Robin van Spaandonk wrote: > In reply to Jones Beene's message of Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:09:22 -0700 (PDT): > Hi, > [snip] >> To clarify one point on what has yet to be shown by Rown: is the excess >> heat the result of hydrogen "shrinkage" only ? - and therefore there is >> zero transmutation, zero gammas and zero ash ? >> >> OK - It should be mentioned prominently that 24Mg is the most common isotope >> of magnesium (about 79%) and therefore if some kind of virtual neutron is >> involved in this reactor with 23Na, which gives anaomalous energy, and it is >> followed by a low energy beta decay (an order of magnitude less than >> expected) then there should be some anomalous magnesium showing up in place >> of sodium in the reactor. >> >> Also "hyperfine coupling" should be mentioned here as Mills' CQM has >> fine-structure written all over it <g> This the weak magnetic interaction >> between electrons and nuclei. Hyperfine coupling causes the hyperfine >> splitting of atomic or molecular energy levels and supposedly this would do >> two things in the context of 23Na- which are to further enhance shrinkage >> and also lower the half-life for the transmutation into magnesium. >> >> Jones > > I am somewhat confused by the Rowan report. To start with they fail to mention > how much Na (&/or NaOH) was used in either cell. > They fail to explain where the Al in reaction 2 on page 10 comes from. > In short, I would have expected a full analysis to have specified *exactly* > which chemicals and how much of each ...
Please note that the report was apparently not formatted as a formal paper intended for publication. One thing about papers intended for publication in a journal: They do *not* say "Confidential and Proprietary" at the bottom of every page! But this paper does. Ergo, this must have been done as a report *to* *BLP* by the group at Rowan University. The intended audience may, in fact, have known exactly what the parameters to the experiments were, and hence a lot of space devoted to that was not necessary; the results and measurements were what they were interested in, and those are laid out pretty clearly, I think. Apparently, after receiving the report BLP decided to publish it on their site. While that would have been done with the permission and knowledge of the Rowan researchers it still might not have been something either group planned on in advance. Had the Rowan folks written this up for publication, they might have done some things a little differently, and included more details on the experimental setup.
