From: Jed Rothwell
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/CelaniFdeuteronel.pdf
> Excellent Work! Fabulous Paper. This could end up being one of the most
important papers on the entire LENR site.
JR: Yes. If this can be replicated it is a major breakthrough.
Well - given that the Italian group set out with the expressed intention of
validating or even improving on the now famous A&Z (Arata/Zhang) finding, even
if they did not replicate it precisely - they essentially validate the main
parameter, which the importance nanoparticles below 10nm; and given that they
succeeded and even exceeded Arata; then the two experiments: Celani and Arata
are pretty much mutual validations of each other wrt the importance of a
specific geometric size of active particle.
Do you not see it another way?
BTW - that nano size range could possibly describe the more general or
protypical "active site" i.e. the Storms' "NAS" (nuclear active site) which is
probably an "exciton" whether it is intended to be or not - and this could
happen in many if not most LENR experiments, even when the material is bulk or
plated. An inadvertant surface treatment or natural acid etching or crack could
do this.
This critical factor (size range) could be the crux of these two experiments
taken together - and with further implications that since even bulk material
can differentiate into excitons of a particular size naturally, and this was
simply not noticed before Arata, but could have always been the unspoken
determinant for anomalous heating. In fact it probably was noticed before, but
no one took it too seriously until Arata documented lots of heat which was seen
for days on end - with zero input.
In fact, there are possibly one or two (or more) other recent experiments which
are based specifically on nanoparticles below 10nm. I am hoping that two more
papers - from the Poster sessions from ICCF14 will be available.
1) Jacques Dufour of France "An experimental device, built to test the
hypothesis of "picochemistry" (chemistry at picometer distance)
Implications in the LENR field". The model for this is called YPCP ("Yukawa
Pico Chemistry And Physics") and that would be worthy of discussion.
2) Scott Chubb "Roles of Finite Size and Interfaces in Triggering Excess Heat in
Nanometer-scale PdD and Composite Nanometer-scale Compounds Containing
Pd, D, and ZrO2 in the Pons-Fleischmann Excess Heat Effect"
There are probably more papers with a focus on the 2-10 nm range. Can anyone
add to the list?
At least these two 'sounded on point' from the brief writeup, but were not
available on the LENR site when I downloaded Celani. Often the Posters are not
available at all. Will these be?
Jones
