You wrote: Eric, I see that you are looking into gamma quenching as a method to > control the dangerous gammas which are expected to be released by the > reactions. >
Yes, unfortunately. It took me a little while to move away from neutron production, so there's still hope that I'll give up on gamma quenching as well at some point. > Do you think that the process is virtually perfect such that there are > essentially no gammas escaping to the outside world? I might accept that > 99.9% of them are taken out by this process but that would still leave many > to be detected outside of the devices. > Ed Storms has estimated that to generate 1 watt of power, a typical output, by way of helium production, you would need on the order of 10^12 reactions per second. (I think this is probably for a 1 cm^3 volume, but I am not sure.) So I would probably need a 99.999999 percent success rate in order for this approach to succeed. The evidence for gammas is quite strong. I recall seeing in one chart for an experiment hundreds of events for each of a number of energies in the gamma range. The main problem is that they are at levels much lower than that that would be expected for 1 watt of power, as mentioned above. But they are significant. Right now I'm wondering whether they arise from secondary reactions or from primary ones. If they only arise from secondary reactions, I don't suppose you would need a mechanism like gamma quenching. But I should also add that it would be surprising if charged electrons and protons moving through a powerful magnetic field (assuming one sometimes arises) did not give off synchrotron radiation, even if all the radiation for the system is to radiate and decrease the energy of the particles. There is still plenty of room for magic. Whether there is gamma quenching or not, somehow you have to get from hydrogen or deuterium plus something else to tritium, which has been observed in small but significant amounts. In my ignorance I am not able to get from p+p or p+D to tritium or helium-3, a decay product of tritium, without electron capture or something even more mysterious. It is perhaps this kind of problem leads Ed Storms to propose a type of slow compacting of protons screened by electrons that are sandwiched between them. I'm finding it easier to come at the LENR problem from the macroscopic thermodynamics of the system than to look at specific reactions. I would not be surprised if we eventually stumbled upon irreducible magic of some kind with regard to reactions. For this reason I have been seeking a process that keeps the gammas from > forming in the reaction at any time. A quantum coupling of some form > between the proton entering the nucleus and many other free ones nearby > might fill the need. The action of my demon discussed earlier suggests > that something of this nature might be active and possible. > I wouldn't be surprised if something like this played out. Robin has warned about the strength of the strong force -- I can only imagine your demon will have its hands full gently easing the proton or neutron into the nucleus. > A thought occurred to me concerning the drop in equivalent resistance that > this thread covers. It would be quite important if the drop were due to a > reverse voltage generated by the LENR mechanism that could be improved in > such a manner as to act as an electric source of energy. How wonderful it > would be if we would be so lucky as to discover an electric source of power > that directly converts LENR activity into DC power with a decent efficiency. > If LENR is the holy grail, direct conversion to electricity is the holy grail of the holy grail. Eric
