Lewis Larsen (Lattice Energy LLC) has posted a new presentation entitled -
"Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENRs)
New neutron data consistent with WLS mechanism in lightning" - at -
http://www.slideshare.net/lewisglarsen
He presents evidence that electrons and protons in coherent/collective
motion on metal hydride surfaces, where e-m energy is highly focused, can
form low momentum neutrons which initiate LENR events.
Slides 18-20 ("Nucleosynthesis in exploding wires and lightning I-III")
review the very old (1922) controversy between Wendt and Rutherford on
whether large current pulses through tungsten wires could induce
transmutations. (See preprint: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0709.1222.pdf).
Wendt, using intense current pulses of strongly inductively coupled
electrons, saw transmutations, whereas Rutherford, using a sparse beam of
uncoupled high velocity electrons, saw none. Rutherford's eminence
trumped Wendt's more modest reputation.
Now, this cannot be a difficult, nor expensive, experiment to reproduce -
using Wendt's procedure, not Rutherford's.
Has anyone tried to reproduce it?
