-----Original Message----- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax > (3) any other ideas for a minimally expensive and simple experimental set-up that would demonstrate a LENR effect?
These are some good ideas. Another suggestion that comes to mind is based on the simplest experiment which has shown a high degree of repeatability - which is the Arata-Zhang and offshoots ... since there can be a thermal effect with no power input, and therefore nothing that can be claimed as input measurement error. Given that the critical feature of the experiment (in my interpretation) and the 'sine qua non' which is purely geometric - is Pd with an active reaction zone within the Forster radius geometry of 2-10nm, and given that the most convincing way to prove the effect is probably NOT calorimetry, but instead via a "radiation signature" that must of necessity underlie the heat (even if downshifted) ... then ... all of that can guide us in the best way to proceed for minimal cost and maximum impact. IOW - that signature would likely have a downshifted UV component, if it relates to LENR and there is a QM nuclear reaction (and no other way to get UV light onto the measuring device or media). It might make sense to provide TWO side-by-side radiation monitors in the form of two very inexpensive UV detector devices: chips, meters, cards or whatever - one covered by a sample and the other not. The sample would be have a layer of 2 nm of palladium deuteride and a sealant. Here is a site on a "UV card" - which is a crude but perhaps moderately accurate gauge of UV radiation, at a $5 cost. This is FAR less expensive, and in a way actually more accurate than CR-39 film. The card may or may not be sensitive enough, but it gives an idea of where this suggestion is going. I have not researched it at all and am only offering an idea that could possibly work in the way you suggest. Or not. http://www.south-seas.com/uvcard2.html The idea would be that over a several day run - the card with a sample of Pd-deuteride (in nano geometry) mounted on it would show a significantly higher UV radiation signature (indoors of course) than the one without. The sample of loaded Pd film with need only be in the microgram range. Jones
