*I think tritium is actually better proof of a nuclear reaction because it is so easy to measure. It does not seem to correlate with anything else.*
There is a big difference between the various isotopes of hydrogen: deuterium and protium in regards to it quantum mechanical behavior and associated efficacy of their respective use in the cold fusion reaction. I aggree with Peter Glick, I think that deuterium is greatly handicapped because its nucleus is a boson. This type of hydrogen nuclei cannot form cooper pairs. The nucleus of protium is a proton which can form cooper pairs and fits well into the LENR+ reaction. If superconductive behavior is important in cold fusion as witnessed by the lack of radiation and associated unstable isotopes, being a fermion is important when it comes to the greatly expanded cross section of the cold fusion reaction. Even if looking for tritium is easy, so what! The reaction may be so anemic (aka LENR) that is not useful in power generation. Protium is more productive when it participates in the LENR+ reaction even if it only leaves all sorts of non-tritium hard to detect transmutation products behind. Cheers: Axil On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with this analysis. > > Some of Abd's fond hopes will not be realized. Trying to get cold fusion > researchers to cooperate is like herding cats. > > I think Abd exaggerates the extent to which helium correlated with heat > gave a firm foundation to the claims. I think the claims were conclusively > established before helium results emerged. I think tritium is actually > better proof of a nuclear reaction because it is so easy to measure. It > does not seem to correlate with anything else. > > Expert such as Gerischer who looked at the data carefully in 1991 had no > doubt whatever that the effect is real. Gerischer noted that helium had > recently been reported but he had no firm data yet, and he did not say his > belief was conditional upon helium results. > > See: > > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/GerischerHiscoldfusi.pdf > > - Jed > >
