At 04:05 PM 3/28/2012, Axil Axil wrote:
This isn't LENR. Get that straight. If this is real, it's hot
fusion, which is precisely why it is so dangerous. Bubble fusion
creates very high temperatures in the collapse of the bubbles, and
there have been reports of energetic neutrons from bubble fusion,
which remain controversial. (Normally, the known temperatures of
bubble collapse are still below the temperatures needed for hot fusion.)
For the sake of argument, assuming the information we get from
LeClair was true, his process cannot be hot fusion.
First of all, when I wrote "if real," I was not assuming that every
report was accurate, only that the broad outlines were real.
Let us look at this question from the perspective of astrophysics.
He talks about transmuting heavy elements far beyond the atomic
number of iron. This is beyond the heat range of fusion reactions
produced inside the hottest stars even during their last frantic
seconds of collapse into a supernova were iron sinks to the heart of
a stars center in milliseconds.
Only the fusion of a supernova can produce transuranics and rare
earth elements.
I think that's true.
Therefore, since LeClair is still alive and kicking here on earth,
any heavy element transmutation reaction he saw (if any) must by
necessity of his continued existence be cold fusion.
That does not follow. Le Clair claims to have created "crystals" that
are accelerated to relativistic velocities. The collision temperature
for these crystals would be extremely high, and could indeed be
supernova-level. That doesn't mean that the whole environment was at
that temperature.
He claims to have nearly died, by the way.
But I have no idea why Le Clair thinks he got trans-uranic elements.
He's said a lot of stuff.
His *technique* is one that will produce, if it works, extremely high
temperatures through bubble collapse. Absolutely, this is not cold
fusion. That, however, would not be hot enough (I assume) to reach to
"supernova" temperatures. To take the extremely high temperatures of
bubble fusion and then say that because it couldn't produce supernova
temperatures, it must be "cold fusion" is ... a reason why I don't
write here much any more.
