Bob, Because Dr. Bae was aligned with the amazing Winterberg, and has significant funding, we had hoped that he would have something big to show by now.
But this class of chemical reactions points the way to many unexplainable phenomena in LENR, where the reaction "looks like chemistry" except there is gain above redox chemistry. The gain seems to max out at about 10x[redox] but the idea of Winterberg/Bae is (or was) that you use this gain and bootstrap it to hot fusion for much greater gain. Sounds good on paper but it cannot be aneutronic. However, the recent LM small footprint reactor would be an ideal way to use this hybrid. It makes much more sense than tritium. I see that you found the website. I will to have a new look at it -----Original Message----- From: Robert Ellefson Dear Vortex-l, I found these papers from Young K. Bae, published recently in Physics Letters A and Results in Physics, to be of tremendous interest and potential relevance to the phenomena we are witnessing in the E-Cat and possibly other LENR reactions. (I note that these whole papers can be downloaded without charge currently) MIMS-III, Oct2014: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0375960114009256 MIMS-II, Sept2014: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211379714000515 MIMS, July2008: http://ykbcorp.com/downloads/MIMS%20PLA17931.pdf Note that he is claiming to prove that innershell molecular states, (a neo-fusion state, if you will) can exist between *any* two elements! Although his work is based on high-kinetics shock-induced reactions, I find the behaviors listed for this class of reactions (MIMS), notably the anomalous thermal behavior, to be of particular interest in light of observed cold fusion reactions. Thanks for the tip-off, Jones Beene. Your mention of ballotechnic reactions caught my eye because of the thermal behavior you mentioned, but searches for that only seemed to land me in conspiracy pages, NSA honeypots, and spy-fiction references, until I found yet another posting from Jones Beene on vortex in 2009 that cross-referenced the new name for this class of reactions (MIMS:ballotechnics::LENR:cold fusion). Then I found this latest set of papers, and my buzzword-matching Bayesian filter output pegged at 11+! Although I do (yet) not have any references to indicate that this type of reaction is known to be capable of occurring in the conditions of the reactors we are working with, given the scarcely-explored nano-scale nature of plasmonics interactions, it doesn't seem too far of a stretch that we could be seeing this type of reaction occurring in cold fusion systems. The works of Hagelstein, Violante, Vysotskii, and Karabut immediately leap to mind here, but I have not yet read their works in enough detail to know what level of correlation their investigations have already uncovered between MIMS and cold fusion. While reading Mats Lewan's book, his mention of Rossi's repeated musings on the hammer-and-anvil theme stood out. Although the notion of fusion naturally correlates to a hammer-and-anvil theme, something suggests to me that perhaps Rossi was musing on shock-induced reactions such as MIMS in particular. I'll note that the important 2008 paper was published around the time that Rossi was first developing the E-Cat technology. There is a nifty animation of a MIMS reaction recently put out by Bae on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbdESIKd56U The author's web pages: http://ykbcorp.com/ I hope this inspires productive thinking! -Bob Ellefson