-----Original Message----- ... he [Admiral Steidle] could be referring to something else instead of LENR and ... it is remotely possible that he is referring to another kind of nanotube technology which does not involve LENR, or ZPE - but seriously - what would that be?
OK. Let me clarify that rhetorical question, since the Admiral did mention "nuclear" but not LENR per se, and there is a third or hybrid possibility. Actually there is a fourth possibility too. For two decades there has been the question of a hybrid of LENR and hot fusion, which could mean something like LENR with uranium or thorium. There are papers on the LENR-CANR site relative to this with actual experiments. Curiously, the thorium version seems to be endothermic. Presumably much of the interior heat of Earth could be provided this way a hybrid LENR reaction with a heavy metal - assuming that there is "neutron-less" fission which could happen with a non-fissile isotope (U-238) via LENR and a proton which looks like a neutron (virtual neutron). This is old hat. As fate would have it, this concept turned up on Rossi's blog yesterday... under the guise of the a putative new physics called "tresino" physics. LOL. But to cut through the crap, this is little more a blatant theft of Randell Mills theory and is twenty years old. Exactly like Mills' "hydrino hydride" (tm) - the so-called tresino has a net negative charge and is quite small (thousands of time smaller than the hydrogen atom by volume). On vortex, we have been calling this species f/H or fractional hydrogen, since Mills has trademarked the name "hydrino". Other names are dense hydrogen, DDL hydrogen, IRH (inverted Rydberg hydrogen) hydrogen clusters etc. The ion may be stable or not, depending on which theory is employed since it is not proved. The ion would stable as a negatively charged ion under Mills theory. It could possibly interact with a heavy metal but the more interesting thing, by far, is the 3 proton reaction. P+(f/H-)+P = ? ANSWER: A version of the trihydrogen cation is the result and it is far from rare. This species is also known as protonated molecular hydrogen or H3+, and it is the most abundant or second most abundant ion in the Universe, so it is very common. On Earth it seems to be rare, but possibly not in condensed matter. H3+ is stable in the interstellar medium, which is a place that anions are not as stable as cations - due to the low temperature and low density of interstellar space. In condensed matter it would be stable due to lots of valence electrons spreading and hiding the net positive charge. "The role that H3+ plays in the gas-phase chemistry of the Interstellar Medium is unparalleled by any other molecular ion." Wiki quote. In short, for LENR - using the H2- anion as Mills claims is possible, but this cation could be the real basis of the reversible fusion reaction, which has been promoted here by me in the past as RPF - the diproton reaction. But instead of that particular diproton route, the molecular isomer H3+ would proceed with higher probability in condensed matter (most likely). It would still be RPF with the consecutive Lamb Shift energy anomaly, happening at THz frequencies, but the cation never splits apart - it just hums along, dumping excess proton mass. This continues until that mass is converted to energy (7 parts per million of extra mass or ~7keV per proton). Jones
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