In reply to Jones Beene's message of Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:20:59 -0800: Hi, [snip] >Stated simply, much of the expected excess energy was already given up prior >to the actual nuclear reaction, via the non-nuclear "shrinkage" reaction >which pushed it below ground state, giving up heat in the form of UV >radiation. > >That is the part that BLP got right wrt hydrogen, and hinted at, back in the >early nineties wrt cold fusion, but it took these good experiments by >Arata/Zhang to actually document the transition into two distinct steps.
The problem with this is that if there isn't nearly enough He4 to explain the heat output, then most of the heat is coming from shrinkage. But if that is so then H should yield the same results as D. AFAIK, that isn't the case. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
