IMHO, emitting electrons is a red herring. True, electron production(pumping) has an amplification effect in the process but electrons are not causative in the way Piantelle believes. Piantelli has this concept of a negative ion that takes the place of an electron in the orbit of an atom and being very massive the negative ion catalyzes fusion like a muon does but much better. He has not changed his thinking on this reaction mechanism substantially for many years now as far as I can tell. He should have kept this theory out of his patent.
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:35 AM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> *The at least one electron-donor material is selected from the group >> consisting of: Cs, Ba, Sr, Rb, Li, Na, Ca, K, Fr, Ra, in particular this >> electron-donor material is Cesium.* >> > > (From Piantelli's patent.) > > I'm not a fan of Piantellli's understanding of what's going on in LENR. > But I do respect that he's been working with nickel since early days. And > there's the cool story about the cloud chamber, where he placed a piece of > metal that had been undergoing LENR in a cloud chamber and it threw off all > kinds of activity for a long period of time. > > All of the metals above appear to have low work functions. What is meant > by "electron-donor" in this context appears to be that they're hot > cathodes. This detail is a gratifying one indeed to turn up. Elsewhere we > have speculated that Rossi's catalyst might be something that had a low > work function and emitted electrons. > > Eric > >
