I'm interested in participating with others to develop and market
cold fusion experimental kits that could be sold and used to show one
or more of the known low-energy nuclear reactions.
There are a number of possibilities I'll toss out for reaction. The
details are not important, the concept it.
(1) very small codeposition cell. possibly sealed, limited amount of
heavy water in it and palladium chloride and whatever, and two
appropriate electrodes. Small size and limited gas evolution could
then allow sealed operation even without recombination. Results:
maybe heat, but, possibly more practical, the cell would contain a
small piece of CR-39 close to the cathode. The cells would be cheap,
many identical. Some would be controls, by coded number, with
ordinary water instead of heavy water. The user would run the cell
for a recorded time and current profile. An instrumentation package
might be rented by the experimenter, with programmable power supply
and various controls and sensors and recording of data on an ordinary
computer through a USB interface. The sealed and numbered cells would
be sent to a lab for helium analysis and etching and photography of
the CR-39. The experimenter would cover the costs of all this, and
would get the results. And the results would also be shared.
(2) a kit to culture the bacterium deinococcus radiodurans in the
presence of Mn-55. The resulting cultures and controls would be sent
to a lab for Mossbauer spectroscopy using a Co-57 gamma source, which
is exquisitely specific for the detection of Fe-57, claimed by
Vyosotski to be found in such cultures (ACS LENR Sourcebook and many
ICCF Conference papers).
(3) any other ideas for a minimally expensive and simple experimental
set-up that would demonstrate a LENR effect?
Science fair kits, perhaps. Uniform, sell a few thousand (cheap
enough, interested people would buy more than several). If it works,
it would become impossible to continue to deny reproducibility.
One of the most cogent of criticisms of LENR work has been that, with
few exceptions, no two experimental reports were of the same setup.
This would massively address that problem, and be self-supporting.
If it doesn't work, if this is too difficult, I start to wonder if
maybe I've been duped.... Codeposition is alleged to be 100%, and
fast. Okay, is it? It's alleged to be difficult, with many unstated
but necessary conditions. Okay, what conditions, exactly, and why
couldn't these be controlled precisely in a mass-produced kit? Need
purity? Fine, whatever purity is needed; the quantities in each cell
would be low, that's one reason why codeposition and very small
cells. No bulk palladium needed, only enough palladium chloride for a
thin layer, fully loaded, for maybe as little as a few minutes or few
hours of operation.
And most people interested in cold fusion seem to have avoided the
Vyosotskii findings. Biological transmutation? "Let me go sit on the
other side of the room, I don't want to be seen next to this guy." As
it happens, however, I was familiar with Momssbauer spectroscopy and
saw Vyosotskii's reported results as high certainty for
identification of Fe-57. Which should not be in that culture if the
bacterium isn't transmuting it, period. I think most people look at
Mossbauer spectroscopy as just another technique, with so many
possible artifacts.... I don't think so.
Radiodurans is famous for extremely high radiation resistance. It's
conceivable that a highly radiation resistant bacterium could evolve
a means of, to speculate, forming a tetrahedral symmetric condensate
using a protein to confine trace deuterium in normal water, thus
creating the fusion-facile collapsed TSC as theorized by Takahashi.
It's no more impossible than for fusion to happen in palladium
deuteride. Not expected, for sure! Neither one. Except by people like
Fleischmann, and, apparently, Vyosotskii. Fleischmann has told us
what he was looking for and why. Anyone know about Vyosotskii?
Most cold fusion research has been oriented toward scaling up the
process, making the effect stronger. This approach doesn't need that.
If the cells are cheap enough, it wouldn't even need to be very
reliable, just moderately so.
Anyone else interested in this?
