I am less optimistic that neutron production is only occurring under special circumstances and not all the time - would seem to me to require more good luck than is likely (what was McKubre's line about conservation of miracles?)
I believe low energy neutrons are relatively hard to detect - requiring specialist equipment that may not yet have been applied to the new generation of high output Ni-P LENR. Fingers crossed it doesn't turn out to be a big problem. On 22 September 2012 16:23, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > It's possible that Rossie is seeing more neutrons than he has let on, even > in his smaller devices running at low COP. Weighing against this is the > fact that many of the LENR researchers have also seen neutrons, but only at > very low levels -- Ed Storms provides a single, short paragraph in chapter > 7 of his book on what is detected that says that neutrons not seen at any > significant level, and the book includes references to Celani, who has > looked at Ni/H. > > My hunch is that neutrons are arising in relatively uncommon side branches > in most cases. If this is right, I also suspect that these branches can be > reached more frequently if the system is driven harder or if the > experimental conditions are adjusted in the right way. > > Eric > > > > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Robert Lynn < > [email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.e-catworld.com/2012/09/rossi-on-the-safety-of-cop-6/ >> >> Admittedly this is from Mr Unreliable, so caveat emptor, but if there are >> neutrons being released under some conditions why not all the time? >> >> Neutrons would be really bad news for LENR. Very penetrating and hard to >> shield - and produce long term accumulation of radioisotopes in surrounding >> environment. Just the kind of thing that regulators would jump on to >> restrict applications. >> > >
