In reply to Edmund Storms's message of Sun, 23 Jun 2013 16:51:45 -0600: Hi, [snip] > >On Jun 23, 2013, at 4:37 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> In reply to Edmund Storms's message of Sun, 23 Jun 2013 07:03:00 >> -0600: >> Hi, >>> The sequence you suggest is not observed!! Therefore, we must agree, >>> transmutation CAN NOT be the source of heat from an e-Cat. >> >> It is not logical to state that because the results of a particular >> transmutation theory are not in evidence, then all transmutation >> must be ruled >> out. > >Yes, all transmutation as a source of energy can be ruled out. The >targets cannot move. They cannot seek out the NAE. Either the NAE is >located in a particle, in which case the reaction can exhaust all the >target in that small particle or the particle is dead and no >transmutation can occur in that particle. The target cannot move to >where the NAE might be located. This severely limits how much energy >can come from this source, which is less than is reported. Hydrogen >as a source of energy does not have this problem because, as a gas, it >can seek out every NAE in each active particle and continue to make >energy as long as the gas is supplied. > >> >> Oh, and BTW, your own theory is also a transmutation theory (in the >> broadest >> sense). ;) > >No, my theory is based on FUSION of hydrogen isotopes. We need to be >clear how we define words because otherwise we will never understand >the process.
I did say "in the broadest sense". The word transmute simply means to change. In that sense, all nuclear reactions where one isotope changes into another, are transmutation reactions. However I grant that in the context of CF it has commonly come to mean an isotopic change of the host lattice. >I believe that transmutation takes place as a minor >consequence of fusion in the same NAE if a target nuclei happens to be >in the wrong place at the wrong time. Otherwise, transmutation does >not occur. IOW transmutation as you define it does occur sometimes, and therefore does contribute some energy. This is a little different to your first statement here-above. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
