Posted on 11/14/2013 2:42:17 PM PST by Kevmo
UPDATE #3 - Many scientists report Gammas relating to LENR
Since our last major blogpost, we have been inundated with information and pointers with respect to our initial findings of Gammas. Very interestingly, we have been made aware of other researchers work where Gammas have been found and even correlated to excess heat.
First, Peter Mobberley, an affable British scientist from Advanced Energy Technologies, UK, who we had the pleasure of meeting at both ICCF-17 and ICCF-18 reported that he had seen Gammas in his Ni-H experiments. This is the same Peter Mobberley who was due to present the latest research of Francesco Piantelli (the father of Ni-H systems) at ICCF-17 before the latter decided to withdraw on commercial grounds. Peter reported that his research in a poster session at that same conference.
Another follower of the project, Alan Goldwater from California, US (another nice chap) pointed us in the direction of a paper first published November 2012, in the Condensed Matter Nuclear Science (CMNS) group by Edmund Storms and Brian Scanlan of KivaLabs, LLC, Santa Fe, NM. In it they conclude
"Material treated in a manner to produce voids is found to radiate photons [Gamma] when exposed to H2. This radiation is able to activate a nucleus exposed to this radiation, which decays with an average half-life of about 109 min. This photon radiation can be produced using Cr, which is not magnetic, and Ni, which is magnetic after the metals are subjected to stress. Ni also reacts with Cu to form the same type of structure, after which photon radiation is produced when the alloy is exposed to H2"
This is the first work we are aware of that supports Stoyan Sarg's theory that Cr should be as an active LENR feedstock (see previous update).
In addition, they list work by Focardi, Piantelli, Violante, Takahashi, Matsumoto, Bush and Eagleton have all seen emissions of some type from experiments. The paper also says
"Anecdotal experience has been reported by Rossi and Celani, claiming radiation is detected when heat production is first initiated but is much reduced later while extra energy is being made."
This statement is also in line with Stoyan Sarg's previous post.
It also reproduces on page 2. a series of images produced by Piantelli and shown in 2012 where Piantelli also saw Gamma spectra from his NaI(Tl) detector in his Ni+H experiments. The good thing in this paper is that there are a range of energies revealed, so we have a clue where we might be heading - thanks to all of those that did this work!
Please read through Ed's et al. paper here.
Francesco Piantelli has himself just released (11/11/13) a document to support the seeking of funds for small share equity investment in his company NicHenergy where he issues supporting data for his vehicle that includes the graphs in the the above published document. You see document here.
Bob Greenyer got inspired to see if Nickel and Chromium had been used in any other LENR research and came across this paper
Anomalous Heat Generation during Hydrogenation of Carbon (Phenanthrene)
by Tadahiko Mizuno and Shigemi Sawada of the Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan.
In it they use a Inconel, an alloy of principally Nickel and Chromium. Importantly, this is an experiment where they saw excess heat, correlated to Gamma and the alloy Inconel did not stop it but played the role of the reactor housing. They reported
"4.2 Coincidence between gamma emission and heat generation
As shown above, with the Inconel cell we were able to confirm anomalous heat production. Furthermore, we confirmed that gamma-rays were produced while anomalous heat was produced."
Lattice Energy explored this work - you can see the discussion from their point of view on pages 26-48 in the link below.
Lattice Energy Slides
These papers give us a good resource to draw from to make experiments to explore our initial findings more fully. If we can correlate, anti-correlate or show the need for Gammas of a particular energy at a significant level above background to be involved in successful LENR, then we may finally be able to produce our world worldwide independent replication effort.
UPDATE #4 Gamma spectrometer arrives
Great news - the NaI(Tl) scintillator driver and spectrometer arrived.
And the new divider head, built by Steven Sesselmann fitted the photo multiplier perfectly. With a bit of effort from Mathieu the safe high voltage (SHV) IN/OUT was installed. Lovely.
We must thank again the generosity and assistance that we received from Earthtech, Texas.
Now we need to press ahead with the shielding. We had been offered a custom lead casting (if we could pay for the lead), which would have been a tube with a 5cm lead wall thickness as recommended by Celani. However, even though this would minimise the lead needed, it would be around 100kg! Phew...
So the new thought is to use rolls of lead roof flashing. A prominent US government funded scientist advised that we ideally used copper instead of steel as the barrier between the lead shield and the scintillator, however, that needs to be about 5mm and is looking just a tad pricey. Does any of our followers know someone in France that runs a roofing business and can lend Mathieu some lead and copper flashing rolls?
After that, we need to position and properly calibrate the detector, the two papers in the previous blog update are a good starting point, and we think our source has Radium (Madame Curie would be proud) does anyone out there have the perfect 'cook book' recipe for setting it all up - we need to get this right first time, we can not afford to have people tell us we have done it wrong after we have burnt weeks of experiment time! Please, if you can contribute expertise, we need it now.
They don't have eBay or Craigslist in France?..................
I think the key word is “lend”. They don’t want to have to pay for them.
These guys are on a shoestring. If someone already has it, it’s cheaper than getting it on eBay.
Thanks for the update, I was beginning to be really concerned!
No way. Dr. whatshisname said it produced no radiation.
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