Imagine a similar experimental setup as in Fig.1 or the Oriana paper, except that
1) the item labeled "stopper" is a EV photocell, with or without a high pass filter grating 2) the layer labeled "CR39" is instead an electrically conductive pinhole array (similar to a high pressure espresso filter) and serves as the cathode (which is eliminated). 3) the pinhole array has been co-plated (on the electrolyte facing surface) with Pd-D in an extremely thin coating (few nm) ... will the photocell detect EUV on the application of current? My bet is yes. It is almost a certainty that there is no mechanism in standard physics for EUV in the range >10 eV photonic energy - from the application of sub watt DC current in the range of a few volts. How meaningful is that EUV result, if positive? How meaningful is that result, when bolstered with the positive Oriani CR39 result? How meaningful is the Beaty, Driscoll et al replication of Oriani, combined with both of the above. If a (few nm) layer of plated Ni-Pd-D (i.e. the Arata alloy ratio) is then tried and gives and even better result, in terms of photon count - how meaningful is that addition ? Are we approaching rock solid evidence of a true nuclear anomaly, and a tentative explanation for it, yet? If results are positive for EUV, then one implication it that the energy released from LENR is largely photonic, but below the gamma spectrum - and that the Hagelstein "magic phonon" nonsense is superfluous and should be abandoned. There are other implications, but that one alone - EUV as the primary energy release source- is well worth any reasonable effort. The one key sticking point with all LENR vis-à-vis all of mainstream physics, in accepting that "real fusion" has occurred, as the Zimmerman quip evidences - has been the glaring lack of detectable higher energy photons. If it can be shown simply that there is EUV emission instead of gammas, and consequently no need of a pure invention (like magic phonons) then that single fact goes a long, long way in the minds of that influential class of skeptic. One still must explain a valid mechanism for downshifting to EUV, but that has essentially already been accomplished to some extent when one accepts that we are dealing with QM tunneling reactions, not thermonuclear 'brute force' reactions. Jones -----Original Message----- From: Horace Heffner According to Richard Oriani, production of nuclear projectiles due to electrolysis, using his protocol (1), is highly reproducible. 1) R.A. Oriani Reproducible Evidence for the Generation of a Nuclear Reaction During Electrolysis, Proceeding of the 14th Int. Conf. on Cold Fusion, October 2008,
