On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote:
> The nuclear reaction reflected in this ash description seems to be a mix > of complex fusion and fission nuclear reactions. Such a mix of reactions > might be expected when the coulomb barrier is lowered in varying degrees > that range from slight to total. This lowering seems to happen in a random > way in terms of intensity. It also points to the likelihood these various > nuclear reactions occur respectively many time to both virgin and > repeatedly transmuted elements and are not restricted to just nickel (Ni58, > Ni60, Ni62and Ni64 stable isotopes). Isotopic shifts in the transmutation > products are also documented. > Agreed. Ni/H has been confirmed, in a sense, unless we are to quibble over the meaning of the word, in which case we must ask what it means for the Pd/D experiments to be confirmed where the Ni/H experiments are not. See sec. 4.5 of Ed Storms's book. Although there are fewer experiments reporting on Ni/H, there are enough to be able to adopt some working assumptions about the existence of the Ni/H reaction. As a side note, I notice that Storms concludes in this section that there must be something like capture of p or D or more complex species within nuclei that make up the different substrates (Pd, Ni, W, Ti, etc.) and in impurities that form in the substrates. There are several significant details that support this conclusion. They include a lack of radioisotopes that would be expected to linger around after the reaction shuts off if there were neutron capture going on, the shift in stable isotopes and the unexpectedly low correlation of neutrons with anomalous heat. Although catalyzed capture of D and p sounds like a crazy idea, on the basis of the reasonable objection that there is Coulomb repulsion to be dealt with, I suspect that Defkalion and Andrea Rossi will be vindicated in the end. I am not a betting man, but perhaps some of you would like to start up a pool? The helium seen in Pd/D systems seems compatible with catalyzed D or p capture, if there is some kind of subsequent alpha decay occurring within a palladium substrate; it is possible that this is not energetically favorable in Ni/H systems, though, in which case you would not expect to see 4He as an ash in Ni/H. It is common in the experiments to see reports of fast protons and alpha particles in the palladium experiments. Eric
