All: I found an interesting Cold FusionTheory Wiki http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Cold_fusion/Theory
It's a start, at least. On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > > > I did include two variants of BEC- one is associated with Kim and one with > Takahashi. Neither can adequately explain operation at elevated > temperatures. > > > > This is a list that is continually evolving and I will include a 1D > version in the next go-around. > > > > Jones > > > > *From:* Kevin O'Malley > > > > Thanks for posting this, Jones. It reminds me of an earlier post on > Vortex that was a compilation of LENR theories but I cannot find it with > the search engine nor even with google. So I'll need to circle back on > this item to comment on it because I intended to contrast your post to the > earlier post. > > At any rate, I do not find the V1DLLBEC theory up there. Basically it's > my theory that 1D BECs could form at much higher temperatures than expected > and generate fusion events. As far as the 2nd miracle of where those > fusion events are dissipated into the lattice, one would have to pursue my > analogy about balloons within a matrix of tinker toys. When they pop, > would you hear them? When a matrix of a few million balloons is generated, > and a bullet is fired through it, would you be able to hear it? No, > because the output energy would be absorbed into the matrix. > > > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > > Below can be found at least 12 viable and distinct hypotheses for LENR > gain. > Given that some of the listings represent slight variations or enabler > mechanisms there are more than a dozen entries (16). All are related in > some > way to hydrogen which is constrained in a lattice, and many require QM > tunneling. > > The range of these, and the generally strong evidence for each are almost > conclusive evidence for me that LENR cannot be reduced to a "single" > reaction, nor even two - one for deuterium and one for protium. QM > tunneling > is complex. > > But the most controversial suggestion of all is that none of these are > mutually exclusive, and several, or even most of them, could be at work > simultaneously in any given experiment, if that reactor has all the > necessary components. > > There is not even a good candidate for "most likely" unless the reaction > involves only a limited range of options, such as palladium and deuterium > which only produces helium-4 as ash. > > I am now dropping the attribution - since earlier there were numerous > overlooked contributors, like Mitchell Swartz who were not credited but who > are still fighting the USPTO for basic priority. > > 1) The original theory of P&F applicable to palladium and deuterium, > involving gammaless fusion to helium caused by coherent electron effects > (screening) > > 2) Coulomb mediated reactions in general, including the deflation > fusion model. When any one channel is highly favored, such as tritium or > He-3, then there will be another separate distinguishable reaction at play, > and it often involves an alloy or dopant to the lattice or to an > electrolyte. Thus it is distinctly unique, and not a channel reaction. > > 3) The "hydrino" (or fractional hydrogen) mechanism. Several > variations > now exist. The species may be a predecessor step for LENR and may actually > provide no excess heat unless it does proceed to a nuclear reaction. > > 4) The dense hydrogen cluster or dense deuterium model, differentiated > as inverted Rydberg hydrogen or a DDL (deep Dirac layer). The DDL can be > applicable to deuterium and it can result in something completely different > from 1 and 2, such as heat only with no ash. > > 5) The P-e-P mechanism for Ni-H, which envisions protons fusing to > deuterium via screening at much higher probability than in the solar model > > 6) The NASA filing (US 20110255645) suggests an alternative method for > producing "heavy electrons" as a fusion catalyst in what looks like a beta > decay mechanism. This is similar to 2, 5 and 8 > > 7) The proposal of a high temperature BEC - Bose Einstein Condensate > and/or the tetrahedral TSC model which is similar. > > 8) The beta decay/ ultracold neutron mechanism popularized by > Widom-Larsen which is similar to a Brillouin/ NASA explanation. > > 9) Proton addition - to the metal lattice atoms, which was the > original > Focardi/Rossi conception. Rossi later refined this to emphasize only the > heavier nickel isotopes, especially Ni-62 but gammaless. > > 10) Piantelli has a version of Ni-H with gammas and transmutation. > > 11) SPP or surface plasmon polariton catalysis in general - which is a > theory involving plasmons, phonons and photons. This is more of an > "enabler" > pathway for several types of reactions. > > 12) Casimir dynamics, in general, including a dynamical effect, called > DCE. This is an "enabler" pathway, as are other geometry constraints. > > 13) Accelerated nuclear decay. Some experiments benefit from unstable > isotopes like potassium-40 which can undergo accelerated decay rates, > > 14) RPF or reversible proton fusion, which is based on the strong > force, > QCD and a transient state called the diproton, deriving energy from excess > proton mass with no gammas. > > 15) The "nanomagnetism" formative theory involving magnons and cyclical > phase change around the Curie point of Ni. This may be nonnuclear (ZPE > related). > > 16) Any combination or permutation of the above - since none of them is > mutually exclusive, and most actual experiments cannot be defined by a > single hypothesis, adding to the confusion. > > There are more, especially variations and refinements. Pardon me if I have > overlooked your favorite, but this is a running effort and your favorite > may > appear on the next list. > > >
