These conversations are getting all mixed up. Let me start a new thread for this one.
Edmund Storms <stor...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: In addition, the formation and destruction process must remain in balance > because otherwise the process will stop once all the NAE are destroyed. > It they do not stay in balance, the reaction will fluctuate, getting stronger and weaker, finally petering out. Right? Cold fusion reactions often do that. > Presumably the NAE is not made in exactly the same place in the same > material where it previously had been destroyed. > Perhaps it is, the way tungsten is redeposited in some incandescent lights. > If what you say is true, the CF process will not be useful because it > will not last very long. > Perhaps it will not last very long, and it will not be useful. Rossi ran a reactor for a year, but there is no telling how much powder it had in it, or how much longer it might have run. We hope it will run indefinitely. But there is no proof of that yet as far as I know. - Jed
