From: Stephen Cooke
Ø It's a nice process you are describing, but I'm curious how it can generate the mesons reported by Holmlid? Is there some mechanism based on this idea where mesons are produced or can they only generated by very high energy interactions with nucleons and require much higher energies than you are describing here? I am somewhat in Eric’s camp on the mesons, kaons and so on, which could be misidentified and/or have other explanations. The important detail in Holmlid’s work seems to be the clusters of dense hydrogen, and how to make them… That and the elegance of finding a way to make clusters of hydrogen on an inexpensive catalyst, with very high chemical binding energy. The mesons etc. which are claimed to be present could be related to cosmic rays – and/or to a hidden feature of dense hydrogen, such as having a large capture cross-section for muons, neutrinos or other exotica. Didn’t you mention that ? Plus – the sharpness of the laser pulse can cause the occasional nuclear reaction in normal deuterium, even if there was no dense RM. Certainly the dense clusters would seem to make an ideal target for ICF fusion. I am quite happy to leave all of that to the National Labs, in favor of focusing on the low end. That would mean gamma free. All of the high energy results, if accurate, are icing on the cake. The “cake” in this metaphor, would be … finally … a valid explanation for the “real LENR,” with emphasis on “low energy.” If the thermal gain can be understood as chemical, with no gamma and little transmutation – then that is the huge benefit of Holmlid’s work.
