Rossi fixed the gamma ray problem when he added the secondary heater to preheat the E-Cat reactor before the initiation of the LERN reaction. This cured the gamma ray problem is subsequent versions of the E-Cat. The new Rossi systems do not produce gamma rays.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:26 PM, David ledin <[email protected] > wrote: > Jones Beene > > Why you insist that e-cat don't emit gamma ray while both rossi and > focardi claimed otherwise. > > Here is a quote from Sergio Focardi talk in TEDx conference . > > "08:43 Now, one of the problems when we talk about these topics is the > problem of safety. And, in this case the danger for the safety is the > radioactivity, because being a nuclear reaction people foresee > radioactivity emitted in the reaction. This is real, but we are lucky > this process produce only gamma rays and not neutrons. I must say I > pointed to the danger of neutrons from the start with the > collaboration with Rossi; and Rossi, obviously, took the measures > needed because, if there would be neutrons, the things would be > difficult, because neutrons can be shielded but it is not a simple > problem. Luckily there are not neutrons. But there are gamma rays. The > presence of gamma ray I have experienced directly, in the first > experiments in the laboratory Rossi had in Bondeno, because often I > did the measures when Rossi was occupied doing his bidding. I, in the > first measures used an instrument detecting radioactivity and measured > the gamma rays. Not very dangerous, not big compared to the normal > background, but anyway present. And it is obvious there was no reason > to raise the natural radioactivity level." > > "10:40 But we never detected neutrons as this was my main fear because > neutron are difficult to shield. But hey never showed. The problem of > the gamma rays was solved simply adding, around the generators, small > sheet of lead that are able to shield the gamma ray. So we can say, > there is no risk of radioactivity when we work in this way. This is > good not only for us but for when there will be commercial > applications." > > full video and transcription > > http://www.e-catworld.com/2011/11/sergio-focardi-presents-ted-talk-on-nickelhydrogen-reaction-video-in-italian/ > > On 7/18/13, Giovanni Santostasi <[email protected]> wrote: > > No, neutrino was proposed to explain missing momentum in nuclear > reactions. > > Alto it has a role in balancing nuclear reactions by balancing lepton > > charge. > > The solar neutrino problem came later and it was not invented to solve a > > problem but it actually seemed to indicate a conflict between understood > > nuclear reactions that were supposed to happen inside the sun and actual > > detected. neutrino at earth. > > The problem was solved by observing that the neutrino oscillates between > 3 > > different types. > > Giovanni > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> There are half a dozen new papers out this summer on various physical > >> aspects of the neutrino - the elusive "ghost particle" of physics which > >> was > >> once an abstraction (lest we forget). The neutrino was invented with no > >> evidence in order to "balance the books" of energetic stellar reactions. > >> Nowadays, almost everyone (except Don Hotson) agrees that the neutrino > >> has > >> mass detectable on earth (formerly it was thought to be massless). More > >> on > >> integrating Hotson's view (and the zero point field) with neutrinos - > >> later. > >> > >> This effective level of neutrino mass has strong implications for dark > >> matter, due to the incredible neutrino flux... as well as implications > >> for > >> anomalous earthly energy. BTW the solar neutrino flux is estimated at a > >> minimum of ~ 3.5 billion/cm^2/sec up to 200 billion/cm^2/sec. Even the > >> low > >> estimate is mind boggling in terms of how much energy is available on > the > >> capture and conversion of a tiny percentage, and we do know that some > >> elements capture a few (very few). > >> > >> Best I can tell, the consensus for neutrino mass in 2013 is about half > >> the > >> value which was being floated around in 2010, which was an upper limit > or > >> .28 eV/c^2. This is complicated by the fact that various neutrinos have > >> differing masses but can "flip" - which itself seems to violate CoE. > >> > >> Anyway, the most interesting factoid about the value of neutrino mass > for > >> LENR, and especially in the context of the Rossi HotCat are the > >> "coincidences". The HotCat is the first devices which seems to work in a > >> very robust manner at a peak photon resonance in the infrared range ... > >> and > >> around a wavelength of slightly over 10 microns. This wavelength just so > >> happens ... drum roll ... ta da... > >> > >> ... to "coincidentally" be in a range where plasmon/polaritons are known > >> to > >> form, which happens "coincidentally" to be the value of the blackbody > >> emission spectrum of planet earth, which happens "coincidentally" to be > a > >> range of mass-energy corresponding to ... you guessed it ... the solar > >> neutrino. All of these details are connected at ~10 microns wavelength, > >> hot-but-not-too-hot. > >> > >> Maybe it is too soon to connect the dots? (quantum dots indeed) > >> > >> It is worth mentioning the implications of one possibility - that the > >> plasmon/polariton operates as an effective "antenna" for capturing a > >> small > >> fraction of the massive solar neutrino flux- since this would help to > >> answer > >> the major question of how Rossi can achieve so much thermal gain with > >> zero > >> gamma radiation. Even if true, this antenna-like function is not enough, > >> since any IR emitter should show gain at 10 microns, and we know that is > >> not > >> the case. > >> > >> So if it is not thermal gain which is captured by plasmons/polaritons, > >> then > >> what is it? > >> > >> More on that later, but if you guessed that polaritons interact with > >> neutrinos in something akin to [mass <-> charge] interaction, then go to > >> the > >> head of the class. That would be where the polariton gets it huge > >> electric > >> field. > >> > >> Jones > >> > > > >
