At 01:27 PM 7/29/2011, Terry Blanton wrote:
<http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/07/29/possible-low-or-no-levels-of-excess-heat-in-rossi-device/>http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/07/29/possible-low-or-no-levels-of-excess-heat-in-rossi-device/
"Our analysis shows a possible energy gain of one to two times."
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I wonder who constitutes "Our"?
apparently Krivit has collected a lot of comments from people he
considers expert. And indeed they may be.
I was actually fairly impressed by his description of his report. I'm
looking forward to reading it.
Of course, he does his little number on the "fusion" thing. He writes:
One of the main reasons for their narrow interest in Pd/D systems
was that this was simply the popular route within the field. The
underlying basis for this popularity came from a common belief held
by many researchers in the field that LENR processes were dominated
by a deuterium-deuterium fusion reaction.
LENR researcher Pamela Mosier-Boss of the U.S. Navy's Space and
Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego wrote to me in September
2010 and explained her perspective.
"I simply believe our data shows that hot fusion is actually
occurring inside the lattice," Mosier-Boss wrote.
And, in fact, it does. But Krivit doesn't understand what she's
talking about. She is talking about her neutron findings, indicating
(rare) 14 MeV neutrons, as I recall the energy, which may indicate
D-T reactions.
These are phenomenally rare, and give us practically no information
about the primary reaction. The primary reaction, according to most
theories, including W-L theory, by the way, may rarely produce some
hot products that can then cause secondary reactions by hot fusion.
This is a shocking lack of understanding, Krivit doesn't seem to
understand the physics. He's just thinking "hot fusion is bogus" and
everything is then interpreted in line with that.
When Mosier-Boss says that "hot fusion is actually occurring," she
isn't saying that "cold fusion" is "hot fusion." That would be
idiotic, right? She's not saying that "LENR processes are dominated
by a deuterium-deuterium fusion reaction," she isn't even talking
about deuterium-deuterium, as I recall. She's looking at evidence for
classic hot fusion reactions taking place at low levels, which
implies the presence of LENR, something to create the very high
energies needed for hot fusion.
Krivit's whole concept of "deuterium-deuterium fusion reaction" fails
to understand the breadth of the theories. There are indeed some who
think that this reaction is still a possibility, though it obviously
isn't as simple as two deuterons mashing together, there has to be
involvement of Other Stuff. I'm more interested, myself, in multibody
fusion, which includes Takahashi's Be-8 theory, which is obviously
incomplete, or cluster fusion, involving larger bodies.
He is correct,though, that theoretical considerations made people
think that hydrogen reactions were less likely.
Krivit has never reported thoroughly on Widom-Larsen theory, and he
certainly hasn't reported on the problems with it! Starting with a
lack of correspondence with the experimental data!
