Robin van Spaandonk's message of October 02, 2009 , Hi Robin and Jed,
Robin wrote: >Let me give a concrete example. Muon catalyzed fusion clearly meets the >definition of a Low Energy Nuclear Reaction, and hence papers on it could find a >place in your library, but I suspect you wouldn't even consider including them. >I understand how this has happened. It's because CF started with lattice based >reactions, and all the work since has also been lattice based (AFAIK)- in fact I >doubt that anyone other than me has even considered that it might not need to be >lattice based. I can think of at least 5 people other than you that have seriously considered, based on Mills' gas phase experiments, that there may well be a significant possibility of gas based cold fusion reactions. There was even an "unofficial" poster paper at ICCF 14 describing replications of Mills' gas phase experiments by a former Mills' associate. Mills does not want to be associated with cold fusion for political reasons and will not submit papers to LENR-CANR. Yes, it is reasonable to feel almost alone in considering non lattice based cold fusion, but there are a few of us out there quietly considering the relationship of Mills experiments to cold fusion experiments. It is interesting to consider that Mills' gas phase experiments are clearly overunity and apparently easy to replicate compared to solid state cold fusion experiments. The simplicity of H2 + He in a microwave plasma certainly requires new physics for an explanation. >My point Jed, is that neither LENR nor CANR specifically implies the presence of >a lattice, hence I think restricting the content to papers based only on lattice >based LENR-CANR is too severe a restriction. It may as yet turn out that it >really does only occur in a lattice, but I don't think we are that far along yet >in our understanding of the phenomenon (or perhaps phenomena if it turns out >that there are actually several different mechanisms capable of producing >LENR-CANR). Unfortunately the new name for the conference and journal, CMNS - Condensed Matter Nuclear Science seems to exclude gas phase reactions. A very unfortunate choice in my opinion. Fortunately, it will probably not be used as a reason for rejecting interesting papers. Now, if only people outside BLP would do some Mills experiments and submit them to CMNS / ICCF conferences it might provide some needed communition between the fields which we believe to be potentially related. George Holz Varitronics Systems geo...@varisys.com
