Thanks for posting this, Jones. It reminds me of an earlier post on Vortex that was a compilation of LENR theories but I cannot find it with the search engine nor even with google. So I'll need to circle back on this item to comment on it because I intended to contrast your post to the earlier post.
At any rate, I do not find the V1DLLBEC theory up there. Basically it's my theory that 1D BECs could form at much higher temperatures than expected and generate fusion events. As far as the 2nd miracle of where those fusion events are dissipated into the lattice, one would have to pursue my analogy about balloons within a matrix of tinker toys. When they pop, would you hear them? When a matrix of a few million balloons is generated, and a bullet is fired through it, would you be able to hear it? No, because the output energy would be absorbed into the matrix. On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > Below can be found at least 12 viable and distinct hypotheses for LENR > gain. > Given that some of the listings represent slight variations or enabler > mechanisms there are more than a dozen entries (16). All are related in > some > way to hydrogen which is constrained in a lattice, and many require QM > tunneling. > > The range of these, and the generally strong evidence for each are almost > conclusive evidence for me that LENR cannot be reduced to a "single" > reaction, nor even two - one for deuterium and one for protium. QM > tunneling > is complex. > > But the most controversial suggestion of all is that none of these are > mutually exclusive, and several, or even most of them, could be at work > simultaneously in any given experiment, if that reactor has all the > necessary components. > > There is not even a good candidate for "most likely" unless the reaction > involves only a limited range of options, such as palladium and deuterium > which only produces helium-4 as ash. > > I am now dropping the attribution - since earlier there were numerous > overlooked contributors, like Mitchell Swartz who were not credited but who > are still fighting the USPTO for basic priority. > > 1) The original theory of P&F applicable to palladium and deuterium, > involving gammaless fusion to helium caused by coherent electron effects > (screening) > > 2) Coulomb mediated reactions in general, including the deflation > fusion model. When any one channel is highly favored, such as tritium or > He-3, then there will be another separate distinguishable reaction at play, > and it often involves an alloy or dopant to the lattice or to an > electrolyte. Thus it is distinctly unique, and not a channel reaction. > > 3) The "hydrino" (or fractional hydrogen) mechanism. Several > variations > now exist. The species may be a predecessor step for LENR and may actually > provide no excess heat unless it does proceed to a nuclear reaction. > > 4) The dense hydrogen cluster or dense deuterium model, differentiated > as inverted Rydberg hydrogen or a DDL (deep Dirac layer). The DDL can be > applicable to deuterium and it can result in something completely different > from 1 and 2, such as heat only with no ash. > > 5) The P-e-P mechanism for Ni-H, which envisions protons fusing to > deuterium via screening at much higher probability than in the solar model > > 6) The NASA filing (US 20110255645) suggests an alternative method for > producing "heavy electrons" as a fusion catalyst in what looks like a beta > decay mechanism. This is similar to 2, 5 and 8 > > 7) The proposal of a high temperature BEC - Bose Einstein Condensate > and/or the tetrahedral TSC model which is similar. > > 8) The beta decay/ ultracold neutron mechanism popularized by > Widom-Larsen which is similar to a Brillouin/ NASA explanation. > > 9) Proton addition - to the metal lattice atoms, which was the > original > Focardi/Rossi conception. Rossi later refined this to emphasize only the > heavier nickel isotopes, especially Ni-62 but gammaless. > > 10) Piantelli has a version of Ni-H with gammas and transmutation. > > 11) SPP or surface plasmon polariton catalysis in general - which is a > theory involving plasmons, phonons and photons. This is more of an > "enabler" > pathway for several types of reactions. > > 12) Casimir dynamics, in general, including a dynamical effect, called > DCE. This is an "enabler" pathway, as are other geometry constraints. > > 13) Accelerated nuclear decay. Some experiments benefit from unstable > isotopes like potassium-40 which can undergo accelerated decay rates, > > 14) RPF or reversible proton fusion, which is based on the strong > force, > QCD and a transient state called the diproton, deriving energy from excess > proton mass with no gammas. > > 15) The "nanomagnetism" formative theory involving magnons and cyclical > phase change around the Curie point of Ni. This may be nonnuclear (ZPE > related). > > 16) Any combination or permutation of the above - since none of them is > mutually exclusive, and most actual experiments cannot be defined by a > single hypothesis, adding to the confusion. > > There are more, especially variations and refinements. Pardon me if I have > overlooked your favorite, but this is a running effort and your favorite > may > appear on the next list. > > >
