In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:53:20 -0400: Hi, [snip] >I'd far rather see a retrospective of replications of Mizuno's >incandescent W experiment, which continues to bother me because it uses >light water; so much so that I periodically resolve to survey the >literature myself and write a summary (but haven't quite gotten around >to it). AFAIK the current CF theories, such as they are, can't account >for light-water fusion. > A quick comment on light water. There is enough D present in ordinary water, such that if the fusion energy content were averaged out over all the H in the water you get 12 MeV / 6800 ~= 1765 eV / atom. This is still way more than chemical energy, and could IMO easily explain the light water results. There are two assumptions here:- 1) The fusion reaction is D+D->He4. 2) Protium doesn't take part in the reaction.
Either or both of these could be wrong, but it wouldn't make much difference. Any nuclear reaction involving a Hydrogen isotope is going to yield heat way beyond chemistry (one of Jed's quotes?). What I'm really trying to say is that even if only the small quantity of D in ordinary water were responsible, the results could still be explained. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
