----- Original Message ---- From: Horace Heffner "The Hora and Miley article prompts suggestion of a CANR experiment. That is to codeposit uranium with Pd by using a mixed palladium chloride and uranium chloride electrolyte."
When the full story is revealed - or even before - if the cynic/historian were to attempt to explain the years of "official neglect" from the DoE, DARPA and other funders in the USA towards LENR since 1989, the most likely hypothesis, IMHO, which fits the facts begins along the lines you suggest... ... that this technique was already known in the eighties ... which is to say that a range of experiments with deuterium-loaded Uranium- had already been done (secretly) and that positive results were such that authorities did not want to allow continued civilian work with any kind on D-loaded metal. This kind of control would have been impossible to implement, since the LENR experiments are not that complicated. Rather than intervene "officially" which would have indicated some kind of endorsement to countries with nuclear aspirations -- like Iran, N. Korea, and the like, they may have decided at some level to resort to the policy of having surrogates (in places like MIT) issue altered reports which indicated nothing unusual was going on. This hypothesis is probably giving the authorities more credit than they deserve - as they have never tried to act in so subtle of an approach before... not to mention the SPAWARS data - which was published without any intervention AFAIK ... which fact argues against an 'official neglect' policy unless the Navy was not in on the original discovery. Hey that is not impossible, given history. Side Note: The Navy vis-a-vis the rest of governement wrt nuclear energy. Before 1944, President Roosevelt had instructed that the atomic bomb effort be an *Army Only* program and that the Navy be excluded from all deliberations. Totally excluded. Navy research on atomic power, however, was already being conducted primarily for the possibility of submarine use, and was more advanced in 1944 than realized. Oppenheimer informed Groves that the thermal diffusion experiments of Philip Abelson at the Philadelphia Naval Yard deserved a closer look. He was overruled. In hindsight, that technology could have been combined with magnetic or RF to possibly exceed the competing techniques, but instead it was bypassed. The was a base level of mistrust which may have endured. ... but anyway... and if nothing else, the possibility of U-deuteride-anomalies makes for a fine MacGuffin for the next blockbuster spy thriller... hey the return of Simon Templar, and another secret tucked away safely in Elisabeth Shue's ample bodice. Horace mentioned U235 - but it seems equally possible that D-loading of depleted U might convert some of it into Pu over time by a yet unknown (or unpublished) mechanism. Needless to say, this outcome is far scarier, from the standpoint of terrorism risk, than is hijacking airplanes for instance, since Pu is relatively easy to separate and enrich chemically. Jones
