Analysis by germanium gamma detectors revealed presence of 100 billion atoms of Ag, Pd, Rh, and (one) Ru isotopes having ratios unlike those from bombardment by high-energy deuteron or proton beams.
http://www.lenr-forum.com/showthread.php?1124-EPRI-Skeptic-Finds-Heavy-Element-Transmutation-Cold-Fusion-Experiment!-Hidden-3-years . Science should be done on the basis of experimental results. On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/CirilloDtransmutat.pdf > > > Transmutation of metal at low energy in a confined plasma in water > * > > Conclusions > * > > The plasma is able to initiate transmutation reactions. Future studies are > underway to understand the mechanism of these reactions. We propose that > these reactions are the main source of measured excess energy. > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Eric Walker <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Twelve days ago I wrote: >> >> Presumably the experiment ran for a while, but nonetheless one gets the >>> impression that the tritium is more than simply the result of some side >>> reaction, and it looks like the main daughter in this case. >>> >> >> This was in connection with a slide presented by Michael McKubre at the >> meeting in Brussels convened to take a look at work on the Fleischmann and >> Pons effect. The slide summarized a replication by SRI of an experiment by >> Arata and Zhang using a unique "DS" cathode, where a palladium outer shell >> was filled with palladium black and then the whole thing electrolyzed in >> LiOD and LiOH. I thought the slide was very interesting because it >> indicated that SRI had measured 10^15 atoms of tritium, and I wondered >> whether it was the main daughter in that reaction. >> >> I have since read more about that replication in an appendix to a review >> paper that was prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy review in 2004. >> It seems the 10^15 atoms of tritium were generated over a period of 86 >> days. The amount was very significant -- the original amount was about >> 0.05 percent of the final amount. But the final amount was not at a level >> to produce the excess heat SRI saw, and it was not even at a level to be >> measured in their calorimeter. In that replication, they did not find the >> daughter product that was causing the heat; they found no 4He, and the 3He >> was at levels and in a spatial distribution consistent with tritium decay. >> So the source of the excess heat in that replication was unaccounted for. >> >> The appendix to the DoE paper mentions three possible sources of the >> excess heat, and the last one is that the heat was produced by 4He >> formation at the surface of the cathode, rather than within it, and, as a >> consequence, the 4He vented into the atmosphere. This possibility is an >> interesting one, because it is consistent with the hypothesis that the >> tritium was also produced at the cathode surface and then migrated (as >> hydrogen can be expected to) into the cathode under the voltage that was >> applied during the electrolysis. In this scenario, one source of the >> tritium would be from 6Li(d,t)5Li reactions from prompt d's shooting into >> the electrolyte. (Ed has mentioned another possibility -- a d+e+p >> reaction.) >> >> Eric >> >> >
