From: Jojo Jaro
PS: On a different note, what would a p + p fusion reaction look like. I have designed a new reactor with a view sight glass, hopefully, I'll see some fusion reactions taking place. This is where the problem arises. Sadly, you will probably never see it, even if you look until you are as old as I am. This reaction cannot happen above background rates on earth, or outside of extreme acceleration gradients, such as in a mile long beam-line. Even on the sun, it is seldom gainful. It is a two step reaction and the gain does not come from fusion at all - but from the subsequent beta decay of the metastable fused helium (2He) into deuterium. Most of the time, essentially all of the time - the reaction will NOT proceed to deuterium since the initial helium-2 nucleus will revert back to two protons and a slight net loss. Even on the sun, there is only one successful beta decay per every 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 fusion events :-) (or else the sun would have run out of fuel early on) . and there is doubt among experts that there is net gain in this reaction at all, even on the sun, considering the rarity of the beta decay and the elastic scattering. Again - just so we are clear, gain in PP reactions depends completely on the secondary beta decay of the initial helium-2 nucleus, and this is extraordinarily rare. It is QM and not thermonuclear. You will never see it in LENR, unless of course, there is a novel version of it which is precisely the proverbial second or third miracle in LENR (over and above the excess heat and lack of gamma radiation). But if multiple miracles are required, in addition to excess heat - you might as well stick with Gremlins :-) Jones BTW as for transmutation products - these are mundane in many situations. Roy Hammack spent a lifetime documenting transmutation under power lines (always happens) lightning strikes and even in neon light electrodes. The point being that transmutation alone means little more than that an electron arc was present. If you want to show the heat came from the transmutation - that is a far different story, and Piantelli or no one else has come close to a correlation of the heat radiated to the tiny amount of transmutation.
