Lutz Jaitner - plasmoid research and LENR

That's the plan. I have a few ideas I want to try out - this will be very much an open science affair, we all need entertaining as well as educating, and to be honest contributions would be very welcome.

Here's a couple of very comprehensive, relevant (and elegant) papers on particle emission from low pressure Glow Discharge in mixed gas atmospheres.

Storms, E. and B. Scanlan. Detection of Radiation Emitted from LENR.

ICCF-14 International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science. 2008. Washington, DC.

ABSTRACT

A study was made to detect X-radiation and energetic particle emission from nuclear reactions

that may be initiated during low-voltage gas discharge in deuterium. Evidence is presented for

X-radiation having an energy nearly equal to the voltage applied to the discharge and energetic

particle emission similar to deuterons having energy with peaks between 0.5 and 3 MeV. A study

of radiation emitted from materials exposed to deuterium gas is presented in part 2.

Storms GD 1.pdf

Storms GD 2.pdf

I also like this - the electric sun model are related to what we see in artificial plasmas.

I asked Ed Storms a question via email about his GD papers, linked above. I'm sure he won't mind me posting part of his reply.

Ed. Your glow-discharge papers seem to offer a lot of promise, did you develop that work much further? I have yet to search, but it looks such a promising line of investigation I am surprised it is not better known. There have been people working in this field for decades who have never seen a result like that. Alan.

Alan Yes, the results were impressive and I’m still trying to figure out what they mean. Most people are not looking in ways that would allow such behavior to be seen. As is always the case, people see what the equipment allows them to see. And, the choice of equipment is determined by the model being applied. For example, most people looked for neutrons because these were expected based on the models. Unfortunately, the nuclear process does not produce signficant neutrons. Nevertheless, this fact did not influence the models being suggested. Apparently, models, once created, seem to have a life independent of fact. Meanwhile, the behavior I observed is ignored because it does not fit a model. Fact without a model is like a baby without a mother.

While cold fusion may not solve the global warming problem anytime soon, it now produces a vivid case study in how science is actually done in the modern world. Apparently, like religion, science has a long way to go before it can be used to effectively understand Nature. Ed

I am very impressed by the ability of quite a simple sealing mechanism on my bell-jar reactor to hold a good vacuum for hours at a stretch, even with no vacuum grease applied to the silicon rubber gasket that goes between the 25mm thick lexan baseplate and the ground glass ring on the bell jar. The gasket is glued on one side (to the Lexan) with silicon mastic but one the other it is currently a dry joint. Sometimes this old tech is way simpler to set up than sophisticated copper flange systems. The nylon bolts you can see on the baseplate are really just for location, no role in the actual vacuum seal, which is accomplished by the vacuum itself - the area of the Lexan plate exposed to the vacuum on one side is almost 30 in ² - so a sealing pressure of 420 lbs.

The 'wet' silicon mastic bead..............................................and with the 3mm silicon rubber gasket in place....................... And a reminder of how it fits together.

You bet. But I can leave it under vacuum (and warm it up a little) for several days before doing anything serious. Sadly the QMS gas analyzer is at my 'proper lab', so I'm just going to have to take it on trust for a while.

More progress on the plasma reactor today. The electrodes on the insulated copper bus-bars are in place, though the anode is not yet made - anode and cathode are designed to be adjustable and swappable without too much fuss. The (sometimes) flat copper cathode ends up parallel with the bench-top -meaning that powders or anything could be placed upon it. I don't have a spare Baratron vacuum gauge to hand for this, or the budget for one, so having to make do with an old analogue unit.. The third picture shows the stainless steel capillary tube for the gas inlet - using a fine tube like this means that gas flow is more controllable.

Vacuum testing can start in earnest soon.

I have laser goggles. They will do. Not much UV will get through a round 9mm of borosilicate glass and 10mm of polycarbonate.

nickec

Good to see you posting again. I did give some thought to the magnetic drive idea for adjusting the electrodes, but then discovered that the more you think about it the more complicated it becomes, so I decided to stick with a system whereby the whole thing was easy to open, reconfigure and re-seal. TBH I'm still feeling my way here. I guess that you might make a rather flattering comparison with Safire, but Monty Childs would not be happy. He is not interested in replications. The rationale for that is simple. If an independent replication works then his investors (the companies life-blood) will take fright at the idea that the tech in too easy to copy, and if it fails they will be - potentially at least - equally unhappy.