Jones Beene wrote:
Ed,
Personally, I don't think CF is being suppressed. This would require
an intent and effort to accomplish. In contrast, I think it is simply
ignored because most people think it is not real.
Lets dispense with the term "CF" for a moment ...
....you would agree, would you not, that if the electrolytic loading of
D2 into cathodes of U metal were able to transmute some significant
percentage of the 238 into fissionable material, then there is a huge
non-proliferation risk, no?
Yes, but this is not likely to happen. The cold fusion process tends to
reduce the nucleus to the lowest energy state. U238 has a lower energy
than U235.
That is, IMHO, where the prior "official" initial attempts at
suppression may have arisen. However, I doubt that this kind of
transmutation can take place in anything over trace amounts (Dash et al).
The Dash work has not been replicated and has not been fully evaluated.
Certainly with thorium, which has been better investigated, the evidence
indicates that transmutation has the effect of converting fertile
material to harmless material - which is the opposite of what a
terrorist would want.
Exactly so.
I suspect that people who have looked at the corresponding situation
with U have come to the similar conclusion - that: just as with thorium,
there is no added proliferation risk from heavy water electrolysis of
uranium.
For this reason, the government should have a big incentive to embrace
transmutation, if for no other reason to get rid of radioactive waste.
Yet, the government shows no interest. Therefore, rational
self-interest does not play a role in the government's approach. This
leaves only ignorance and incompetence as an explanation. I hope people
who voted for Bush are getting what they want, because the rest of us
are not.
Ed
Jones
