Hey Vortex Gang, My primary question motivating this post/query is to get a consensus on whether the presence of radiation is a necessary prerequisite for LENR/Cold Fusion Effects. IOW, is radiation ALWAYS present when an LENR/Cold Fusion effect occurs.
On one hand, there appears to be copious evidence that radiation of some form or another is present during an LENR process. On the other hand, many people, including many here in Vortex appears to brush aside the evidence of radiation as circumstantial and unverified. What is the consensus? Is Radiation always present? Is Radiation a foolproof indication of an LENR process? This question is prompted after mulling over what Axil suggested to me a few post back. In his suggestion to my experimental protocols, he suggested I consider integrating a Cloud Chamber into my experiments. Well, after thinking about it for a while and trying to come up with a suitable way of integrating a "HOT" reactor inside a "COLD" cloud chamber; I have come to the conclusion that it might be beyond my technical and financial ability to do so. So, instead, I have come up with the second best thing. I have been thinking of integrating my reactor, not into a Cloud Chamber, but rather into an Ion Chamber design. Integrating a hot reactor into an Ion chamber appears to be straightforward and simple. So, instead of using flow calorimetry to detect excess heat in an LENR process, I will be using the Ion chamber to detect radiation. As far as I know, there is no known chemical process that releases radiation, if the reactants start from non-radioactive elements. So, if I detect radiation, high enough to be detectable in a DIY Ion chamber, then that excess radiation must be way above ambient, which means that there is only one possible conclusion - that my reactor inside the Ion chamber is releasing radiation. And since the reactor walls would be thick(er), most of the detected radiation would not be Alphas and Betas, but rather higher energy gammas. And if I am detecting copious gammas, then an LENR reaction must be the source. I'm thinking this might be a more straightforward way of detecting LENR reactions, rather than Heat calorimetry. What do you guys? Is this a good way to hunt for the LENR/Rossi process and catalysts?
