Hi Bob, cheers for the thoughts but it obvs wasn't really a serious exercise - the bosonic nature of the D2 molecule and nucleus, along with the high magnetic moment of Ni as a potential short-range polarising factor just seemed to offer up a possibly-fertile axis of coherence; scaling up might simply widen the goalposts for longer-wavelength virtual particle interactions causing longer-range couplings - the central conceit being that D2 is just inherently more 'volatile' to such spontaneous coherences owing to its natural integer atomic solutions.. almost as tinder for igniting the real fire, which basically reduces to a doubtless-naive attempt to generalise Rossi's theory..
Rossi's OU theory i distilled from his paper (of course) helped along with hints from replies on his JONP that seemed to jell in a consistent direction. At some point last year he mentioned that high-dv/dt impulses were key to stimulating the energy gain conditions, and a few weeks later i realised this was most likely an allusion to the principle technique for generating so-called 'cold plasmas', AKA non-thermal or non-equilibrium plasmas. These are fascinating systems on multiple levels; there's a new frontier here of unexplored terrain, if all uphill - racing through a whole series of closing doors, brief windows of opportunity for forcing a system to adopt novel configurations through shear thermodynamic expediencies of the practicalities of quantisation and the finite time requirements of certain entropic processes such as thermal dissipation. Yet for all their potential novelty, cold plasma are arguably TRUE 'plasmas' in the literal sense, simply due to the fact that their high self-reactivity - reminiscent of that of blood plasma - was the reason that name was borrowed for this 'new state of matter' in the first place; the researchers noticed these exotic self-reactive species being spontaneously generated, were reminded of phages and t-cells or whatevs in blood plasma.. and that's how the name 'plasma' actually came about. Thus you might say cold plasmas are plasmas 'of the first kind' - the thermal plasmas with which we're more familiar are really kind of tagging along on the eponym, there.. ..but i digress; short-width EMF's can selectively energise electrons over ions (owing to the 1836x mass ratio) and thus very little energy, artfully applied, can superheat the electron population of a contained plasma to such temperatures that their thermal phase begins to find resonant modes with their zitterbewegung phase, providing an axis of quantum-classical coherence facilitating long-range Cooper-type couplings of like-polarised electrons to merge spins and so phase-transition to a bosonic state, sharing Fermi numbers.. Usually only complimentary pairs of electrons can share the same quantum energy state - this is why the shell-filling formula's 2n² - but short time-frame manipulations can raise sufficiently-extreme conditions that like-polarised couplings become not just viable but preferable as the lowest-possible energy or entropy configuration. But these circumstances set up an inherent proposition: push this concept to its logical conclusion, and in principle from an initial population of say 1e9 free electrons you could aim to cause all of them to collapse into a single condensate sharing a unitary quantum state, ie. with a Fermi number converging towards '1'. For this, you'd need to super-heat the population uniformly, preventing hotspots from forming and cooking off prematurely (since once a phase transition's initiated it sucks all further input energy), which means allowing sufficient time for input EMF's to dissipate between the electron population, but all while racing against the inevitable dissipation of energy to the ion population, which we want to remain as cool as possible. So, a technical tight-rope to walk, yet there it is.. Get it right and electron condensates precipitate out, nucleating around the slow & heavy protons to form these exotic 'picometric aggregates', having an emission line consistent with the precessional magnetic moment of a protium-nucleated thermo-ZBW condensate. If up-down couplings could in principle halve Fermi numbers of a given electron population, aggregate coherent up-up and down-down couplings would, in principle, cause even more precipitous drops in system entropy - in principle converging to a unitary boson condensing from a super-critical state - thus vacating quantum energy states that will inevitably be lower than those of surrounding environmental free electrons, which instantaneously drop down into these freed-up lower quantum energy states as they become available.. ..when these transient coherences then collapse, the vacuum has to re-assign unique states to all fermions departing the former quasi-boson, in the same instant.. all of their former states now reoccupied by environmental dissipation of quantum entropy.. hence they must necessarily be assigned higher quantum energy states than those they formerly vacated. This gives the extra kick of h-bar from VP's / the vacuum when such clusters dissociate, each cycle decreasing the entropy of the vacuum while increasing the quantum entropy of everything else, which apparently is perfectly safe and sustainable, for now.. (?) The scam's basically exploiting nature's clumsy motions to equilibrium at every step - cook electrons uniformly and evenly up to a super-critical flashover and all condense in the same event, as the lowest-possible energy configuration in the available time - a kind of metastable or homeostatic equilibrium - which in turn vacates unique lower-energy quantum states for environmental fermions to drop down into - again a natural motion towards equilibrium - culminating in the crunch-point of the re-fermionisation transition of the decohering low-entropy quasi-bosonic state in which the vacuum HAS to assign potentially untold fermions higher-energy quantum states than they initially vacated, in the same instant. The energy gain is the anomalous pumping and dumping of entropy from the vacuum into the environment. Whether this polarises the vacuum, undercuts the local value of ZPE, or provides some other more-horrifying solution to the Fermi paradox remains an open question. What seems certain is that Rossi does have effective and robust EM OU, basically canned and all but good to go by all accounts; this much being circumstantial of course. But the areas of theory he's been delving into are target-rich; he's since confirmed that E-cat is, indeed, based upon the principles of non-thermal plasma control, and optimising fluctuations in system entropy is just the physically-inevitable conclusion of the 'cold plasma' concept, arising naturally when you sufficiently energise electrons to the exclusion of ions. An OU system is obvs not really closed but open to the environment in some way, and as such this does seem a potentially viable if novel heist plan, at least from where i'm sitting.. But furthermore, Rossi's developed from a working assumption of some kind of LENR, to dismissing it altogether as a factor in his IP; implying that he knows something about the subject others may have hitherto missed, some kind of identifying criterion or causal factor that can be reliably written out of the equations, thus precluding it as a possibility, apparently to satisfaction of all due diligence.. Hence i remain open to the possibility of these novel extreme low-entropy states perhaps also fostering long-range p-p interactions via the intermediary of singlet-state quantum atmospheres they're momentarily immersed in, perhaps enabling redistributions of compositions that preserve baryon number if not initial disposition.. ie. the possibility of transmutations being somewhat incidental to the energy gain, or perhaps even endothermic and fuelled by it, rather than necessarily releasing nuclear PE as from the gluon field.. ..and likewise, the possibility of these novel effects cropping up in other unexplained cases that might seem to resonate.. so, yep.. trying to apply it to the Thermacore runaway may seem no small stretch, but for the aspect that initially drew my attention - D2 presenting multiple potential bosonic phases, and thus novel axes of coherence, on its way down from molecular to atomic and ultimate breakdown configurations; one might even envisage such confluences between different states of matter in the same gas, should they became thermodynamically expedient under certain manipulations.. the gist reducing to a Maxwellian daemon between the vacuum and baryonic / thermodynamic realms, albeit dependent upon 2LoT and all conservation principles holding precisely as they're supposed to at each step in the cycle. Rossi's 'E' day's coming up fast - under a fortnight now. We've all seen enough of these would-be day-zero's come and go to get too excited, but the revolution won't be televised, remember.. eventually one of these OU claimants - a Rossi, a Ylidiz or whomever - is gonna be legit, and cosmological sustainability be damned, on that day all other energy techs are a busted flush. 11 days to go, tick tock.. ;)