On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 4:01 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: This is a waste of time. The fast protons lose most of their energy ionizing > surrounding atoms. Only one in thousands will undergo a further nuclear > reaction. > Thus the original reaction must be seen as the primary energy generating > mechanism (assuming that there is anything to this at all). >
I think my main takeaway from Piantelli's patents is that he's seeing sufficient fast protons (e.g., in his cloud chamber) to put up the cost of a patent application to capitalize on them. I would be surprised if they are the primary channel. Mizuno's NiD experiments and the increase in species of m=1 are suggestive here; perhaps Piantelli is seeing activity from the deuterium fraction of the hydrogen he's feeding into his device. I also wonder how much energy output Piantelli is seeing in comparison to Rossi. > This would mean that both fast protons and fast electrons would be > produced, but > almost no gammas compared to what one might normally expect (the electrons > will > produce some bremsstrahlung but this will only be about 1% of the amount of > gammas that would have been produced, and furthermore the bremsstrahlung > energy > spectrum is more spread out than a gamma spectrum would have been, so some > it > won't make it through the "shielding". > The principles I'd relate to these points are something like: - If there are MeVs worth of energy per reactant, the energy most likely comes from the nuclei and not the electronic layer. - If there are broadband emissions, the immediate source of the emissions is no doubt from electronic activity and not the nuclei. Putting these two together, I'm inclined towards a nuclear source for the energy that is somehow passing through the electronic layer. In Piantelli's case, I know of no evidence that he's seeing MeVs worth of energy; it would be a stretch to assume that he's seeing the same levels of energy as Rossi, but not totally unreasonable. Eric
