MarkI-ZeroPoint wrote:
> Can you provide some details of the HAD event??? Sorry, but as I said – I can’t talk about it in any detail (unfortunately). All I will say is that it involved a couple of tonnes of hot alloy steel, equivalent forms of which (mass, shape & grade) would normally cool to ambient from over 80 celsius in a few hours, but in this particular case it took more than a couple of days. Some surfaces had been exposed to a mixture of hot gases, under pressure/shock, and so there will have been some absorption (albeit an unknown quantity). I'm afraid I can't give you details of the gases – I don't have them, and even if I did, I wouldn't pass them to anyone. Nor do I have the detailed alloy steel spec. (although likely to contain something like 18%Ni & 8%Co) All the usual candidates sources of exothermic reaction were thought about at the time - eg. Phase changes in the steel, interstitial gas migration and molecular recombination (particularly hydrogen) - but if those mechanisms were responsible, this would have been a fairly common occurance – which it certainly wasn't. Heat rate generation for most of that time must have been of the order of 5kw (in order to compensate for losses of, say, 3.5kw radiative & 1.5kw convective at a bulk temperature of over 80 degrees C). But of course we weren't using any sensitive calorimetry – it wasn't that sort of test ;-) I'm only using this as an anecdotal example – since as far as I can see, LENR (whatever it may be) is not something that will only take place inside a laboratory. Its everyday effects are probably being misattributed to various notional, and mundane, mechanisms all the time – hence it continues to be ignored. - Leo
