At 06:30 PM 9/30/2009, mix...@bigpond.com wrote:
Note that in at least
one of Dr. Oriani's papers he reports ionizing radiation emitted
from the vapor
above a CF cell.
I don't think that there is any substantial suspicion that this
radiation results from anything other than decay of radioactive
products coming from the cathode. (Or maybe some level of radiation
from the cathode.)
I think any interest in the field is due to our common need to
find a new source
of energy, so I think your belief that people only want to read about lattice
based CF is probably misguided.
He didn't say that. He said that people interested in lattice-based
CF might not like having a lot of papers on a lot of other
only-peripherally related subjects.
I also think that while a lattice may well *frequently* provide the necessary
environment, it may not be a *necessary* requirement.
I'm unaware of anything other than muon-catalyzed fusion that
bypasses the Coulomb barrier, without substantial confinement. It
might not be a metal lattice; the whole biological transmutation
approach, we might suspect, would represent protein-catalyzed fusion,
basically a protein, I assume, setting up confinement conditions that
facilitate fusion.
