From: Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote:
Why could Dennis Craven’s not enter and possibly win it with
a new version of the NI-Week demo?
* That would be sweet! He sure would deserve to win.
* I loved that demo. I even get the impression that I am more
impressed by it than Cravens himself. That makes me a little nervous. Maybe
he knows something ba-a-a-d about it that I don't know? With most other
demos I have been less impressed than the person doing the demo.
I can see your point, but my impression is not that he is unimpressed, but
that he realizes the similarity to Arata, which also was understated – and
the similarity to Les Case and the Arata replications, and moreover - that
he has also improved it, possibly substantially - and finally… (but most
importantly)… that he is not the same kind of self-promoter as are many
inventors in LENR. As to the range of improvements, I am going by Bob Higgins’ visit, where it appears that one reported improvement was going from D2 to a mix of D2 and H2. That detail could be important for understanding the basis for the thermal gain. It make the mechanism more likely to be “non-fusion” (i.e. the fusion cross-section for D+D exceeds D+H). Quite possibly, there are additional improvements besides the gas mix. And finally – it is likely that Dennis is way ahead of us all on this, and that he has been waiting calmly for the X Prize to become formalized, and has an even better demo to present than the one in Austin! He is in a very good position to reap the rewards, and I hope he wins it, but we can only hope that they have not made the “Rules” for the X-prize so onerous that it is difficult for LENR to qualify. Obviously, if they made the requirement to be a minimum of say - 100 watts – then that could eliminate this type of demo. Jones
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