I was referring to "explanations" by "proponents" or others,
justifying W-L theory in the face of serious objections (not the
pseudoskeptical "it's impossible" objections, but the real thing).
Goatguy, there, does come up with some of what I've mentioned, plus
other stuff. He's focusing on NiH, though which is a huge red herring
for this entire field.
We have very little experimental evidence on NiH -- and practically
nothing trustworthy on Rossi's work -- compared to PdD.
I'll reply to one of his objections (which is similar to one of mine).
Goatguy is pointing that full absorption implies isotropic emission
of gammas, amazing by itself, but this doesn't apply if the NAE is
entirely contained (all directions). That seems terribly unlikely,
however. Especially since the neutron generation effect is proposed
as a surface effect.
My objection to the gamma absorption device is simply that there is
no known experimental evidence that it exists. And it would be easy
to demonstrate, as Goatguy points out.
Goatguy doesn't seem to address the rate problem, not in the same
way, but he does point out that far more transmutation would be
expected than is observed. In PdD cold fusion, the ash is helium,
almost entirely. That's why Krivit is attacking the excess heat/He-4
results. Those are, effectively, fatal to W-L theory, but Krivit does
not seem to realize that all the alleged errors he finds could only
push the Q a little bit, not do away with the findings. W-L theory
would predict very little helium.
Look, these objections are *obvious*, yet they are unaddressed in the
W-L promotional literature, which unfortunately includes Krivit's New
Energy Times.
At 02:07 PM 4/5/2012, Guenter Wildgruber wrote:
Von: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <a...@lomaxdesign.com>
An: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com
Gesendet: 18:34 Donnerstag, 5.April 2012
Betreff: RE: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation
>And I still have seen no expanation, anywhere, of the basic
problems with W-L theory.
Abd ul.
Do you know this:
"A short rebuttal to the proponents and protagonists of Widom Larson Theory"
by "goatguy"
Here:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/02/short-rebuttal-to-proponents-and.html
He is generally very skeptic wrt LENR, but he is tough, witty and
mostly up to the point.
Guenter
