I found the paper most interesting. It might reveal a valuable tool in detecting LENR activity. I have a question for Ed. Is there some way that you can calibrate the detectors with a known radiation source to obtain similar delayed responses? I am not familiar with the normal behavior of these devices, but it seems strange for those delays to occur at this time unless others have seen them in the past.
If you are witnessing a new phenomena, then something major may come out of this research. Perhaps there is another form of radiation that is only emitted by LENR behavior? I would be very surprised if this is the case, but who knows. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Mon, Oct 22, 2012 3:08 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:New paper by Storms and Scanlan Ed published this description of the paper at CMNS: I'm making a prepublication copy of a new paper available for your information and comment - sort of a universal peer review.(http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEnatureofen.pdf) It has been submitted to JCMNS. Unfortunately it is too big for Google to accept. Consequently, you have to go to LENR.org to download it. the paper is "Nature of energetic radiation emitted from a metal exposed to H2" by Storms and Scanlan. Perhaps other people can be encouraged to use this approach when they submit papers for publication. This is an important paper because it uses radiation measurements to identify when LENR occurs rather than energy production. Because such radiation can only result from a nuclear reaction and its measurement can detect a nuclear reaction at a much lower rate than is possible by measuring energy production, radiation provides an excellent tool for studying the LENR process. Of course, heat is being produced but a much larger sample would be required for its detection. The LENR process was initiated using a method based on the theory that I published recently. This is the first example of using a theory to produce a predicted result using a predicted method. We found that when several materials are subjected to conditions expected and found to produce voids, and then exposed to H2, a source of radiation results that is consistent with the radiation reported by previous workers. In addition, this radiation has strange effects on other materials, which is a new discovery. We are making these results available at an early stage in our studies to alert people to the possible benefit of observing radiation. I expect many questions and objections will result. Nevertheless, people need to be encouraged to duplicate the work to determine if it is correct or not. I'm in the process of determining the exact treatment required to make the effect occur every time. Although I produced 4 samples that work, many did not. I now know the reason. This method is ok as a way to study the effect but it is not useful to scale up to produce a commercial source of energy. However, it gives support to my theory and provides a good method to demonstrate LENR. The nature of the radiation also provides useful insight into the mechanism. Your comments would be welcome.
