Mark LeClair has a fantastic story to tell. It
should be recognized that very little of this
story has been confirmed, yet some of it should
be rather easy to confirm. I haven't listened to
the show, but did review the slides.
What I can tell, clearly, is that LeClair is
theorizing way beyond what he has evidence for. First things first.
He has expertize in cavitation. So it is
reasonable that he might find a way to create
bubble fusion. Bubble fusion is hot fusion.
In slide 39, he presents his work as related to
CF/LENR, but he includes bubble fusion.
Cavitation Fusion in Other LENR Devices
Ultrasonics/Sonofusion:, Stringham, Impulse Devices
Pons-Fleischmann Cells, Taleyarkhan, JET
Cavitating Rotor-Stators: Griggs Hydrosonic
Pump (Hydrodynamics, Inc.), Potopov, Energetics, Inc.
Brillouin? Defkalion? Rossi?
It's well-known and not controversial: CF/LENR
isn't hot fusion. It does not produce neutrons,
except possibly in very small quantities through
rare branches or secondary reactions. Bubble
fusion is hot fusion. Talyarkhan's work involved
a claim of detecting bubble fusion through the emission of neutrons.
Bubble fusion allegedly works through the
generation of very high temperatures. If neutrons
are generated, this is certainly hot fusion, to
distinguish it from cold fusion.
By lumping all those approaches together, LeClair
demonstrates that he doesn't understand cold
fusion at all. He claimed massive radiation
poisoning, which would be from massive neutron
generation. His effect, if he knows how to create
it, and he's claimed more than one massive
radiation event, should be easy to demonstrate,
plus such a massive event would leave lots of
traces. Material that he claimed to be transmuted
was sent to Dr. Storms, who found nothing unusual with it.
LeClair's work, if real, has massive military
implications. They would be all over it, and we
know that cold fusion scientists with extensive
military connections are aware of his claims.
Nobody, other than LeClair and Lebid -- who is
almost completely silent -- has confirmed any of
his story, as to what indicates a massive anomaly.
It's worse than the situation with Rossi et al.
There, at least with Rossi, there have been
public demonstrations. We may argue that the
demonstrations were not conclusive, but at least they happened.
And LeClair claims no new science. Really? ZPE
self-powered flying water crystals, reaching
relativistic velocities? No new physics?
My point is that LeClair doesn't know what he's
doing in his presentations. He's off the edge.
If what he's found is real, if he is not
literally insane, the path he is following is to imitate someone who is crazy.
A small demonstration device, sold with plenty of
caveats, would turn this completely around. It
doesn't have to be commercially ready. A device
for the investigation of the effect. But people
like LeClair and Rossi et al don't do that. That
would be "giving away" the secret. While the
position is understandable, it's also highly
paranoid. Essentially, it defines the world as not-ready-for-change.
Because if "they" have the money and power to
cheat the inventor if the inventor reveals the
secrets, they also have the money and power to penetrate any such secret.
LeClair might seem to have revealed the secret,
but he hasn't. You could not replicate his work
with the information in the slide show. All that
you could do is to try to explore cavitation,
which plenty of people have been doing.
At 11:02 PM 9/20/2012, Axil Axil wrote:
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Mark LeClair presented his thesis and supporting
evidence(see reference above) in a live presentation on 9/20/2012.
This presentation will be available on YouTube shortly.
In slide 39, mark said that the Pons-Fleischmann
effect is just a very weak version of the
LeClair effect. Could the water crystal be the active agent in the PF effect.
If this equivalency is true, could a tradeoff
between the radiation and transmutation of
cavatation in the LeClair effect be made by
using nickel or palladium as the target material
in the cavatation reactor where proton pairs on
the surface of these metals might form and
thermalize the nuclear reactivity of the water crystal(slide 16)?
On Slide 20, LeClair shows how a water crystal
had carved a 5 foot trench in a coil of copper wire.
Cheers: Axil
Slide 20 doesn't show that at all. It does show a
coil of copper wire, more like 5 cm long than 5
feet. It shows a broken copper wire. Which means?
From LeClair's last slide:
Cavitation reentrant jets generating the
LeClair Effect are the key to harnessing fusion
and producing transmuted material on an
industrial scale. NanoSpire leads the field in both results and theory
In isolated, unconfirmed results, no controls,
and no "harnessing" has been shown. There has
been no conclusive demonstration of transmuted
material. EDX results, without controls, are
almost useless, because of how ubiquitous
materials turn out to be when you use these
sophisticated methods of analysis. Anything,
almost literally, is everywhere. The issue is
shifts in quantity, and because a process can
move stuff around, this can be tricky. "Before
and after" aren't adequate, for example.
Electrolysis is famous for concentrating
materials on the surface of the cathode, they can
migrate from impurities anywhere in the cell.
NanoSpires cavitation reactor generated 2900
watts of hot water flow using only 840 watts of
electrical input, a coefficient of performance (COP) of 3.4
Unconfirmed. If LeClair saw this, sure, he's
excited. But he's also way over-interpreting and
perhaps misinterpreting his results. It does not inspire confidence.
The LeClair Effect correctly explains excess
heat and transmutation seen in many LENR devices
without the need for new physics, such as heavy
electrons, plasmons or other proposed particles or reactions
So, ZPE self-acceleration of an alleged new
crystal form of water, to relativistic
velocities, is not "new physics"? LENR is
reported in many contexts where cavitation fusion
makes no sense at all. Gas-loaded nanoparticle
palladium? Not to mention that LENR results, so
far, don't produce neutrons, and only produce
transmutations in very small quantities. LeClair
got very sick, he claims, from radiation
poisoning. If he was producing hot fusion, he
would indeed get very sick, unless serious
precautions were taken. Cold fusion, no. This
claim then shows that LeClair has no idea what
he's talking about. He may have had dramatic
experiences, but he's turning that into his being
the scientific genius of the century. The thinking pattern isn't unfamiliar.
The LeClair Effect produces intense fusion
If it works, yes. Hot fusion, intense. Which is
unmistakeable. And if he can do that with
cavitation, what he's done is amazing, but more
than amazing. It's dangerous as hell, and the
military would be all over this, and since it's
highly likely that the military knows about the
claims, and the military doesn't give a fig about
"established theory," that he is being allowed to
publicize this shows a high likelihood that their
own investigation has shown "nothing here."
If that's incorrect, LeClair could rather easily,
if he has done what he's claimed, refute it. This
has been going on for, what, more than a year?
with many different substrates and most
importantly, even without a substrate under the
right conditions. This means that no
electrochemistry, lattice-based theories
(Widom-Larsen, Brillouin, others), palladium,
nickel or any catalysts are required to produce fusion
That's right. Just get stuff really, really hot,
and you will get fusion. "Substrate" is something
needed in condensed matter, and there is no such
thing as condensed matter at fusion temperatures.
That LeClair might reach fusion temperatures with
cavitation isn't intrinsically impossible. So
that he could create hot fusion isn't intrinsically impossible.
But flying self-accelerated relativistic
velocities for a new crystalline form of water?
At one point I asked what the experimental basis
was for conclusing that. LeClair didn't answer with anything clear.
If LeClair isn't crazy, or maybe even if he is,
how about a small machine that demonstrates the
effect? Yes, dangerous, so sold with plenty of
warnings. Lots of things are dangerous and can be
sold. Or even a large complicated machine, if
that's necessary. He'd set it up, and demonstrate
it to customers, who could observe it all, having
signed an NDA (if some of the technology must be
kept secret, covering the secret). If, using this
machine, which can be a black box, lots of
neutrons are generated, that's valuable all by
itself, such machines are currently quite expensive.
I'm not holding my breath.
