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I think he developed an improved space heater for his factory out of junk. It worked in a surprisingly efficient way. It probably set off his geiger counter every now and then too ~ that's why all vendors or processors of junk commodities, whether oil, crunched cars, etc. have them around. Every now and then you get a dose of irradiated stuff!

Now, do these processes take place internally?

Well, we have the THORIUM DECAY thesis where deeply buried thorium is supposed to be heating the Earth's interior.

It's just a thesis ~ with little evidence other than the finding that Earth's interior is hot.

So, why not LENR heating?

Frankly, I'm wondering if the things we see as UFOs aren't just flying LENR processes underway in bodies of gas belched out of the oceans, or volcanos, or maybe fissures.

You might look into the makeup of mantle plumes. Hot little suckers. We don't really know why they can continue being hot all the way to the top.

‘’Well, we have the THORIUM DECAY thesis where deeply buried thorium is supposed to be heating the Earth’s interior.’’

You seem ignorant of the science of geology. Thorium played little role in the geology story of the Earth’s core.

The story of the discovery of radioactivity starts with - of all things - Darwin’s book: On the origin of Species (published in 1859). Darwin understood that evolution takes a very long time and he needed to support the evolution theory by showing that Earth is old enough to bring about life and evolution. Darwin assumed an erosion rate of an inch a century, and then extrapolated that some 300 million years were apparently necessary to explain the total amount of erosion that had occurred.

In 1862, Lord Kelvin published his analysis in a paper titled On the Secular Cooling of the Earth. He arrived at a best estimate for the age of the Earth of 100 million years.
Essentially, Lord Kelvin stated that if Earth is more than 100 milliion years old, there would be no volcanic activity (tidal forces would be unsufficient) and the planet would be totally solid to the core.

The Christian Fundamentalists were in an uproar against Darwin and held up Lord Kelvin’s study to show that Darwin is incorrect. However, the sedimentation record of the Grand Canyon implies that Earth is at least 2 billion years old. Other studies concluded that Earth is much younger than 1 billion years old. It came to the point that Lord Kelvin stated that if one can discover an unknown - at that time - source of energy then he will acknowledge that his models were false.

Then in 1896, Henri Becquerel accidentally discovered radioactivity.