Eric,
Since a typical lightning strike is a gigavolt in potential … with 10 to 20 kilo-amps of current what is the reason to invoke LENR to explain neutrons? These input parameters are more energetic than a tokomak. In fact, this abstract indicates that fast neutrons are detected over 10 MeV. That finding almost certainly eliminates LENR as the source, since the fastest neutrons ever documented in cold fusion are under 3.5 MeV, which is the expected spectrum for deuterium fusion. Jones From: Eric Walker It's pretty cool that these authors have gotten a LENR-ish paper into Physical Review Letters in 2013. I suspect this paper should be understood to be in the line of LENR papers, proper, rather than that of an outside group looking at something akin to LENR. At least two of the authors, for example, appear to be mentioned in connection with ICCF-15 [1]: A.S. Roussetski, M.N. Negodaev, A.G. Lipson - Multifunctional Ion Beam Installation “HELIS” as a New Instrument for Advanced LENR Research The initials for Negedoaev differ slightly between the above reference and the author of the Physical Review Letters paper, and "Roussetski" is spelled "Rusetskiy," but I suspect in the first case there is a typo somewhere and in the second case it is a difference of transliteration from the Russian. Roussetski has been involved in cold fusion research for many years. Eric
