At 05:34 PM 4/25/2012, Akira Shirakawa wrote:
Hello group,
Mizzou Weekly is "A publication for the faculty and staff of the
University of Missouri, published every Thursday during the academic
year and twice a month during the summer by Publications and Alumni
Communication, a department of University Affairs".
Surprisingly, last week they published on their website an article
on LENR that isn't negative or dismisses the matter with the usual
23-year old arguments!
Link:
http://mizzouweekly.missouri.edu/archive/2012/33-28/reactor/index.php
That's not particularly surprising, given what else is happening at
the U of Missouri.
What's missing from the article is any clue as to what, exactly, they
will be investigating about "cold fusion" or LENR using a cyclotron
and deuteron bombardment of palladium. There are certain lines of
research that have been suggested that might be involved. But they
are not, or are not clearly, direct investigation of the reactions,
as implied by the article. They could, for example, be looking for
the velocity distribution of deuterons in PdD, or investigating
fusion cross-section in the low energy range and under confinement
(Takahashi developed his theory from evidence from such bombardment,
finding evidence for multibody reactions at 10^26 more frequently
than naive expectation under plasma conditions).
Or they might be looking for evidence of gamma screening from
Widom-Larsen's "heavy electron patches."
