In reply to David Roberson's message of Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:58:53 -0500 (EST): Hi, [snip] >I was thinking about the penetration dept of alphas and I am pleased that you >looked into that. Perhaps it is time to do further checking into whether or >not they are associated with the hot spots. > > >Robin, do you have time to make a quick calculation of the density of the >nuclear reactions taking place within one of the craters? You could start >with your 10,000 reactions and compare that to the volume and thus number of >atoms of Pd to see how common the active sites are as compared to the general >metal matrix. We might be able to take this number and effectively see how >much energy would be available per atom for a trigger if spread evenly, >although you may have already performed this calculation with the melting >figure. I am attempting to see if the trigger would be too weak unless it >comes in a small package which would tend to support the alpha or proton type >of particle. > > >The cone shape does strongly suggest that a particle type of ignition is >occurring which propagates along the main momentum direction. I find it >interesting that there also appears to be a coordination among the trigger and >the responding sites so that the effect proceeds in a well defined direction >again somewhat like a laser.
...it may not necessarily be nuclear. A Hydrino amplification reaction would produce about 6 times more energy than it consumes, with each reaction yielding from 100's to 1000's of eV. Such a reaction would tend to propagate in a line, due to conservation of momentum. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
