Eric, ALL nuclear reactions generate heat. Alpha emission is a nuclear
reaction. Therefore, heat was generated. However, the rate of the
reaction was too small to make detectable heat from this reaction. The
only unknown is whether heat from a different reaction can occur.
We know that when large amounts of heat are detected, alpha emission
at a comparable rate does not occur. Clearly, large heat production
and alpha emission are not related. Therefore, some other nuclear
reaction is the source of the heat. The question is: What is this
source?
When a large amount of heat are produced, helium is detected. This
helium does not come from alpha emission, as the above logic
demonstrates. Therefore, it must result from a different nuclear
reaction. The question is: What is this reaction? That is the question
my and other theories are trying to answer. If you want to answer the
question of where the alpha comes from, you need to start a different
discussion because this emission is clearly not related to CF.
And NO, helium can not be produced by a reaction that sometimes makes
alpha and sometimes releases He without kinetic energy. Such a
reaction is too improbable to be seriously considered.
Ed Storms
On May 6, 2013, at 10:45 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
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 do not think they did calorimetry in most of these experiments. We
do not know whether there was heat.
- Jed
