If my physics is correct, a detached neutron has about a 12 minute lifetime, but bound to a proton forms a stable deuteron and judging from low energy deuteron stripping, there are different levels of bound states that allow the neutron's survival. I see no reason why a Negatively-Charged Muon picked up from Atmosphere-Lithosphere Cosmic Ray Interactions cannot do the same thing. IOW, the "Cheshire Cat" CF-OU effects depend on where the Muon is in an atom, being less than 870 eV (13.6 * Z^2 volts for "hydrogenic" oxygen) or 4400 eV for Argon and 4900 eV for Potassium etc. but somewhere in their electron cloud where a close encounter with a Proton or Deuteron penetrating the atom's electron cloud can sequester them with a higher energy release. Perhaps water from Lake Baikal or Moldovan rivers that the Yusmar runs on, or ice from Mount Everest contains the putative bound Muon for use in OU-CF experiments. Fred
