More practical than a radioactive source would be a tuned pulsed laser to ionize Ag, if that is all that is necessary to create an effective catalyst.
Bob Cook ________________________________ From: Jones Beene <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2016 8:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Vo]:A "eutectic mist" for maximum catalytic surface area The recent revelation from Mills/ BrLP ... that after 25 years and $100 million spent, the most effective catalyst found thus far is silver... and he uses it in the form of vapor by passing an electric arc... this scenario raises the question of an alternative method which could be implemented at lower operating parameters. The boiling point of silver is almost 4000F (2190 C) which is out of the question for most experimenters. An alternative to thermal vaporization would be a mist or fog - possibly created from the liquid state by ultrasonics - similar to the foggers are used with water. In the case of silver, the melting point is high as a pure metal; however, silver is notorious for forming eutectics with markedly lower m.p. The most interesting eutectic found so far for LENR would be lithium-silver; since lithium may catalytic in a different way as well as active for a fusion reaction. Thus a lithium-silver eutectic which melts at less than 300 C could be irradiated with ultrasound to produce a catalytic fog or mist in a near vacuum chamber which is much easier to pull off on a small scale than the massive arc required to vaporize silver. Ionization would be initiated using a radioactive isotope and become self-sustained at a higher level by EUV emission.
