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only respects innovation. (Satya Nadella)
GAPINGVOID –today
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” ( Galileo Galilei)
Yesterday Rossi has shown his attachment to mainstream physics- see below and also yestrday it was published the promised theory paper, co-authored with professor Norman D Cook. The professor will be at ICCF-19 with the poster:
Cook
On the Importance of Nuclear Structure Theory for Understanding the E-CAT
I remember Rossi has given a list of his favorite physics books and Norman D. Cooks is the first.
Professor Cook is an original thinker see for example:
http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/534
I am for fastness in action, so I will abstain from making theory of theory, of repeating that he primum non nocere principle, I will not analyse what does it solve, how it helps the development, I will let others whining about peer review and I publish this news as they are. Read the paper, my friends.
On the Nuclear Mechanisms Underlying the Heat Production by the “E-Cat” Norman D. Cook1 and Andrea Rossi2
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1504/1504.01261.pdf
1. Department of Informatics, Kansai University, Osaka, 1095-569, Japan
2. Leonardo Corporation, Miami Beach, Florida, 33139, USA We discuss the isotopic abundances found in the E-Cat reactor with regard to the nuclear mechanisms responsible for “excess” heat. We argue that a major source of energy is a reaction between the first excited-state of 7 Li4 and a proton, followed by the breakdown of 8 Be4 into two alphas with high kinetic energy, but without gamma radiation. The unusual property of the 7 Li4 isotope that allows this reaction is similar to the property that underlies the Mössbauer effect: the presence of unusually low-lying excited states in stable, odd-Z and/or odd-N nuclei. We use the lattice version of the independent-particle model (IPM) of nuclear theory to show how the geometrical structure of isotopes indicate nuclear reactions that are not predicted in the conventional version of the IPM. Finally, we speculate on similar mechanisms that may be involved in other low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR).
Rossi on Mainstream Physics and the LENR Community http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/04/06/rossi-on-mainstream-physics-and-the-lenr-community/
Andrea Rossi
April 6th, 2015 at 8:46 AM
DTravchenko:
First and foremost, many scientists of the “mainstream” Physics community are approaching LENR unbiased after the enormous work that has been done in the last four years, mainly by me and my Team ( honestly and sincerely, without hypocrisy). For example, all the Professors that made the ITP Lugano Report belong to the mainstream as well as the scientists of NASA, Airbus, Lockeed Martin, Boeing, DOE, DOD, MIT, etc. etc, etc that started at various levels a serious R&D program on LENR. This said, the so called LENR community did its best to transform itself into a sect in a ghetto, writing a lot of stupidities ( think to the electron capture saga) among some very good paper ( Mizuno, Ikegami, etc). Most of all, what made ghettized the so called LENR community is the attitude to write a lot, talk a lot vociferate the most, working and studying as less as possible and over all not spend their own money to make R&D, but only search for money of others ( which shows that they are the first not to believe to what they say; I do not know of any of them who sold his house to finance themselves, as i did). I calculated in 1:100 the mean ratio between pages of Physics studied and pages of Physics written by most of the wannabe scientist self defined “nuclear physicists” inside the so called “LENR” community. As my friend Sergio Focardi said many times: ” The problem is that they are searching for new physics without studying the existing physics before”.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Energy 2.0 Society to Give Public Talks on LENR
http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/04/07/energy-2-0-society-to-hold-public-talks-on-lenr/
OTHER
DTravchenko:
First and foremost, many scientists of the “mainstream” Physics community are approaching LENR unbiased after the enormous work that has been done in the last four years, mainly by me and my Team ( honestly and sincerely, without hypocrisy). For example, all the Professors that made the ITP Lugano Report belong to the mainstream as well as the scientists of NASA, Airbus, Lockeed Martin, Boeing, DOE, DOD, MIT, etc. etc, etc that started at various levels a serious R&D program on LENR. This said, the so called LENR community did its best to transform itself into a sect in a ghetto, writing a lot of stupidities ( think to the electron capture saga) among some very good paper ( Mizuno, Ikegami, etc). Most of all, what made ghettized the so called LENR community is the attitude to write a lot, talk a lot vociferate the most, working and studying as less as possible and over all not spend their own money to make R&D, but only search for money of others ( which shows that they are the first not to believe to what they say; I do not know of any of them who sold his house to finance themselves, as i did). I calculated in 1:100 the mean ratio between pages of Physics studied and pages of Physics written by most of the wannabe scientist self defined “nuclear physicists” inside the so called “LENR” community. As my friend Sergio Focardi said many times: ” The problem is that they are searching for new physics without studying the existing physics before”.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Energy 2.0 Society to Give Public Talks on LENR
http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/04/07/energy-2-0-society-to-hold-public-talks-on-lenr/
- Talk: At the moment the most promising forms of LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions some times incorrectly referred to as Cold Fusion) are those that are able to operate using nickel and hydrogen — both plentiful and inexpensive natural resources. In LENR reactions no pollutants or emissions are produced, neither are harmful radiation or radioactive waste. This makes LENR a clean and sustainable form of energy. We are in the very early days of research and development in this field, and much about this phenomenon is poorly understood. There are competing theories proposed that try to describe the exact mechanism by which this anomalous heat is generated, but none has as yet been accepted as authoritative. There are many researchers and companies studying LENR at the moment, and it appears that we are on the verge of seeing commercial-grade LENR reactors appear in the marketplace. Ultimately LENR has the potential to revolutionize the way that energy is produced — cleanly and less expensively than current energy sources, and from elements that are cheap and abundant — making it a truly ‘2.0’ technology that we feel should be promoted for the benefit of humanity.
OTHER
Like so many LENR theories, the Cook theory of the LENR reaction is not fundamental. Like almost all other LENR theories, it deals with the emergent results of the fundamental LENR reaction without explaining the cause of the observed experimental results.
ReplyDeleteIf a theory cannot explain EVERY aspect of the experimental results in every dimension, it is not valid.
In particular, the way energy of these high powered alpha particles are converted to heat is not addressed, even though that part of the LENR theory is central to how the energy of the nuclear reaction is converted to soft x-rays and extreme ultraviolet light.
I have concluded from the experimental results derived from many LENR systems that the gamma suppression and the basic LENR nuclear reaction is tightly coupled together so that if a LENR based nuclear event occurs, no gamma is ever seen in a environment that has gotten hot enough (500C).
Gamma suppression is an essential part of the LENR reaction. So Gamma suppression is an essential part of what is going on inside the Nuclear Active Environment. If energy is carried away from the NAE, it cannot be converted to its final moderated form (soft x-rays and extreme ultraviolet light.) by the LENR reaction.
Cook says that high energy alpha particles exit the NAE at high energy and deliver their energy to the far field at an some indeterminate distance from the NAE that produced the energy. If this were true, there is always a slight chance that the alpha particle could exit the gas envelop and deposit its kinetic energy in the Alumina shell where a gamma ray would result. This gamma ray is never seen. So if an alpha particle is produced it must have little or no kinetic energy that is transferred to the far field.
All the energy of the nuclear reaction is carried away from the NAE by the LENR reaction itself. The gamma emission or better said, the lack of gamma emissions, is an intrinsic part of the LENR reaction energy transfer mechanism.