-----Original Message----- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax > Premature promotion of the energy generation possibilities of cold fusion may play into the skeptical position.
This is not a worry. On the contrary, a young and talented experimenter who may be a fence-straddler and new to the field, but who might not have thought of these possibilities, might instead catch the spark of inspiration which motivates him/her to discover the breakthrough... that is, by being able to envision and focus on an "end-game" that makes practical sense... (instead of the low success rate). This is particularly true of niche you mentioned - Kervran and Vyosotskii and biological transmutation, which goes back a long way in time, with dozens of historical replications, mostly in Europe and not available in digital form, but little of more modern vintage. IOW - this niche is ripe, except for the lack of an apparent 'end-game' ... at least one that is valid to any species which does not lay eggs :) Having set myself up with that well-designed "segue", consider this: the glow discharge line of experiment, mentioned previously, suffers from the practical problem of electrode erosion. The electrodes also become activated with transmutation products. Powering a Bloom box with two thirds of its H2 needs might consume several kg of electrodes per month. Deal breaker. Leading to this possibility for a strange hybrid, which includes a glow discharge reactor, a Bloom box converter and a bio-growth tank, in which strains of radiodurans are poised to convert CO2 and electrode isotopes into more valuable byproducts - to essentially pay for everything. That is not preposterous with Platinum headed to $2000 ounce, and realizing Pt is basically two alphas+ removed from lead. This might encourage someone to try lead electrodes, the detritus of which serves as a side dish for a strain of bacteria. Side note: radiodurans sounds like a rock group, no? (that was intended to be a double pun). Sure, this is getting out there into the Rube Goldberg range of fanciful complexity, with a dash of ill-timed humor tossed in - but that is what inspires a lot of young creative nerds... especially if Dad, the famous professor, is a total skeptic. What LENR needs more than anything else these days is young creative nerds taking an interest, to replace the dinosaurs who are dying-off in droves. Jones
