Examining the web's limited oscillon information, it would appear that it is important that the powder not be bound to the side of the reactor as conjectured by others. The powder must remain free and could be located in the center of the reactor as stated on the ecat.com web site.
Also, if oscillon activity does explain the anomalous heat in the Rossi Reactor, it is easily understood why an external exciter is necessary, eg the "frequencies" described by AR. Now comes the speculation for the heat source. It definitely could be a ZPF heat generator considering that the standing collisions could be limiting the pair formation much like a Casimir cavity or could be allowing rapid pair separation similar to the "mirror" discussed previously. In such case, the energy source could really be positron annihilation, each one liberating 0.511 MeV. I think Ahern, et al have found the secret with this oscillon theory. If so, the new game begins. Here is a simple explanation of oscillons: http://www.raczynski.com/art/oscillon.htm T
