Would it be possible to detect that modest energy neutrons were being emitted by just monitoring the local gamma radiation from transmuted materials?
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Robert Lynn <robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Sat, Sep 22, 2012 7:12 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Rossi: Neutrons? 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 <eric.wal...@gmail.com> 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 <robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com> 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.
