On Jun 20, 2013, at 7:35 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Edmund Storms <[email protected]> wrote:
I think we all need to be clear. Heat has been made using normal
hydrogen, but without any indication of helium production.
Has anyone looked for helium production when normal hydrogen
produces heat? I don't recall any reports of that.
People look for what they expect to find. No one expected H to make
heat; with use of H being considered a null. The observed heat was a
surprise, but the amount of heat was too small to make a search for
the source worthwhile until recently. People detected various
transmutation products, starting with conversion of K to Ca, which
focused attention on this type reaction. Piantelli added emphasis to
the idea of transmutation, which has been applied by Rossi and others.
Although several people suggested deuterium might be the actual source
of energy, the reasons supporting this idea were not convincing enough
to encourage a search. The amount of energy being claimed to result
from H2+Ni at the present time would make such a search easy if anyone
wished to test this prediction. I suspect the various people who can
make energy this way are so strongly committed to the idea of
transmutation that they have no interest in exploring this prediction.
Ed
I would not expect helium, but you never know.
Has anyone looked for deuterium? I guess that would be difficult to
separate from the background.
- Jed
