Ed Storms states: *“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.”*
This could be a false assumption as follows: When a thermalization mechanism that transfers nuclear energy directly to the lattice is in place, alpha particles do not carry enough energy to penetrate the surface of the CR-39. In this situation, the alpha particle drifts out of the nucleus at very low energies rather than being fired off out at high speed. This thermalization mechanism of nuclear energy from LENR directly to the lattice makes deductions about the behavior of alpha particles and their associated behavior and measurement problematic and unreliable. On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Edmund Storms <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
