RE: [Vo]:Dilute D2O Cold Neutron Capture In Papp Engine?

[Jones Beene]

 

 

From: Edmund Storms 

 

Jim, why assume the neutron is stripped from the D? This requires 1.7
MeV/event. 

 

 

No it doesn't - that number is way off - 3 orders of magnitude off. 

 

Neutron stripping occurs as low as 10 keV. See Tom Ligon's IE article.

 

The Farnsworth Fusor is documented proof of large neutron production at keV
energy levels. 

 

Here is another version of Ligon's article. One can argue the point of
whether this is due to Boltzmann's tail of the energy distribution or
Oppenheimer-Philips stripping, but one must accept that it is far removed
from 1.7 MeV/event.

 

http://www.fusor.net/newbie/files/Ligon-QED-IE.pdf

 

Jones