On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:39 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In reply to James Bowery's message of Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:56:35 -0500: > Hi, > [snip] > >> I don't think even Jones suggested D => H + n. > > >His words: "Neutrons are 'stripped' from the deuterium" > > ...and so they are, but only when either the neutron or the proton is > immediately absorbed by another nucleus. I doubt he intended to imply that > the > result of said reaction would be both a free neutron and a free proton. > IOW at > least one of the two needs to be absorbed by a target nucleus for this > reaction > to occur. You can borrow 2.2 MeV from the Heisenberg bank, but you only > get a > *very* short term loan. ;) > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > > How could such a short-lived neutron could get to the engine block?
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jones Beene <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:48 PM Subject: RE: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:chlorine - hydrogen ion explosion To: [email protected] No – I am saying that if he did use D for the gain, the engine would become strongly radioactive in a short time from neutron activation of the engine block and pistons.
