Jed Rothwell wrote:
Stringham, R. When Bubble Cavitation Becomes Sonofusion. in 237rd ACS National Meeting. 2009. Salt Lake City. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StringhamRwhenbubble.pdf If the "deuterium clusters" of Stringham and others are the functional equivalent of Arata's "pycnodeuterium," which seems to be the case, then this is yet another way to perform HCF "Hot-Cold-Fusion" . My New Year's Prediction for LENR is that the "next big thing" will be this hybrid -HCF - which is the two-step process where cold fusion techniques are used to prepare a dense deuterium fuel (pycnodeuterium), following which, any number of hot fusion techniques can be modified for lower input parameter; which can still raise to temperature of the dense fuel into the fusion range - much easier and cheaper to reach than before. Among the hot fusion techniques which should work with pycno are 1) ICF using lasers, but of much lower power than the LLNL "Nova" laser 2) ICF using electron beams, like the Sandia Z machine, but much lower power 3) ICF using accelerated beams of pycno-dust (nanoparticles) into target or colliding beam 4) Sonofusion using pycno-target (Stringham) 5) Farnsworth Fusor using pycno-target, possibly pycno-dust 6) Exploding wires of compressed pycno-dust Due to the density of the fuel - any of HCF reactors could be reducible to geometric size capable of being used in transportation. Perhaps not down to the level of automobile engines, but certainly trains, ocean shipping, and possibly air freight. Cheap and clean electricity would surely make the PHEV into the standard automobile. Jones
