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http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MileyGHnucleartra.pdf NUCLEAR TRANSMUTATIONS IN THIN-FILM NICKEL COATINGS UNDERGOING ELECTROLYSIS George H. Miley and James A. Patterson Other key features observed in Fig. 8 and Fig. 9 that must be accounted for by any theory include the “gaps” between high yield products and the high Ag and Cd yields. Ag (and Cd) production is particularly challenging, since *Ag occurs in large quantities but is not favored energetically. Ag’s position, well to the lower binding energy side of Ni, infers an endothermic reaction (negative Q-value), which in turn suggests energy transfer to the reactants must occur to drive the reaction. *(This is analogous to driving negative Q-value reactions by colliding high-energy reactants using accelerated beams. As defined here, Q values are the energy released due to the mass difference between reactants and products, assuming that the reactants enter with zero kinetic or excitation energy.) Consequently, the model must contain a mechanism for energy storage/transfer to reactions involved in high Z element production. A postulated reaction model, RIFEX (Reaction in a Film-Excited CompleX), is under development to satisfy these key characteristics. A major feature of RIFEX is that protons (p) interacting with the host Ni and neighboring isotopes produces a relatively long lived atom-p complex with excitation energies of orders of several MeV. *This allows production of elements such as Ag with Q-value reactions. Seemingly, other products with a negative Q value are produced via fission of compound nuclei. *This model will be presented in detail in a future publication. What kind of transmutation is going on. Heavy elements like Ag On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wrote: > >> >> So if Brian Ahern's anecdotal data are allowed, titanium can yield both >> power and localized cooling (perhaps energy is being fed into the system >> from the power outlet to accomplish this). >> > > I'm all mixed up. There are the ice packs, which absorb heat during a > phase transition from solid to liquid. So (thinking out loud) there need > not be a violation of CoE or the second law of thermodynamics for the > titanium system to cool down, and there is more than one pathway that could > account for this phenomenon. Importantly, there are temperature and heat, > and in the case of ice packs, latent heat, and they need to be > distinguished. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_pack > > The temperature of ice packs decreases because they have a high "enthalpy > of fusion" (not to be confused with nuclear fusion). But there is still > energy (heat) going into the system, causing the overall energy to increase. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy_of_fusion > > According to the second article, most substances have a positive enthalpy > of fusion, while 3He and 4He have negative enthalpies of fusion at low > temperatures. This means they freeze rather than melt with the addition of > heat. > > Eric > >
