At 08:22 AM 4/26/2012, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
At 05:34 PM 4/25/2012, Akira Shirakawa wrote:
http://mizzouweekly.missouri.edu/archive/2012/33-28/reactor/index.php
What's missing from the article is any clue as to what, exactly,
they will be investigating about "cold fusion" or LENR using a
cyclotron and deuteron bombardment of palladium. There are certain
lines of research that have been suggested that might be involved.
But they are not, or are not clearly, direct investigation of the
reactions, as implied by the article. They could, for example, be
looking for the velocity distribution of deuterons in PdD, or
investigating fusion cross-section in the low energy range and under
confinement (Takahashi developed his theory from evidence from such
bombardment, finding evidence for multibody reactions at 10^26 more
frequently than naive expectation under plasma conditions).
Or they might be looking for evidence of gamma screening from
Widom-Larsen's "heavy electron patches."
Or using "Ion implant" techniques (very common in Semiconductor
processes) to get a very controlled loading.
