Apparently, many of the observers of LENR, especially among those who did not attend, are unwilling to give due credit to the paradigm shift which happened earlier this year at the MIT colloquium - in the Clean-Planet presentation of Yoshino, based on Mizuno's work. This is arguably the most important experiment with deuterium since 1989. This was like a hand-grenade being tossed into the field of LENR and Yoshino's demeanor blew away the audience.
This reluctance of others to see the full impact of this amazing result -
despite the fact that Mizuno's experiment appears to be far and away the
most robust experiment ever conducted with deuterium as the active gas (over
100 megajoules) is regrettable. The images of the setup should give every
indication of a top-notch, well-funded effort. Nothing comparable is
going-on with deuterium anywhere in 2014, AFAIK.
What is the next highest energy output for a single run (using deuterium,
not hydrogen) to compare against this 100 megajoules? My suspicion is that
it is at least 500% lower.
The problem with Yoshino/Mizuno is that it does not fit into prior
expectations of 24 years, not into the explanatory framework of cold fusion.
In fact, it overturns the apple-carts in a way that many find most
disturbing, especially since it really could be the premier experiment with
deuterium. Yet:
1) Deuterium does not convert into helium
2) Deuterium molecules, in the sense of a mass-4 species, are
essentially gone and replaced with mass-2 species which is not necessarily
H2.
3) There were indications of mass-3 and of course mass-4 earlier in the
experiment
Curiously, there is an hybrid explanation which is "out there" and can
accurately explain this circumstance completely, and can even explain the
past claims of helium in the legion of milliwatt experiments, but it
involves merging CQM and nanomagnetism with LENR. The so-called experts are
balking at any hybrid.
I doubt that many here on vortex, really grasp how elegant this explanation
is, other than Robin and a few others who have already been trying to
integrate the two cultures. That is because LENR supporters want to freeze
out CQM, and Mills supporters want to freeze out LENR. Most disturbing,
Mizuno himself seems to be immune to accurate explanations, since he cares
mostly about the data (to his credit) but apparently thinks his work is
still a form of fusion (out of habit).
It is almost a clash of cultures but it is finally coming to a resolution.
Jones
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