Jones, This sounds quite plausible. Experiments will decide.
-- LP Jones Beene wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > BTW, an interesting paper illustrating how powerful these fields can get > in nanocircuits is - > > "Optical generation of intense ultrashort magnetic pulses at the > nanoscale" > http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6072 > > The underlying suggestion, which we have heard before in a different > context, being the major part of the Letts/Cravens effect - is that > coherent > electric fields at the nanoscale can produce multi-Tesla level magnetic > fields at the focal point. This paper is using laser light, but there is a > more interesting possibility for LENR which came up several times in > discussions wrt the HotCat. > > The near-coherence (aka superradiance) which is to be expected in the IR > due > to very narrow range emission from silicon carbide could be one of the > secrets of the HotCat. Even though the photons of Terahertz IR carry far > less energy per photon than an optical laser, there are far more of them > with hot SiC, and they do not need to be focused. The energy per photon is > perhaps 100 times lower but the intensity of narrow spectrum radiation is > much larger. This gives Rossi the desirable magnetic field gradient in > surface plasmons without the need of laser coherency or focusing and it > gives a high level of control. > > > > >

