Jones Beene wrote:
The newer generation of LED array lasers however is high efficiency and, fortunately, the low-cost diode lasers designed for such things as data storage are exactly in the correct range for this LENR work.
Okay, I went and read the paper. They were using plain old laser diodes in the upper 600 nm range. These run about 50% efficiency. A program called SHEDS has lab efficiency at 65% with a goal of 80%. (All percentages are power line to optical.)
Considering the effect of the optical source only, this is a COP of 10.
