On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Edmund Storms <[email protected]>wrote:
You are really suggesting H+D = He3 fusion. This was suggested in 1989 and > efforts were made to look for the resulting He3 without success. The only > time He3 was detected, it resulted from tritium decay. Nevertheless, > tritium IS detected, which can only result from H+D fusion with an electron > added. The absence of He3 and the presence of tritium led to my model > describing a process that functions the same way no matter which hydron is > present. > Since you mention 1989, I assume you're talking about Pd/D experiments. I would not be surprised at all if there were insignificant levels of 3He in Pd/D experiments, given what we know about the 4He being correlated with excess heat. When I talk about 3He as a byproduct, I have the Ni/H system specifically in mind. Have there been systematic investigations of 3He evolution in connection with Ni/H in recent years? Was there excess heat? Have there been convincing demonstrations of excess heat in Ni/H systems? It seems pretty clear to me at this point that we do not know enough about the Ni/H system to give positive answers to these questions -- it's all still up in the air. That means that we're at the beginning, in a sense, and 3He is just one among many possible byproducts that might be detected, as well as additional D2, as you propose. Eric
