Bo Höistad quote:
As a nuclear physicist, I can directly say that, based on
the well-known knowledge of core processes, the probability of nuclear
transformations that cause heat production in the E-cat vanishingly small. This is another bit of informed opinion which can be said to be most consistent with a Millsean approach in determining the nature of the excess... well not quite Millsean but based on Rydberg energy gaps in the nickel electron cloud - which could be due to wave-function collapse. In a previous posting, my suggestion was outlined for a version of Mills' redundancy giving the Rydberg value of energy gain of ~300 eV. This turns up in nickel at the 11th ionization potential (27.2 eV * 11). It is almost a perfect match. If it were not such a near-perfect match, it would never have come up. To see if any other researcher had documented this value - I did a google search and wow - Biberian reports that this exact value - which was seen in Japan in a nickel-copper experiment. Here is the relevant quote: "As for the heat balance, the endothermic tendency was observed both in D and H runs below 500 K, above which only H had the exothermic tendency. At 523K, while the deuterium run remained endothermic, the protium run showed the exothermic tendency with a specific output energy reaching about 300 eV/atom-Ni which is anomalously high in view of the known chemical reactions." Y. Miyoshi, H. Sakoh, A. Taniike, A. Kitamura, A. Takahashi, T. Murota an d T. Tahara, Proceedings of the 12th Meeting of Japan CF Research Society, JCF12 December 17-18, 2011 Kobe University, Japan, p. 1 "Gas-phase hydrogen isotope absorption/adsorption characteristics of a Ni-based sample" Turns out it was one of Ahern's samples. This energy range - 300 eV fits the evidence very well - since it is about 200 times more energetic than burning hydrogen in oxygen and it produces no measureable radiation outside the reactor and no transmutation. Jones
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