On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:00 PM, David Roberson <dlrober...@aol.com> wrote:
> Kevin, I think that what Dr. Storms is stating about the dangerous > radiation emission is valid. In your scenario, the balloon is surrounded > by many others that absorb the high energy emissions. How does it account > for balloons that are very near to the edge of the bundle? ***Good point. In the formation of BECs, the atoms near the edge would be less likely to participate in the formation because they aren't subject to the same level of forces jostling them around as the guys in the middle are. An analogy would be when a crowd gets too dense and people start getting trampled. If a dense crowd were to happen on an open field, the people on the edges would not be subject to the same level of forces jostling them around & restricting their freedom of movement, it would be the people in the middle most subject to risk of trampling. > If high level energy is released by any LENR activity, then it would be > expected to escape unless a process exists that works well over an > extremely short distance. Also, I an unaware of any process that is > effective in stopping free energetic neutrons under similar conditions. > ***Going back to the balloon analogy, when 50,000 of them pop at once there is simply more energy released and less matter to block the releases. If only 1 of those non-tinker-toy-lattice balloons popped, you probably wouldn't hear it. I think Hot fusion takes place on a bigger level than cold fusion, that cold fusion has 1 nuclear event for every billion atoms or so, whereas hot fusion has perhaps 50,000 times as much. In addition, when you look at a balloon popping in slow motion, it does not initially emit its energy in all directions at the first microsecond. Its release of energy goes in the direction that the penetration came from initially. If the balloon pop were due to 2 balloons banging together forcefully, the initial release would be right where the 2 balloons collided. Similarly, when 2 atoms collide and fuse, I think their energy release is not 360 degrees, but is perpendicular to the direction of the plane where the 2 atoms meet. It is initially in only 1 direction, not all directions. That release of energy will have a high degree of probability due to its geometry of initial direction, to be directly in the path of atoms on the lattice. But in hot fusion, those 50,000 balloons all slam into each other at varying different angles, leaving the impression that the initial energy release is initially 360 degrees rather than in one direction. I do not know how to test this idea. I doubt there are resources to measure direction of energy release of individual atoms fusing.
