In the document, the word fusion should be replaced with the word “fission” due to coulomb barrier lowering as a direct consequence of Anderson localization of electrons in and near the lattice discontinuities in the metal.
Scale up od the effect can be done using electrostatic amplification actioned by sparks in dense hydrogen gas, nano-second electric pulsed current, and/or alkali based superatom ion clustering. Cheers: Axil On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ed published this description of the paper at CMNS: > > > I'm making a prepublication copy of a new paper available for your > information and comment - sort of a universal peer review.( > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEnatureofen.pdf) It has been submitted > to JCMNS. Unfortunately it is too big for Google to accept. Consequently, > you have to go to LENR.org to download it. the paper is "Nature of > energetic radiation emitted from a metal exposed to H2" by Storms and > Scanlan. Perhaps other people can be encouraged to use this approach when > they submit papers for publication. > > This is an important paper because it uses radiation measurements to > identify when LENR occurs rather than energy production. Because such > radiation can only result from a nuclear reaction and its measurement can > detect a nuclear reaction at a much lower rate than is possible by > measuring energy production, radiation provides an excellent tool for > studying the LENR process. Of course, heat is being produced but a much > larger sample would be required for its detection. > > The LENR process was initiated using a method based on the theory that I > published recently. This is the first example of using a theory to produce > a predicted result using a predicted method. We found that when several > materials are subjected to conditions expected and found to produce voids, > and then exposed to H2, a source of radiation results that is consistent > with the radiation reported by previous workers. In addition, this > radiation has strange effects on other materials, which is a new discovery. > > We are making these results available at an early stage in our studies to > alert people to the possible benefit of observing radiation. I expect many > questions and objections will result. Nevertheless, people need to be > encouraged to duplicate the work to determine if it is correct or not. > > I'm in the process of determining the exact treatment required to make the > effect occur every time. Although I produced 4 samples that work, many did > not. I now know the reason. This method is ok as a way to study the > effect but it is not useful to scale up to produce a commercial source of > energy. However, it gives support to my theory and provides a good method > to demonstrate LENR. The nature of the radiation also provides useful > insight into the mechanism. > > Your comments would be welcome.
