On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote:
Guess what – this might present a most interesting scenario in that a small > subcritical reactor, driven by a so-called tabletop accelerator - one with > a > high multiplication ratio, could be shielded on all sides by half a dozen > of > these LENR reactors, designed to be as planar as possible … which also > provide the startup current for the accelerator. > I think there's been a misunderstanding about what is being proposed. It's basically that the nuclear active environment, the region in which fusion (not fission) is taking place, disrupts the gammas. In order to achieve what you're suggesting here, you would need the NAE to be large, which, if the SPAWAR video is anything to go by, it is not. So you could surround your subcritical reactor and the accompanying equipment with a large number of LENR reactors, and nearly everything would still get through. > Closer to Sci-Fi than Sci … but we cannot rule it out … stranger things > have > happened. > If you're suggesting that what is being proposed is more in the realm of sci-fi than science, I have no issue with that. But we should keep an open mind about various possibilities and not rule them out of hand. So far I have seen nothing in what has been suggested in connection with active gamma suppression that is so far-out that an explanation could not eventually be found for it. You have given reasons against it, and they are well-taken. But you have not made a case that is so compelling that the possibility is obviously simply a fanciful one, which is the conclusion you seem to want to draw here. Eric
