-----Original Message----- From: Horace Heffner > Takahashi has a serious problem here, because there is no decay mode which can release energy in numerous small energy packets - without an electron present in the nucleus - a possibility Takahashi has firmly denied in the past.
I think that there is a good but unused model for this - the Bosenova. It is true that Takahashi does not yet recognize it, but he is one sharp observer, and by the next ACS, he probably will have incorporated it. > If there were such a non-electron mode, e.g. coupling the energy across thousands of nuclei throughout the lattice, then the D + D -> He4 reaction could do the same, and there is no need for the Be8 model to begin with. Also, if you work out the geometry you will see that putting two D2 molecules into a tetrahedral site is not realistic. But - here you are assuming the standard Bohr radius. This is where some version of the fractional hydrogen concept can come to the rescue, and there is a bit of validation from Takahashi, and Kidwell (NLR), and Kitamura and others for it, as well as the others espousing "deuterium clusters" (Miley, Storms) or "Rydberg matter." Here is where it gets interesting. I think Takahashi et al. is partially correct with the "deuterium cluster" notion, and then we can go beyond the TSC, so it is no longer valid. Moreover, there is no need for Rydberg matter, if Robin is correct on the extent of shrinkage when an "energy hole" is present. Figure 22 C in the Takahashi comments - on the work of Kitamura - show the dramatic increase in power from "mixed oxides" even though he was still not using particles which were small enough. (assuming that we need <10 nm particle size to maximize the effect). I am growing increasingly certain that the role of zirconium is Arata is to provide "reversible oxygen" to the palladium nickel alloy and to provide a Mills-like "energy hole" but completely solid-state (no plasma). However, I say "Mills-like" since RM did NOT discover the O++ connection. By "reversible oxygen" it is meant that some oxygen ions (O++) will shuttle back and forth between the ceramic surface layer, and the surface of the Ni-Pd nanoparticle. This NEVER happens in a vacuum or plasma because of oxygen's high electron affinity. That is why Mills missed it. In so doing O++ will present to deuterium the "energy hole" of 54.4 eV. This is the one that journalist Hoshiri Yamamoto discovered. There is an earlier paper than this one from HY but the link is dead: http://devxb.elc.iwate-u.ac.jp/jcf/file/jcf4-13.pdf Anyway, this oxygen on the surface of Pd or Ni, will be the catalyst to effectively shrink the deuterium down to "clusters", given enough time. According to Robin's alternative version of Mills shrinkage IIRC the atomic diameter shrinks by a larger factor (3x per step ?), so that effectively these D-clusters can fill a void near the surface of the metal matrix of the nanoparticle with thousands of times more deuterium than normal after a period of time. This would be far less than Miley's Rydberg matter, but far more than the four of the 4D theory. This ultra-high fill-ratio could then be the predecessor stage to the transitory BEC "event" which then results in either an explosion or an implosion, when the magnetic field changes and this actually does have a good description from the mainstream - the "Bosenova" and it involves almost exactly the same number of atoms which can be involved in the lattice void. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosenova The Bosenova may or may not involve fusion, we simply do not know. But since there is adequate proof of it in mainstream literature - it benefits from not being the complete "invention" that Hagelstein or W-L must resort to in order to make everything work. This emergent theory may involve ZPE, as an alternative or as a predecessor modality. My personal favorite is that it invokes both ZPE and fusion, with the former operating as a predecessor event via the Casimir force - and the implosion/explosion serving to break up the few actual fusion events (one or two) into a large number of kinetic particles (>1000 atoms in the keV range of mass-energy) which are below the detection level of secondary gammas. This is all coming together towards a hybrid hypothesis that probably involves the Dirac epo field as the preliminary energy source, via the Casimir - and with actual fusion showing up "merely" as the QM balancing act. Almost an afterthought, were it not for CoE. I will be interested in what Don Hotson has to say about an epo connection - eventually, when all of these results get disseminated. Jones
