On Dec 1, 2011, at 12:33 PM, [email protected] wrote:
According to Piantelli, his device produces loads of protons.
The 6-7 MeV protons observed can not provide most of the heat of
Rossi's E-cat. This is because they will generate high energy
bremsstrahlung, which is not observed in correspondence to the
thermal wattage produced by Rossi. Their production mechanism I
think is not tied to any transmutation. The reaction is p + Ni = p
+ Ni + energy? If so, the net energy has to come from somewhere and
the only place it can come from is the zero point sea. I provided a
specific mechanism by which this can happen in an earlier post.
That high energy protons have been detected at all, however, I think
is very useful, especially in the energy range observed. They are a
signature of the underlying process, just as very very low counts of
tritium are a signature of deuterium LENR, and a ratio of neutrons to
tritium of 10^6 to 10^-8 is also a signature of deuterium LENR.
Neutron production in LENR is very very low, but countable in the
right conditions, such as underground facilities. Still these
signatures, branch ratio changes from hot fusion ratios, provide an
excellent clue as to the underlying mechanism. I discuss this branch
ratio modifying mechanism on pp 5-10 of:
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/CFnuclearReactions.pdf
The branch ratio anomaly has been known for many years. For example,
see:
http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Srinivasannuclearfus.pdf
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
