On Mar 24, 2010, at 1:04 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote:
Would you care to give your best guestamate (don't worry, I won't hold you to it) on how much is theorized to be due to d+d = He+24 MeV, and how much might be due to other processes? Incidentally, to the rest of the Vort Collective, please feel free to add your own speculations as to what these ratios or percentages might possibly be. I'm only asking for reasonable speculation. IOW, speculation is just that: Speculation.
This is somewhat like asking how much milk people buy at the store. It depends on the store. If it is a dairy store, then quite a lot. If it is a hardware store maybe not so much. Grocery stores a variable amount.
In a protium based experiment you might expect no alphas (4He), yet it has been published that some of these produce lots of excess heat. Some Pd-D gas diffusion experiments produce a lot of heavy element LENR.
Based on some of the Pd-D electrolysis data that was discussed here previously in relation to Steve Krivit's articles, and *assuming* running the cell in reverse freed up the near-surface deuterium by dissolving the cathode surface, it looks like energy from non-helium producing reactions could be anywhere from 0% to 100% of the net heat, with a mean maybe around 30%. Unfortunately, error bars were not given for the background or it would be possible to compute the overall error bars. If you *assume* 24 Mev per 4He then the excess energy, if there actually be such as the graph indicates, would then be from non-He4 producing reactions.
Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
