Yes, Mizuno's work, according to the recent MIT presentation, is shaping up as a reaction which implies fission of the deuteron, not fusion to higher mass.
This is called "neutron stripping." It was discovered many years ago and is relatively low energy. We have discussed it many times in the past on vortex, before Ni-H became so important. In short - the only known quantum reaction to take deuterium to hydrogen without thermodynamic splitting (2.2 MeV) is called the Oppenheimer-Philips reaction. Wiki has a poor writeup http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer%E2%80%93Phillips_process The problem is - what is happening to all those lost neutrons, even with a polyneutron species? And why does Mizuno's experiment work well with H2 and/or D2 since H2 cannot be stripped? From: alain.coetm...@gmail.com it seems Mizuno measurement show the inverse reaction pep reactions seems to make atomic number grows H.H.H.H->H.D.H->HT->4H~>4He D.D.D.D->D.4H.D~>D.4He.D Mizuno results seems opposite, or maybe an illusion of mass spectrography It seems a good way to understand what happen, but we should differentiate DD/ He4, and HH/D,, and T/DH/He3 Teslaalset: Steve, have a look at a paper of Edmund Storms (recently brought under the attention by Alain via LinkedIn): http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEexplaining.pdf He proposes following processes happening in the reactors of Rossi/Defkalion (using light Hydrogen): d+e+d > 4H (fast decay) > 4He + e Q=~23 MeV d+e+p > 3H (slow decay) > 3He + e Q=~4.9 MeV [22, 23] p+e+p > 2H (stable) Q=~1.4 MeV t+e+p > 4H > 4He + e t+e+d > 5H > 4H + n > 4He + e The Q values give an estimated overall energy release. Something very similar could be the case in Mizuno's latest setup (skipping the 1H to 2H step). On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Steve High <diamondweb...@gmail.com> wrote: Having been at the meeting I would be pleased to add an item of clarification. The input gas was in fact molecular deuterium. An innovation that they made a big deal of at the meeting was a device placed inside the reactor that allowed them to monitor the composition of the circulating gas in real time, in terms of atomic number. Thus at the beginning of the run they were registering atomic number 4 (molecular deuterium) and during the run there was a progressive decline in 4. A transient rise in 3 occurred (they didn't know if it was tritium or possibly Helium 3) then that level declined again. The item that progressively rose during the run was atomic number 2(they didn't know if that was atomic deuterium or molecular hydrogen). Any speculation from the group as to why that might happen? As an matter of coincidence or god forbid synchronicity the output of Fisher's polyneutron theory was molecular hydrogen (IIRC) The opening slide was an image of Japanese gradeschoolers wearing masks for protection from Fukushimas monstrous effluent. Underscore an enhanced willingness on the part of Japanese government and industry to get behind Mizuno's innovation Steve High
