In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Sun, 1 May 2011 18:11:37 -0400: Hi, [snip] >On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 6:02 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ...note that X-rays are indistinguishable from low energy gamma rays. In >> short >> it's quite possible that X-rays are being produced, and being mistaken for >> gamma >> rays. >> The only difference is the origin of the radiation. Gamma rays come directly >> from the nucleus. > >The transition from hard x to ? occurs at about 30 keV; but, the >process posited by the inventors would generate two photons totalling >1.22 MeV. What could be the source of x-rays if not some type of >non-nuclear process? It is an interesting idea because of recent >research on transmutation due to x-rays. > >T
The positrons that Rossi expects may not show up if enhanced electron capture replaces positron production. An electron in or very near the nucleus would all but ensure this. Furthermore, if only Ni62/64 are reacting, then no positron would be expected anyway. It's conceivable that the energy of the reaction is being carried by a fast electron (Internal Conversion reaction). IC reactions produce monoenergetic electrons. These then in turn would produce X-rays. However only about 1% of fast electrons produce X-rays, only a portion of which is bremsstrahlung, and only a small portion of that is at the top end of the spectrum, so perhaps after passing through 2 cm of Lead, not enough are left to be readily detected. (Actually, I hardly believe this myself ;) However I have written to Levi, suggesting that he look for such electrons anyway. Of course it's also possible that the vast majority of the energy is just Hydrino shrinkage energy, and the occasional rare fusion reaction is taking place. The fusion rate may be very low, and consequently highly variable explaining the differing results from each experiment. Note that if a Hydrino multiplication process is involved, then the results would likely depend on which Hydrino level happened to predominate, and consequently get multiplied. If it were a highly shrunken level then all the new ones would also be highly shrunken, possibly resulting in many fusion reactions. If it happened to be a low or mid range one, then fusion reactions would be rare and energy output would predominantly be from Hydrino production. Perhaps in the future we will be able to control the selection process. ;) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
