Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > I am totally perplexed by how many reports of anomalous emission of > neutrons and/or high energy e-m radiation (with both Pd+D2 and > Ni+H2) > can go unnoticed, or disproved by university physics labs. > > Are there credible reports of significant neutrons with protium? Anything > over 1000/sec would be significant. >
No, most reports of gas loaded Ti are more like 57 neutrons per hour, with 40% reproducible. Such as: http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/KenneyFneutronemi.pdf I suspect that kind of result is fractofusion or what-have-you. A million neutrons, on the other hand, sounds like cold fusion to me. But who knows. There were some other more impressive results of cryogenic Ti anomalies from Los Alamos (Menlove), Frascati and from BARC. BARC decided to concentrate on tritium from Ti instead. See: http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Srinivasanobservatio.pdf QUOTE: "A novel feature introduced by Scaramuzzi's group was the adoption of thermal cycling of the deuterated titanium pieces by means of liquid nitrogen cooling followed by warm up phases to create non-equilibrium conditions in the deuterated metal lattice. It was earlier pointed out both by Jones et al. as well as Fleischmann et al. that this helps occurrence of nuclear reactions by causing rapid diffusion and migration of the deuterium ions within the host metal matrix, Both the BYU and Frascati groups have reported the measurement of significant neutron output from deuterated Ti samples. Since then Menlove et al. of Los Alamos in collaboration with Jones have achieved considerable success in carrying out a systematic study of burst neutron emission from deuterated Ti chips, during the warm up phase following cooling to liquid nitrogen temperatures. Their success is attributed not only to the deployment of improved and sophisticated neutron detection equipment but also the use of a larger quantity (up to 300 g) of Ti chips in each experimental bottle." It should not "perplex" Lou Pagnucco that these results have been ignored. There is nothing ominous about it. No conspiracy. It is not unusual for this field. The reason is very simple. There are dozens of interesting, promising experiments in cold fusion that have been ignored, because there is not enough money and not enough people to replicate them. Any researcher in this field can easily rattle off 20 or 30 promising experiments off the top of my head that deserve a closer look. Heck, *I could do that*, in my sleep! If someone handed me $1 billion in funding and a large staff of qualified, eager young researchers, I could allocate the money to worthwhile, interesting experiments in one month. I am not exaggerating. The problem with cold fusion is not that we have run out of ideas, clues, or new approaches. It is just the opposite. The problem is that we have far too many clues, and nowhere near enough people or money to sort them out and find out which is truly promising. - Jed
