On Jun 12, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Alain Sepeda wrote:
One theoretical question about LENR is whether it is an electron-
capture process, involving the emission of a neutrino, or not.
Today we have neutrino detectors like Kamiokande, or Daya Bay,
working to detect neutrino from sun or nuclear reactors.
My question is what should be the power of the LENR reactor required
to cause a clear signal on those detectors.
If we assume heat in NiH reactors is caused by (endothermic)
electron-capture followed by (exothermic) absorption H+n+n+n (or Ni+n
+n+n...), then some decay with He4...
we could maybe compute roughly the heat produced per electron-
capture, thus per neutrino emitted.
Alain, why make this assumption? Why assume enough energy can be
acquired locally to convert e+p to a neutron? Why start with an
unjustified and unsupported assumption as the basis for a question
that has no reality if the initial assumption is wrong? I suggest you
first asking if e+p is a possible reaction.
Ed
knowing the required neutrino flux, we could estimate (depending on
the distance) the power of the LENR reactor that would be easily
detected ?
did anyone have done that computation.
NB: one trick could be to modulate the power of the reactor so the
correlation is more clear in the noise.
