Robin, the amount of tritium produced is sensitive to the D/H ratio,
increasing to a maximum rate as the ratio approaches 1. The maximum
rate does not occur when the ratio is exactly unity in the gas because
the reaction is controlled by the ratio in the NAE. The ratio in the
NAE is unknown, but crudely related to the ratio in the gas, a
behavior that has been observed. Therefore, D and H are both
reactants for the production of tritium. However, tritium does not
result when H+D fuse. To get tritium rather than He3, an electron has
to be added. This is why He3 is not detected while tritium is.
Of course, a clever person can find complicated ways to avoid this
conclusion, but the simplest conclusion is that tritium results from D
+H+e fusion.
If this is the way tritium forms, than H+H+e will produce deuterium.
I'm waiting for this measurement to be made while heat is produced in
the Ni+H2 system. If deuterium is found to be correlated with the
heat, the expectation of electron capture will be confirmed. Until
then, people can believe whatever they want. Apparently they want to
believe the heat results from transmutation. This conflict will only
be resolved if someone who can make heat using Ni+H2 looks for
deuterium rather than transmutation products. Hopefully, someone
will make the measurement.
Cheers,
Ed Storms
On May 27, 2013, at 3:41 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote:
In reply to Edmund Storms's message of Mon, 27 May 2013 06:58:29
-0600:
Hi Ed,
[snip]
It apparently
results from D+H+e fusion, which was proposed as early as 1996 based
on the effect of the D/H ratio.
Could you explain how the effect of D/H ratio proves that this is
the mechanism?
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
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