On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:11 AM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote:
and we simply do not observe such products in anywhere near the > quantity required by the observed excess heat. > I do not dispute this, but I think we've inadvertently allowed it to become something of a trope. I suspect we need to get more specific about what it is that we expect to be in proportion to observed heat that we're not seeing. It's clear that there are insufficient neutrons to explain observed heat excursions in the normal hot fusion way. But I have the following questions, which I wonder whether we've glossed over because they don't match our pet theory of what is going on: - When there is excess heat, there are insufficient fast particles for them to be the source of the heat. - When there is excess heat, there are insufficient transmutations for them to be the source of the heat. - When there is excess heat, there are insufficient x-rays for them to be correlated with the source of the heat. - When there is excess heat, the neutrons are barely above background (actually I think they're sometimes higher; perhaps twice background or more in some cases). I should clarify that I don't think you're claiming any of this one way or the other. My point is a tangential one. Part of the challenge as far as I can tell is that there few to no systematic studies of these observables during successful periods of excess heat. So far they seem to have been measured on their own, apart from an attempted correlation with excess heat. This would not necessarily be an easy thing to do, since electrolysis cells and pressurized chambers are closed environments. Eric
