I have seen an interesting blog about LENR theory
http://sjbyrnes.com/cf/?p=713#comment-11243
QuoteI’ve mentioned before (here and here) one of the main challenges of explaining cold fusion. In conventional nuclear fusion, nuclear energy is transformed into the kinetic energy of a few (usually 2 or 3) very-fast-moving particles. But if cold fusion is a real thing, then the nuclear energy would seem to be transformed into something else. The reason we know this is, very-fast-moving particles create radiation (I mean neutrons, gamma-rays, etc.), and people have looked for it and found that there is very little of it (see here). For example, some people have been doing cold fusion experiments for many years, without dying of radiation poisoning. Well, I mean, I’m not an expert, but they don’t look dead. So, this is themystery of the missing radiation. The mystery has been approached in sensible ways and in nonsense ways, and in this post I’ll give some examples of both. Edmund Storms’s “hydroton theory” will be my nonsense example.
I have reacted to his critic of Hydroton, even if probably we agree much...
QuoteDisplay MoreWhay I take of edmund storms is not his final theory, as it is not his job.
his great approach detaile in his lates books is
1- list the experimental resulst, the transmutation observed (Iwamura and the even number of deuterons, tritium, gamma measurement, no neutrons)
2- consider the laws of physics thay may interfere with typical families of theory... thermodynamic laws prevent concentation of energy in a lattice or on a surface, neutrons get thermalized even if slow, conservation of momentum may require a gamma in some interaction...
3- after having identified the theory which violate laws of physicist, he establish what can be the theory that work ...
his conclusion are very clear and hard to attack:
- the reaction does not produce free neutron as they would thermalize, even just 1ppb will be too much for the observation. it is aneutronic
- the reaction does not happen inside the normal lattice, the normal surface. it happen in an insulated zone, independent from the chemistry environment, very different from the clean material, the NAE
- an object inside the NAE is able to swallow huge energy and to distribute it in smaller quanta, below the gamma range.
in his book
http://lenrexplained.com/
he gaves more detail on his vision of iwamura observation, when an heavy atom get to absorb pairs of deuterons.
after a glass of wine (I'm a weak drinker, a spoon make me balistic) i have though about a theory for Li6, He4, D synthesis from H, and of iwamura
my vision is first an hydroton, 1D object and p-e-p fusion. my naive vision is that the electron are restricted to polar lobes 1/2 left and 1/2 right...
as ed says sometime the 2 lobes and 2 nucleus can merge...
the key for me is geometric. the reaction have to keep null momentum to avoid gamma.
for me the key to lenr is geometry
now trying t explain how 6p could became li6 I imagine that there was a 3D carefour of 3 hydroton with a vacancy in the middle having 6 electronic half-e lobes... for some unclear reason they may fuse and I imagine it is exothermal.
with a 2D variant I obtaine He4
if you put an heavy target in the middle you obtaine with 1D/2D/3D variant the iwamura transmutation...
3D reaction seems crazy for me and that is a huge weakness of my toy model...
anyway 1/2/3 pay of deuteron , plus Li6 with H, plus the fact that no gamma, no neutron, no positron is emited, push me in that direction...
I am probably wrong, like ed storms in details, but I am convinced that geometry, CoM, aneutronicity, iwamura, are the keys...
NAE, coherence, anutronicity, are for me the key not to propose a new physics. I don't like new physics. material science is enough complicated to allow LENR, no need to call aliens.
I just read too quickly and this guy read the book...
I should not advised him to read it... but sure you may be interested.