Indeed, small traces of transmutations (e.g. Pd—>Ag, Ti—>Vd and Ni—>Cu) may be explained by neutron production in light element fusion reactions. Afterall Fleischmann thought that he saw some neutrons, although there were no where near enough of them to be statistically significant or what is expected from hot fusion reactions. Just an idea.
Therefore it would be important to look for helium and tritium also from Ni-H cells. Where Celani's cell is perhaps the most advanced. Celani should send his cell for someone who has mass spectrosopy available. I would say that even Curious could find the Helium from Celani's cell. This test could be done as early as 2016, when there is a launch window open to Mars. It would cost perhaps 20 billion (distributed for ten year span) but it is still cheap compared to the scientific value of such experiment. Just another wild idea. —Jouni On Aug 20, 2012 6:19 AM, "Abd ul-Rahman Lomax" <a...@lomaxdesign.com> wrote: > At 07:43 PM 8/18/2012, Eric Walker wrote: > >> I am not in a position to assert an opinion here, but the impression I >> get is that the evidence for transmutations to stable isotopes is solid; >> see Ed Storms's book for a good discussion. An important difficulty, >> however, is that the amounts detected cannot explain the levels of excess >> power observed. (For those wondering whether a shift to unstable isotopes >> is also possible under certain circumstances, I'm not sure, although I have >> only seen this reported in two instances by two related groups.) >> > > This is commonly said, and it's important to understand the full context. > Yes, with transmutations, other than to helium, the amounts detected, so > far, cannot explain the levels of excess power seen. Helium does that. The > transmutations are found at a much lower rate than would be necessary to > explain the observed power, without the helium production. > > Transmutations can sometimes be observed at very low rates of formation. > Complicating this, the analytical methods used can detect extraordinarily > small quantities of some isotopes, and ruling out contamination can be > difficult. Nevertheless, it can be done. The steps necessary are not always > taken. > > One remarkable thing I've found. There is often little attempt to > correlate transmutations with excess heat. If the transmutations are from a > side reaction or secondary reaction, we'd expect correlation, at least a > loose one. What we normally see are results from a *single experiment*, not > results correlated across many experiments. That correlation would normally > be done by showing the range of heat/isotope. Or helium/isotope. > > As well, it's entirely possible that transmutations are related to the H/D > ratio, at least in FPHE experiments. > > >
