One of the insights that we might possibly draw from the Mizuno experiment is that there might be a mix of exothermic and endothermic nuclear reactions going on simultaneously in LERN transmutation reactions.
If the cause of LENR is the excitation of the vacuum through the injection of very energetic EMF (magnetic), it might be possible that the energy intensive magnetic fields supported by exothermic gainful nuclear reactions might be injected into the vacuum enclosing the nucleus which might possibly supply the energy needed to make endothermic nuclear reactions possible. Such a situation would make analyzing how energy is produced in a LENR reaction very complicated and confusing. For example, the iron and helium seen in some LENR experiments could be derived from an endothermic alpha decay of nickel. In a similar way, chromium and titanium could be produced through the same endothermic alpha decay mechanism from higher Z elements in a series of alpha emission based reactions to lower Z elements. This alpha decay reaction could be the source of helium seen in many LENR experiments. The energy needed to cause such alpha decays could come from the exothermic fusion of hydrogen and or helium into boron, lithium and beryllium. As long as the LENR reaction is exothermic on the average, any sort of nuclear reaction can occur because the energy storehouse of the highly energetic magnetic solitons which catalyze transmutation could supply stored magnetic energy that could be shared later in a subsequent endothermic reaction. On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting proposal, Jones. I'll have to think about it. Thanks for the > pointer to the paper. > > On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > > If Mizuno is correct we could add a fourth pathway for the dd reaction in >> LENR. That would be p+p+p+p. It is not clear if this reaction should be >> called fusion or fission or a new form of IC :-) but as of July 2014, it >> looms as the most important unexplained experiment on the horizon for >> deuterium-based LENR. >> > > For this one, my working hypothesis is that Mizuno is seeing these two > reactions in tandem: > > (X)Ni + d → (X+1)Ni + p (Oppenheimer-Phillips process) > p + d → p + p + n → p + p + p (about 10 min. later) > > This tack obviously has several objections to worry about, such as the > lack of detected neutrons and the lack of activation. My initial strategy > for dealing with these objections is to wonder whether the channel is > actually pretty small, in comparison to any energy that is developed. > > Eric > >
