From: Bob Cook
Jones, do you know what they said about the possible reactions in the ref 7
document noted above? Their comments may be of interest to LENR as well as
dark matter.
Basically they said they could not confirm anything more than a modest thermal
anomaly, no gammas or x-rays were detected –but—since they also had no meter to
detect x-rays below 5 keV, and really not below 15 keV (as no one besides NASA
and a few others has this) - they could not possibly have seen the predicted
emission line at 3.7 keV, if it was there.
IMHO this line could be the main source of thermal gain in LENR. Lack of
evidence for fusion reactions only indicates lack of fusion but not lack of
gain. X-rays at this level go to UV and then to heat. The UV which Mills sees
is possibly secondary emission from this same x-ray line as well, since he
documents only a continuum, and not sharp emission lines. Secondary emissions
are often seen as a continuum.
A gain of 3.7 keV per atom is far greater gain than chemical. The unavoidable
conclusion, whether they like it or not, has to be that the DDL does not lead
to fusion, but can lead to thermal gain. This is an old paper and things have
matured, so it is a mistake to put too much reliance on it. One can look at
this era in the 1990s as both vital but confused – setting the stage for where
we are going with say Mizuno – which as of now is the premiere or hero
documented effort in all of LENR (including Rossi, at least until TIP2 comes
out).
Cannot Mizuno be explained as deuterium molecules, mass-4, which are going to
DDL atoms mass-2 in a plasma impact on nickel ? The 3.7 keV emission line for D
would be similar to H. As for Bob Higgins’ question as to how this species
(DDDL) can turn up in a mass-spec, since it is presumably too tightly bound to
ionize…?... that, I do not know.
But a good bet is that DDDL is the species which is being seen at mass-2 having
been converted from deuterium molecules and giving up the x-ray with no fusion.
