[quote="Asterix"][quote="JoeP"]If not nuclear, it probably will not revolutionize anything, but it certainly is a little bit irresponsible to not fully investigate.
These experiments are pretty cheap and are tabletop, so, so what? I like what the Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project is doing. You guys and gals(?) go! And if you happen to find the last apple within arm's reach, we all benefit hugely![/quote] To be blunt, after 25 years of someone trying to show that it's real, I wonder if we don't have more of a case of digging through a manure pile trying to find a pony, than picking an apple. I tend to look at what MFMP are doing as more of an indictment of Celani's suspect work than proof of LENR. He gave them the magic wires, vetted their reactor design and they got nothing. So now it's on to powder... As to the conspiracy theorists, I'm not on some anti-LENR payroll--I have nothing to gain by LENR acceptance or repudiation. In the beginning, I was willing to entertain the idea that Rossi or Defkalion might actually have something worth looking into, but that's increasingly less likely as time goes by.[/quote] Workable engineering concepts are required to make a LENR system work. The KEY engineering concept is the production of nano-spicks on the surface of 5 micron microparticles. The spikes should be as sharp as possible to concentrate the projection of the magnetic fields produced by SPPs formed by these sharp nanostructures. These nanostructures should be in the form of a parabola for the proper projection and focusing of the magnetic field in a tight beam. see Surface plasmon polariton beam focusing with parabolic nanoparticle chains http://www.opticsinfobase.org/view_article.cfm?gotourl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eopticsinfobase%2Eorg%2FDirectPDFAccess%2FC327714B%2DDEF1%2D76CB%2D49D0E086EF9282B0%5F134709%2Foe%2D15%2D11%2D6576%2Epdf%3Fda%3D1%26id%3D134709%26seq%3D0%26mobile%3Dno&org= [quote]Summarizing, we have realized the efficient SPP focusing with parabolic chains of gold nanoparticles. The influence of excitation wavelength and geometrical system parameters has been investigated with the help of LRM imaging, demonstrating good stability and robustness of the focusing effect. Numerical simulations based on the Green’s tensor formalism have shown very good agreement with the experimental results, suggesting the usage of elliptical corrections for parabolic structures to improve their focusing of slightly divergent SPP beams. The SPP splitting effect observed with narrow parabolic structures might also be found useful in SPP micro-optics.[/quote]
