“Energy Revolution Close”: Swedish Business Magazine on Leif Holmlid’s Muon Fusion

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“The researchers fired a laser at ultra-dense heavy hydrogen, deuterium, which led to the quantities of particles at high energy being formed, that is a nuclear fusion occurred. Instead of neutrons formed, which the researchers had expected, was formed muons. Muons are much less dangerous than neutrons that can cause severe radiation injuries, said Ny Teknik”

Holmlid is putting the cart before the horse. First the muons are formed from a reaction between the laser light and the Rydberg matter. Then the muons are producing the fusion of hydrogen.

Muons are not a product of fusion. Unlike what happens in the Rossi reaction, the energy from the fusion reaction is imparted to the Rydberg matter and the Rydberg matter is blown apart. The energized fragments and electrons are sent in all directions whereupon they are thermalized in the copper shield. Note that no gamma rays are produced by this thermalization. This marks what is going on as cold fusion.

The laser light activayes the reaction and not the fusion process. There is no positive feed back in the fusion process so a fusion based chain reaction will not occur.

The output of this reaction is proportional to the speed of Rydberg matter production supplied by the catalyst. Holmlid might have some problems with this as a reaction limiting factor in repetitive laser shots.

This process by Holmlid is almost identical to how DGT engineered their reaction. The difference between the two is that DGT used a high voltage arc to produce the fusion reaction. Holmlid would be well served to use a high voltage arc also. It is easier to engineer a reactor that way.

It is now becoming apparent when comparing different LENR approaches, the way nuclear energy is transferred inside a LENR reactor is important to how the reactor functions in terms of the reaction cycle.