On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Robert Ellefson <[email protected]> wrote:
How would you explain that > particular ash morphology, considering the shape of the nickel fuel grain > clusters? I suspect that the further we get away from everyday physics, the harder it will be to understand LENR. That's one of the reasons I'm betting on simple, prosaic electric arcing at a microscopic level between electrically insulated metal grains (or perhaps metal vapor in higher temperature systems). The arcing would be responsible for accelerating partially ionized species such as 7Li into the substrate wall. If a large enough number of such species were drawn into a narrow area, not unlike in a dense plasma focus, I think a small but substantial portion of them could be knocked into the larger lattice sites enough to achieve occasional neutron stripping. Eric
