On Feb 10, 2013, at 8:20 PM, Kevin O'Malley wrote:
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Edmund Storms
<[email protected]> wrote:
NO!!! That is not the issue Cold fusion produces He4 without
radiation.
***There have been some observances of radiation. Not very much,
but some.
Yes, I know but that is not the point.
Hot fusion produces a mixture of energetic fragments of He.These are
two entirely different processes producing different products. The
name is only used to distinguish between the two different processes.
***I think I see where the difference lies. Let's say we had a
million balloons all filled with air, and around those million
balloons there is a lattice of tinker toys such that each balloon is
boxed in. Now, in the middle of all those balloons, you pop one of
them. Would you be able to hear the explosion? Probably not,
because the emitted energy would be absorbed by the lattice & other
baloons. Similarly, with billions of H atoms trapped in Palladium
lattices, when 2 of them fuse, the emitted energy gets absorbed by
the lattice. That's how we end up with transmutations.
But if you had a million balloons in a big room (with no tinker toy
lattice) and you exploded 50,000 of them at one time, would you hear
the explosion? Yes. The emitted energy would not be fully absorbed
by the surrounding matter, and indeed could even lead to further
explosions & emissions. That's the difference between cold fusion
(tinker toy lattice, only very few fusion events) and hot fusion (no
tinker toy lattice, thousands of fusion events leading up to a large
emission of energy).
I think you can make a better analogy by comparing exploding and
burning. Hot fusion is an explosion of the nucleus as a result of pet
up nuclear energy. Cold fusion is a burning reaction that allows the
energy to leak out slowly even though the same reaction products are
produced. Both can occur in a lattice, but cold fusion REQUIRES the
lattice while hot fusion does not.
Ed
Imposing the conclusions of hot fusion emitted energy onto cold
fusion emitted energy is where your observation loses its validity.
