The suggested method of duplicating the Rossi experiment by chemical
means can be scaled up, both in parallel and in series. However, the
thermal output for 100 devices would then very obviously be 200 kW,
not 1.2 MW. The output from 500 devices, or even just 100 devices
with 5 times the zeolite, would produce a MW of thermal output, however.
If the device actually creates nuclear reactions, then there is,
according to deflation fusion theory, a good prospect that hyperons
and hypernuclei are also created. There is just a bit of evidence
K0_long kaons were being created, because a low level of radiation
was observed by Celani that was "erratic".
Celani reports: "I brought my own gamma detector, a battery-operated
1.25″ NaI(Tl) with an energy range=25keV-2000keV. I measured some
increase of counts near the reactor (about 50-100%) during operation,
in an erratic (unstable) way, with respect to background." See:
http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/01/18/rossi-and-focardi-lenr-
device-celani-report/
http://tinyurl.com/4djya8
The production of kaons would appear "erratic" because (1) it is a
function of cosmic ray activity, (2) it has a chain reaction quality
to it that depends on hyperon build-up, i.e. hyperon and hypernuclei
density in the active material, and (3) the positron decay intensity
for the K0_long particles would be in a volume away from the device
itself, possibly by a meter or more. In other words, up close to the
device, the positrons produced by kaon decay would be observed to
increase in density with distance instead of diminish as 1/r^2 as
expected. Further, the detection of such remotely decaying kaons
requires that the volume the coincidence counters examine not be the
device itself, but a volume away from the device. The coincidence
counters used in the experiment were (time) focused on the device.
The probability of observing such events away from the device might
be enhanced by placing a paraffin block, a liter or so in volume,
between two NaI counters with coincidence counting, and locating the
block at distances from the device varying from up close to 3 m. A
positron decay peak should be observed away from the device itself.
Because hyperon decay occurs with increasing distance from the
device, a chain reaction increases in likelyhood as the size of the
device increases. Also, according to deflation fusion theory, the
K0_long mesons created by deflation fusion, having initially low
internal energy, may have extended half lives, and might be at least
momentarily, absorbed by heavy nuclei, thus creating kaon
hypernuclei. Such nuclei would build up at a distance of up to 2
meters from the experiment. Low internal energy kaons could also
accumulate in water or wax or other material in or near the
experiment, including humans.
The important point here is, if strange reactions actually occur in
the device, accumulating hyper nuclei, even if not producing
significant excess heat, then scaling up by orders of magnitude can
have unexpected consequences.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
