Jones,
Not valuable. No market. Who would buy it? What would you use it for?
Half-life of tritium (hydrogen-3) is 12.3 yr.
Warm Regards,
Reliable, a thinking person
Jones Beene wrote:
Eric - perhaps the original post should have been phrased as “zero
believable evidence”… instead of zero evidence. The paper does
constitute putative “evidence” after all – actually rather convincing
if it could be taken at face value.
Romodanov is a mystery. If what he was seeing and reporting was
accurate (tritium from hydrogen in very significant quantities) – it
should have led to a lucrative method for producing an extremely
valuable isotope, especially to some countries. Aside from the science
involved, this paper has dollar signs (actually Rials) written all
over it. Yet the work apparently fizzled after 2003.
Also, the paper is almost “too convincing” to be accurate given what
Claytor has published (using deuterium). In the ensuing years, there
has been no outside replication of Romodanov, or progress which shows
up in the public record. Plus, it is no secret that there are
thousands of severely underpaid, top-level scientists in Russia who
are desperate to move to the West, under almost any pretense … they
have little way to show off their wares other than slick papers,
especially if they come with an implied threat.
In short, a cynic might opine that this is more a feeler for
continuing employment in a more hospitable locale, as it is bona fide
science. But it would be instructive to know more of the story.
*From:* Eric Walker
Tritium is radioactive, so the evidence of radioactivity in the ash of
the Ni-H reaction is nonzero…. Romodanov et al., "Nuclear reactions in
condensed media and X-ray," Seventh International Conference on Cold
Fusion, 1998.
