I also recall the first radio receiver I played with. My enjoyment came from attaching the input lead to different parts of my bicycle handlebar to obtain the loudest signal into a simple set of headphones.
I hope you were not referring to my search for system answers as being without purpose. Perhaps you attached your story to my hypothesis just for convenience. :-) At any rate, there are still many unanswered characteristics associated with LENR+ that need to be understood. I can not pass judgement upon the Nanoplasmonic explanations of how an individual NAE operate and my hypothesis does not concern itself with this issue at all. I am curious as to why LENR was not seen by earlier scientists and even now somewhat difficult to make happen unless good fortune smiles upon the experimenter. Most of the theories that I have seen concentrate upon the individual reactions and one is left with the question as to why this did not occur in the past and be observed. What could be a better explanation than one which ties a system wide parameter with the individual case? I would assume that many times in past experiments hydrogen found itself in close association to nickel or other active metals. The hydrogen purifiers seem like an ideal case in point. Why did LENR not reveal itself if it is easy to get plenty of power just by raising the temperature? We know now that radiation components are rare so they would not reveal the hidden energy source. The other simple way to assume masking is for the actual level of energy released to be tiny, even in the best of circumstances without that extra puzzle part. That is what I am seeking. And, hot spots are one of the main observations. This would naturally fall out if positive feedback comes into play to couple the individual NAE into a larger active region. The energy would be released in large bursts instead of many individual tiny quanta. How much actual evidence exists to support the idea that the energy is released by individual tiny reactions that are independent from other sites? If temperature increases the net output then it only makes sense that mechanical or phonon presence would enhance the reaction rates. After all, these factors can be considered localize temperature fluctuations. Many of these motions would be quite large when compared to the minor random kinetic modifications associated with normal temperature increases. Follow the evidence. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Axil Axil <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Aug 22, 2013 8:10 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:LENR N.A.E new non-episode The state of LENR Pd/D technology is reminiscent of the state of radio back at the turn of the 20th century. At that time, a crystal radio receiver, also called a crystal set or cat's whisker receiver, was a very simple radio receiver, popular in the early days of radio. It needs no battery or power source and runs on the power received from radio waves by a long wire antenna. It gets its name from its most important component, known as a crystal detector, originally made with a piece of crystalline mineral such as galena. This component is now called a diode. As a youngster, I can remember spending many frustrating hours moving the cat’s whisker to and fro endlessly across the face of the crystal hoping to get some sound from the air. It was so long ago, I do not remember if I ever succeeded. The pain of the search has clung to my soul as a original sin of stubbornness. I just remember endless frustration of constant trial and error inspired and confident that some other amazing people had gotten that dammed thing to work. If they did it, by golly I was going to do it too no matter how long it took or what the price paid in suffering. That is how LENR is. This is no science behind it, It is all trial and error. Now LENR+. is analogous to the first vacuum tube radios. There is a degree of science nad methodology behind it and LENR+ works well almost every time. If you study Nanoplasmonics, you will find parameters that can be adjusted to increase the power output and controllability of the reaction, There is solid science behind the LENR+ technology developed since 1974 when Martin Fleischmann himself founded Nanoplasmonics. Some people like to spend their lives endlessly dragging that cat’s whisker across the face of the crystal to find that magic spot…just one…if they can get it to work just once it will all be worth it. They must enjoy the large amount of pain in their stubborn search in the hope that someday they will hear some those small squeaks out of the headphones. Others take the more practical road…and easier road and use science to receive that long sought after signal that contains the exalted music that will lift mankind to the nine choirs of the heavily chorus: the Seraphim and the Cherubim…and all the lower orders… Those unfortunate others need the purification of the pain of the search to atone for their sins of stubborn intransience. On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:22 PM, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: Peter, I applaud your search for the truth. We all would like to see this field advance as quickly as possible since it will make an enormous difference in the lives of so many. I am carefully reading your latest blog post and the comments. Keep asking the right questions and eventually the correct answers will emerge. Currently I am working upon a hypothesis that I more or less stated in my last post to vortex. In this hypothesis I am seeking evidence that only the coordinated efforts of many individual NAE leads to measurable quantities of excess heat. The process for which I seek evidence would demonstrate itself if the excess energy is released in localize hot spots which are formed when individual triggers(random NAE events), that occur with a low probability and strong function of temperature, couple to nearby NAE and cause them to burn. The coupling might be accomplished by mechanical shock waves released by the recoiling nuclear ash or just highly localized energy releases. The instantaneous large temperature excursions within the active region would theoretically increase the probability of other NAE sites there reacting in approximate synchronization. This process would be a form of positive feedback. The net effect is that relatively minor triggers caused by improbable reactions of NAE lead to an overall release of energy many times that due to the raw NAE alone. Any attempt to measure excess heat generated by a material that does not exhibit this feedback would show an energy release that is far too small to accurately measure in most instances. This lack of measurable heat would theoretically be true even when the material is subject to temperatures of the metal melting point. In effect, I am proposing that the random reaction rates of LENR materials in the temperature range of interest is many orders of magnitude greater than expected by earlier physicists estimates. This is most likely a result of interactions within the metal environment which are not well understood when compared to plasma systems. Even though the new hypothetical single NAE reaction rates are much greater than normal, I suspect that they are still too small to measure with precision equipment. And, the fact that no radiation seems to exit LENR systems further masks the observations. A successful LENR device according to my hypothesis is one that can harbor an adequate density of coupled NAE available to be triggered. It should also exhibit the ability to recover the depleted fuel material quickly enough to produce an adequate amount of power. I also expect that the diffusion of heat(or phonons) from an active region will tend to limit the time that the coupling between NAE is effective. The probability of additional reactions as a function of temperature would strongly depend upon the thermal diffusion rate. This interaction would be complex, but hopefully can be engineered to meet system requirements. Obtaining metal particles of the ideal size would potentially be an excellent way to control the reaction. Enough NAE can be formed within these to enhance the positive feedback required to generate the heat. A further advantage of these rough spheres might be that they should exhibit sonic resonances of relatively high "Q". Both of these factors would contribute to the positive feedback gain which would translate into useful amounts of thermal power. A system of this nature would be expected to exhibit a threshold effect. Even though the local single NAE would increase in reaction rate as the temperature increases, the amount of power being generated would be extremely tiny until and unless positive feedback is exhibited. Only then would adequate heat be released to be useful and detected. The design goal is to achieve adequate NAE density within many active regions, develop a controlled method of coupling between these NAE, and to generate a structure that captures the heat or phonon energy for a long enough time to allow them to react. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Peter Gluck <[email protected]> Dear Friends, LENR NAEology is controversial science but a very necessary emergent technology. Therefore I have published the third paper in the NAE series: http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2013/08/continuing-to-crack-crack-is-nae-theory.html My partner and opponent in this discussion is colleague Abd. Peter -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
