I can't comment too much on the technical side, but personally I think the work is quite interesting if not a little obscure. I think it's appreciated by certain people in the field for its novel creation of x-ray like emissions, and I think it does likely provide an important piece to the puzzle. Why x-rays with certain orientations? Certainly there most be a characteristic of the mechanism that has a cause & effect connection to this observation. Your suggestions are certainly interesting. I think Storms would argue its a byproduct of the NA-structure within the NAE. He tends to think his linear chain can resonate and produce laser-like photons. Maybe, maybe not, but at least he's taken a stab at it. I think Hagelstein draws on Karabuts work as well, but the relevance to his model is not readily apparent as Peter's work is hard to understand sometimes (for a layman like me), maybe other theorists have as well but I didn't understand how his observations were incorporated into their work.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > There is a researcher by the name of Alexander Karabut who has studied > glow discharge in PdD systems for many years. Here is a brief discussion > by Ludwik Kowalski of some of Karabut's work: > > http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/223karabut.html > > In one kind of experiment, Karabut has carried out glow discharge with a > palladium cathode and deuterium in the chamber. He has seen some > interesting things doing this type of experiment. He has used photographic > plates to capture strong evidence of both collimated and multidirectional > x-rays being emitted from the palladium cathode in the course of trial > runs. For the energy of the x-rays, Kowalski mentions photons in the range > of 1.2 to 3 keV. > > If we set aside for the moment the possibility of exotic states of matter > that might produce the x-rays, they might otherwise be due to the high > energy excitation of L-level electrons in the palladium lattice atoms (see > "Electron binding energies," down the page): > > http://www.webelements.com/palladium/orbital_properties.html > > The L-shell electrons might be excited through different means, but the > collimation of some of the x-rays is suggestive of a beam of protons or > deuterons travelling through layers of the target. If this is what is > causing the collimation, there would be nothing specific to the palladium > system in the phenomenon (except for the energy levels), and one could > expect a similar phenomenon to arise with a nickel target. > > Another point worth drawing attention to is Kowalski's calculation of the > rate of transmutations suggested in one of Karabut's papers, at 1E13 > transmutations per second, which is well into Watt-level production. In > light of this calculation, one might be nervous taking too much to heart > the claim that is sometimes heard that transmutations are not seen on the > order needed to explain excess heat. That this is LENR and not something > else is suggested by the levels of excess heat reported by Karabut and the > lack of gammas (if my memory serves me). > > Eric > >
