On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote:
*Thermacore ran a nickel hydrogen test cell for over a year and no > transmutation was reported. *To me that says it all,* *and nothing from > Piantelli comes close to having the credibility of this Hi-Tech company. > I am unfamiliar with this experiment. But I don't think a lack of transmutations in Thermacore's trial says all that much about what is possible with an Ni-H system. Assuming they had anomalous heat, an obvious precondition for admitting their results as evidence in this discussion, we still have the following possibilities: 1. Pd-D sometimes yields transmutations and sometimes doesn't, and Ni-H sometimes shows transmutations and sometimes does't. 2. Pd-D always yields transmutations and Ni-H never yields transmutations. 3. Pd-D sometimes yields transmutations and Ni-H never yields transmutations. 4. Thermacore performed an inadequate analysis. Overlaid on top of these possibilities is the question of the basic mechanism. Assuming (2), for the sake of argument (something I would not do in a different context), does that indicate that what is going on under the hood is a fundamentally different process? A sort of Pd-D-LENR and an Ni-H-LENR? Perhaps you're simply saying that there might be some common mechanism, but whatever is going on is resulting in different behavior because of the different makeup of the hydrogen and substrate. In an abstract sense I think this is possible. But about the Thermacore results, I don't think this is enough information to draw the conclusion that you seem to want to draw, which is that a prima facie case has been made that there are no transmutations in the Ni-H system. To the contrary, I think such a case has been made and that we must look more closely at the Thermacore results. Eric
