Heh. It's 23 years for some of the old timers on this alias (not me). I'm particularly fond of this older transmutation paper: http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Castellanonucleartra.pdf
There are various reasons to criticize the paper (only EDX was used for analysis, other complaints) but I like it because it is simple, direct, limited in scope, and because they describe pretty good technique with respect to controlling contaminants. Other very interesting transmutation results are Iwamura's: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/IwamuraYobservatioa.pdf http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/IwamuraYlowenergyn.pdf http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/IwamuraYobservatioc.pdf etc. I'm unsure what to think about the carbon arc stuff. It takes tremendous procedural care to eliminate contaminants. A complete experiment would involve procuring ultra pure carbon from a chemical supply house, doing an assay of a fraction (control sample) with at least three analytical techniques (e.g. EDX, XRD, mass spec), performing the experiment under near-clean-room conditions using materials that are distinct from anticipated transmutation products, capturing the detritus in similarly distinct materials, and running the same three analytical techniques on the detritus, preferably with the same three instruments. It's a big undertaking. Jeff On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Brad Lowe <[email protected]> wrote: > I have lost track of all of the claims of LENR and transmutations.. Are > there known reproducible LENR experiments that shows real evidence of a > nuclear transmutation? Trying to detect radiation above background, excess > heat, etc. is clearly difficult.. But turning an element in LENR fuel into > new element(s) would demand attention. > > Piantelli shows the nuclear process in his patent as does Rossi.. but any > real evidence? > > After two years of following LENR, do we really have no hard evidence that > fusion or fision is happening? Is it because XRD or Mass Spectrum is too > expensive, or because of impurities in most "fuels"? > > I know George Egely has said he has done XRD on samples before and after > in his "carbon in a microwave plasma" fusion... but no replication, as far > as I know... > > - Brad > > > >
