You description of nuclear active sites reminds me of the operation of a laser. If the excited atoms such as copper due to a reaction between nickel and a proton maintain the excess energy for a long time(many seconds according to wikipedia), maybe it can be stimulated by the proper trigger to cascade with others. Seems like a form of population inversion waiting to release the stored energy.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Horace Heffner <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Dec 22, 2011 1:14 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]: Cosmic Trigger? On Dec 22, 2011, at 7:41 AM, Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint wrote: Horace: The problem I see with some kind of outside trigger is that the “turn-on” of excess heat would occur randomly… how does one control when that cosmic ray or muon will initiate the reaction? In one of the demos, it appeared to turn on at a specific temperature. -mark Cosmic ray background is random but essentially a continuous condition on the time scale of nuclear active site generation. Nuclear active sites capable of chain reactions are not dense. They are islands which apparently grow with time, otherwise events many orders of magnitude larger than 10^4 fusions would occur. The size of craters would not be nearly uniform. The cross section of such islands to cosmic rays etc. apparently grows slowly, and is affected by temperature, and external conditions and forms of stimulation. This is one reason LENR can not be expected to be useful for nuclear explosives. Triggers in the form of cosmic rays and other background radiation are constantly present in the environment. The active sites have to be generated on demand. Practical LENR is inherently a dynamic process. Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
