Hi John,
Your level of intelligent skepticism towards LENR is not atypical, but IMO it is unwise to try to wedge this niche into prior tenets of nuclear physics, where admittedly it does not fit well. If LENR is real, as many experiments indicate, it is because there are new types of nuclear reactions - which were unknown prior to 1989 and are still un-taught in University. OK - then you may ask why not new thermal cycles? And one would have to agree that in principle, both require a paradigm shift. But in contrast to the large amount of positive lab results in LENR - there is comparatively little in TEC although much more money has been spent in pursuit of it. Experiment rules ! That is our motto. If Remi has replicated experiments to show now - please post them and we can discuss with an open mind. After all, no field would benefit more from TEC than LENR. That is why there is so much cross-connection and mutual interest between the two. From: John Franks Jones, I don't know, this guy is at a really good university and its been signed off by some top academics. He seems to be in the middle of his work and the theory is well based on experimental fact and he has a rationale. LENR has been going on for years and I and others just can't see how you can bring nucleons within 10s of fermi of each other to fuse, lattice or no lattice. The link with BEC or Cooper paring is just plain wrong, they never come that close and it is a low temperature effect. I don't see a mechanism and claims of excess energy require extraordinary evidence, which no one is buying. Hasn't it been up to DoE review twice now and they still don't believe it? It seems delusional to me, deeply flawed from the start. The only device is the Farnsworth Fusor which is based in experimental and theoretical fact. Good luck anyhow. I will try to contact Remi to find out what the situation is. He has three other websites and other projects: http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/rocornwall/ http://www.cornwallresearch.org/index.htm http://arxiv.org/a/cornwall_r_1#! The last one is very conservative and blacklists a lot of new physics. That seems to be the problem with getting new ideas past the establishment. I think this guy has the right idea in taking them head on by doing a PhD. The establishment is more hindrance than help and explains why this stuff takes so long, the trouble is, governments and investors are enthralled to the universities. The options for energy production don't look good - "renewables", fracking or nuclear. The public aren't convinced and there could be a sea-change in thinking. John. On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: For many years Remi was posting his thermoelectric ideas here, and he is a clever guy. I hope that he has now discovered a new thermal cycle, but to be honest - I have much more faith in LENR than in new thermal cycles. But there is overlap !
