At 09:55 PM 4/5/2012, [email protected] wrote:
You are right - I did not intend to sound dogmatic.
Great.
I am beginning to wonder whether a couple of different phenomena, perhaps sharing a common denominator, are occurring - depending on experimental materials and procedures. Nature may be getting a little perverse here.
Pons and Fleischmann discovered a new territory, and a fabulous beast living there. If we look carefully at the new territory, we may find many beasts. Assuming there is only one is narrow. Maybe. Maybe not.
The Wendt-Irion exploding wire experiment did appear to produce Helium. Their original paper is - "EXPERIMENTAL ATTEMPTS TO DECOMPOSE TUNGSTEN AT HIGH TEMPERATURES" - Amer. Chem. Soc. 44 (1922) http://www.uf.narod.ru/science/WendtIrion.pdf Would this provide some link between CF and LENR if reproduced?
It could. However, it's a stretch to assume that techniques which get that hot will be the same as techniques relying on effects involving a lattice and that aren't known to exist at higher temperatures. So my starting assumption would be that they are different as to environment and mechanism.
However, it's possible that *in the process of vaporization" something is forced that is similar to what happens at lower temperatures. More likely, we might see "channeled fusion," i.e, hot fusion with an increased cross-section because of particle channelling.
The FPHE doesn't behave like hot fusion, as to product. I prefer to use the term "cold fusion," then for temperatures below the melting point of metals. But, as mentioned, one might be seeing a transitional effect. The metal hasn't melted yet, except maybe for part of it.
There were other observations, published and not, which hinted at LENR. They were explained away as error, once a *possible* error was identified. It was not necessarily shown that there was *actual error.*
Some scientists observed phenomena and didn't report it, a good example is Mizuno, who saw very substantial mysterious heat in highly loaded PdD, and just shrugged it off, until he later saw Pons and Fleischmann's announcement. Then he understood what he'd seen.
These were anecdotes, and not easily reproducible, they were rare.
