*"How would you explain that particular ash morphology, considering the shape of the nickel fuel grain clusters? At the same time, how would you explain the evolving COP that appeared to be accelerating as the experiment ended?"*
I would explain increasing COP over time as a result of Lithium transmutation. As the system operates over time, Lithium is produced as a reaction byproduct. But Lithium nanoparticles are also a source of the reaction. Therefore, as time goes on, more and more material that supports the reaction is produced by the reaction itself. This lithium (lithium 6) production through transmutation might be the root of a progressive positive feedback loop. On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:13 AM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
