Moving from the vac tube end of the spectrum to larger sizes, there is scope for closer examination of heavy duty industrial processes. Welding R&D literature could be a rich hunting ground for baffled asides citing annoying post-welding impurities.
On the other hand, an ab initio fresh start on welding might commence with experimentation using hyper-pure raw materials of species having a single stable isotope, such as aluminium (http://www.webelements.com/aluminium/isotopes.html for example), with painstaking spectrographic analysis of good provenance before and after welding. It would be interesting to see what could arise as 'impurities' after welding with the huge range of different welding processes and, indeed, with variations on welding input parameters, both within and outside those conducive to production of a technologically sound weld. Even further along this spectrum we get into seriously heavy duty stuff such as electric-arc steel making, an introduction to which (probably long-term stable!) is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_arc_furnace My first viewing of the movie "Alien", many years ago, brought the seemingly organic twitching and writhing of the power supply cables on such furnaces to mind, particularly during the process of melting down a fresh batch of cold steel scrap. But transmutation in the electric steel foundry never crossed my mind as a summer student first seeing this in 1957. Fortunately, I suppose, or I would have had a short and unhappy career. As for what actually goes on in weld pools and such like, the jury may not even be selected yet. I believe several other 20th Century theoretical works that don't seem to have been cited in CF/LENR literature have an essential part in providing a scale-invariant matter-wave basis for understanding the outcomes of condensed state interparticle encounters. If this is of interest I will provide such, and I'm happy to participate in any theorising, particularly if half-baked contributions are acceptable. -----Original Message----- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 16 September 2012 02:39 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:New Wired UK article At 06:41 PM 9/15/2012, David Roberson wrote: >I would be surprised if no one has done extensive research into these >transmutations. By now, they must have some idea as to how this >happens or they lack curiosity. If this has been swept under the table >over the years it makes one wonder how many other important discoveries >are hidden. I couldn't find any reference in a quick search to accumulated transmutations in a triode. However, it's not surprising if there are such. Nuclear fusion takes place at fairly low energies, merely with a very low rate. If there are years to accumulate the product, one might find all kinds of things. Yes, it could be interesting, but "how this happens" wouldn't be a big deal, necessarily. Nothing here to "sweep under the table," unless the rate of transmutation is substantially different from what would be expected from theory. Anyone got a reference to an actual report of transmuted elements from vacuum tubes?
