On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote:
which is probably a very advisable thing to do: get away from nuclear > fusion. > >From the standpoint of regulators, I think this makes tactical sense. >From the standpoint of what we know about physics, there seem to be these options for what is going on (wild order of magnitude guesstimates in parentheses): 1. something magnetic is going on (0.0000000000000000001 eV??). 2. something previously known and chemical is going on (i.e., < 4 eV). 3. something previously unknown and chemical is going on, such as f/H (~10–30 keV?) 4. something nuclear is going on (0.5–30 MeV). Which class are "HENI" reactions thought to fall within? I would have guessed (4), but perhaps the recent Defkalion demo points to something lower-powered? If HENI reactions fall into (4), what makes them not "nuclear"? Eric
