http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/656/2/1104/pdf/65659.web.pdf
NEUTRINO-ACCELERATED HOT HYDROGEN BURNING Kishimoto and Fuller, Department of Physics, UC San Diego CONCLUSION - They examined the effects of a high flux of electron antineutrinos on the simplest kind of hydrogen fusion. They found that the traditional positron decay bottleneck in hydrogen burning can be removed and replaced by much faster reactions. This would result in an increase of several orders of magnitude in the energy generation rate over what would be expected without such a flux. COMMENT - The solar neutrino flux is immense on earth, but poorly absorbed by common elements at normal density. About 3 percent of the total energy radiated by the sun is in the form of neutrinos, and the flux on earth is on the order of 10^11 per square centimeter per second, day or night. Unfortunately, the fact that "neutrinos escape so easily from the sun" implies that they are always going to be difficult to capture on earth. Neutrinos go though the earth easily, even though the center of the earth contains dense iron. However, there are underlying assumptions in the most general statement, which are not completely justified, even though it is routinely taught that way. IOW - it is the mainstream belief among cosmologists is that a dense plasma, solar density, does not absorb neutrinos at a significantly higher rate than does normal matter, and by implication "dense cold matter" would be the same or less. However, we have no proof for the 'truth' of the possibility that dense cold hydrogen (in the range of 10^29 atoms per cubic cm) could not absorb orders of magnitude more neutrinos than expected, just because dense hot hydrogen does not "appear" to absorb more. That density works out to thousands of times higher than the iron in the earth's core. However, this figure is the density that Miley and Holmlid have measured, so it is not a random choice. "Ultrahigh-density deuterium of Rydberg matter clusters for inertial confinement fusion targets" L. Holmlid, H. Hora, G. Miley and X. Yang, Laser and Particle Beams 27 (2009) 529-532. ERGO - since we do not even know the percentage of neutrinos that is captured in situ in the sun (and it could be large if self-capture were to partly explain the neutrino 'shortfall' for instance) then we can make no valid conclusion about neutrino capture in IRH (inverted Rydberg hydrogen) on earth. I hope you can see the circular logic inherent in the mainstream belief (that neutrinos are poorly absorbed in general, no matter the density or phase of the target). We can only say with certainty that that many tons of dry cleaning fluid (etc, etc) absorb very few neutrinos. No problem with that. This belief that the rate does not change in a dense cold medium - may or may not be true, but cannot necessarily be assumed true, if evidence exists to suggest otherwise. There is no good evidence so far, and no reason to rock the boat. Bottom line: no one can say (yet) that H+H fusion at a higher than expected rate is what is going on in the Rossi or any other device - that awaits the confirmation that deuterium is found in the ash. Till then, we can accept his stated belief that Ni --> Cu transmutation, as awkward as it is compared to what is expected, is the driving reaction. If deuterium is eventually found as the ash of his any form of nano Ni-H reaction (not just Rossi) where dense hydrogen can be formed, then this hypothesis of enhanced neutrino capture by IRH should be revisited. Jones
