-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] > "Jones, Sure, some of those experiments produce hot plasmas, but there are many experimental results which appear to produce transmutations with temperatures too low to produce collisions energetic enough for fusion"...
Lou - yes that is absolutely true. But there is a middle ground. This goes back a few decades to Philo Farnsworth - the inventor of television. He was obsessed with fusion at lower but not low energy. The Farnsworth Fusor is the main case in point for the middle ground (and "exploding wires" is next). This is a completely different regime than LENR. Indeed W-L may have some relevance to warm fusion, but none to LENR. Copious neutrons from both these devices (Fusor and exploding wire) are documented at input energies of about 10 keV instead of the fusion threshold of over 1 MeV for real fusion (100 times less). Thus, the name often applied to these two reactions is "warm fusion." They are triggered with 100 times more energy than LENR, but are 100 time colder than thermonuclear fusion. Mas o menos. The wild card which explains everything is the Oppenheimer-Phillips effect, aka the "deuteron stripping" reaction, or "OP effect" which is the removal of a neutron from deuterium. Wiki has an entry but it is probably the most flawed Wiki entry I have read. There is better information in the Vortex archive. Jones
