For the various Spin Doctors on Vortex - Here is a magnon-ymous tribute to John Bockris, who passed away last summer. Bockris authored over 700 papers and 24 books. This blip is courtesy of Brian Ahern who has been developing a nanomagnetism hypothesis for non-nuclear gain in LENR which involves magnons, spin coupling and Curie point recycling.
It does not necessarily replace fusion, but may be another (one of many) sources of thermal gain. In fact there is the possibility that given the strangeness of QM - the way that one gets to a reactionless version of helium fusion is to already have given up the 24 MeV with spin coupling !!! This finding below should be a strong indication that even Pd-D has a robust spin coupling mechanism, which is unrelated to fusion - but which is definitely thermally gainful and could precede fusion. I mean to say "probably unrelated to fusion" since in the following - there was NO ENERGY applied, simply a magnetic field. Most proponents of Pd-D realize that helium cannot arise without some energy input, but the point is that even here, there could be another distinct route to thermal gain. >From Bockris and Sundaresan 1994 2.3. Magnetic Stimulation After the cathode had been charged with deuterium for 48 hours at a current of 80 mA, the cell was placed in the field of a permanent magnet of 200 Gauss strength. The cell electrolyte temperature rose to 5 ° C (Fig.10.) after 230 seconds, After 576 seconds, the magnet was replaced by two, one inch Neodymium magnets with a 800 Gauss field placed as described earlier. The temperature immediately started increasing and reached 13.5 ° C in about 15 minutes and remained constant. The temperature returned to 3.5 ° C when the magnet was removed.
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