Jones-
By hot fusion I mean fusion that occurs because a hot incoming particle is
able to overcome the coulomb barrier and fuse to the target. Production
particles from fusion coming out at high energy do not constitute hot fusion
in my book.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jones Beene" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 7:08 PM
Subject: RE: [Vo]:A Stake in the Heart - a stunning revelation
From: Bob Higgins
* Claytor's results are not hot fusion because: 1) it only works with
certain wire cathodes - the cathode condensed matter must be present and in
the right form or there will be no tritium, and 2) the neutron rate he
produces is very low (4E-9 of tritium) - not characteristic of hot fusion.
Bob – “Not characteristic of hot fusion”? Not sure what you mean by that.
Fusion of deuterons to tritium does NOT produce neutrons in hot fusion.
A proton is left over. You may be suggesting that little He3 happens in his
technique, but that only means a unique branching ratio.
* Thus, Claytor is producing fusion, but not hot fusion.
If he gets almost no He3, then there is a different branching ratio from a
plasma environment, but to know whether it is hot or not requires much more
information than this.
* Since it requires the condensed matter environment, it could easily
be classified as a LENR phenomenon. I stand by my remarks about the
inability of his 1500V-2500V supply to be able to accelerate electrons or
protons to 1.5-2.5 keV due to high pressure scattering collisions in his
high density plasma.
But you do admit, one would hope, that deuterium loaded wires, which is a
condensed matter environment, following a high amp pulse from a 2000v cap –
and no plasma anywhere at the start - will produce lots of hot fusion, even
though the deuterons were essentially stationary and extremely dense, and
even if the wire was cold as ice.
No one can doubt that 2000 volts will produce hot fusion.
Thus the case NOT has been made that all of Claytor’s results are “cold
fusion” even if he chooses to call it by that name.
Jones
