Bob-- Your logic about cap-discharge at 2000 volts seems correct to me. However, it does not explain the SPAWAR experience where hot alphas were seen in a regular Pd electrode unless the local electric field at defects in the Pd electrode (sharp cracks etc) produced hot D particles at the start and hot fusion occurred to cause the reaction to proceed. I do not believe SPAWAR's experiments were shielded to protect against fast neutrons or gammas however. I may be wrong in the existence of shielding.
The following is a link to a report of the SPAWAR experiments. If you have not watched it, I would recommend it. http://www.ecoinventions.ca/twenty-year-history-of-lattice-enabled-nuclear-reactions-lenr-hiding-in-plain-sight/ Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Higgins To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 7:51 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:A Stake in the Heart - a stunning revelation Regarding exploding deuterium loaded wires ... On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: 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. I am not a study of capacitive discharge exploded deuterium loaded wires. From what I know of the subject, the discharge results in the evaporation of the wire and the formation of a short term plasma. Given the wire is pre-loaded with deuterium, the deuterium would be a part of that plasma. I don't think I have seen any reports which time the neutron burst to before plasma or during plasma. However, given that neutron bursts are seen, it is likely the fusion occurs during plasma, making this not a condensed matter fusion, but a simple 2-body kinetic ion-ion (hot) fusion with the corresponding branching ratios of hot fusion. In this case, the wire is nothing but a storage medium for the deuterium, like the pellets in inertial confinement fusion. No one would call the inertial confinement fusion "cold fusion" just because the target is initially in a condensed matter state. Do you have a paper describing the timing of neutron output to plasma formation? Do you have anything that would suggest that the fusion is occurring in the condensed matter prior to the condensed matter being evaporated and turned into a plasma? Bob Higgins
