No, Eric, this is not tiresome to us poor unwashed voorts. Except when it occassionaly degenerates into a pissing contest, it is entirely interesting to see ideas (many immediately shot down) spin out. It seems to me that eventually some new useful insight, or synthesis might give either a combatant or cheerleader another idea.
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Edmund Storms <[email protected]>wrote: > > Eric, you need to do some calculations. The CR-39 is an accumulator. The >> flux, which determines power , is very small during these studies even >> though the final result looks large. At no time could heat be detected >> from the reactions producing these products. >> > > This suggests that the CR-39 experiments have in general been done in > connection with null results -- i.e., trials in which there was no reason > to think there was excess heat. This is interesting on several levels, > since there were pits in the chips. But if there was no clear excess heat, > we have little reason to conclude we have learned anything from the > CR-39 experiments about the alpha particle flux when there is excess heat. > > I fear that this thread may be becoming tiresome for the poor Vorts. I > will mull over the information you have provided. > > Eric > >
