Posted on 11/26/2013 2:38:27 PM PST by Kevmo
“Cold Nuclear Fusion” at RASA
Edward Tsyganov of Cold Fusion Power
Edward Tsyganov of Cold Fusion Power, International and OSNovation Systems, Inc. presents Cold Nuclear Fusion at RASA. Edward Tsyganov forwards a report Cold Nuclear Fusion on his research presented at the Russian-speaking Academic Science Association (RASA) meeting held 8-10 November 2013, Clearwater Beach, FL.
RASA: Cold Nuclear Fusion presentation .pdf slides [5.5M]
Currently, humanity has reached a stage of development at which the struggle for energy resources is particularly important, because all the known sources of energy in the near future will not be able to provide our needs. Chemical energy, in addition, is limited on account of the so-called greenhouse effect. Nuclear energy is based on the use of fissile materials, and is not a solution, because the stock of these materials is limited. The initial optimistic expectation of the transition to the process of controlled nuclear fusion has not yet materialized. Technical difficulties in obtaining sustainable superhot plasma and the damaging effects of the enormous neutron flux arising as a result of fusion reactions back down the solution to this problem on a more distant and uncertain future.
Recently there was the belief that the problem of controlled nuclear fusion could be solved in a completely different way. It has been shown experimentally that the cross-barrier synthetic processes depend greatly on the physical state of the matter that reactive atoms are placed in. Distance convergence of two deuterium nuclei through the mechanism of the Rydberg crystal cell in metals occurs by an order of magnitude smaller than the size of a free atom of deuterium. Coulomb barrier permeability in this DD fusion process increases greatly (by the 50–60 orders of magnitude) as compared with a permeability barrier to free molecules of deuterium. In this recent work, we discuss the possibility of detecting the “cold” DD fusion process experimentally by detecting low-energy electrons resulting from the fusion reaction of two deuterons in palladium crystals with very small (thermal) excitation energies of the intermediate compound nucleus 4He*. This process is made possible by the exchange of the excited compound nucleus with electrons of the crystal lattice that results from virtual photons.
It happens historically that the process of DD cold fusion was studied in more detail than other, similar processes. In this regard, we have restricted ourselves to this particular process. Presented below is a summary report of the situation that has now developed, in a cold DD fusion.
Accelerator experiments have shown that the value of screening potential for the impurity atoms in metallic crystals reaches up to 300 eV or even more. This means that, during DD reaction occurring in the medium of the metal crystal, impurity atoms are excited, and deuterium has not circular but elliptical electron orbits, which are oriented relative to each other a certain crystallographic manner. In this case, the nuclei of these atoms can approach each other by a distance substantially less than the size of the unexcited atom, yet still without Coulomb repulsion. Such processes are known in the art and are the cause of chemical catalysis. The processes were first quantitatively described by Johannes Rydberg in 1888.
Thus:
1. The existence of the phenomenon of cold fusion is now conclusively proved by experiments, including experiments on low-energy accelerators.
2. The observed absence of nuclear products for cold fusion can be explained by the decay of a compound nucleus 4He* slowing through nuclear channels as its excitation decreases in energy. The release of energy in this connection is mediated by virtual photons.
3. Prejudice of many nuclear experts to the phenomenon of cold fusion is due to the unusual nature of the nuclear process, in which cold fusion forms an intermediate compound nucleus 4He* in a metastable state.
4. The accumulated empirical rules of nuclear physics seem indisputable to the nuclear community, while the range of their application is merely limited. –E.N. Tsyganov
English version of the RASA 2013 report is here: RASA: Cold Nuclear Fusion
Russian version of the report is here: http://rasa-usa.org/?q=node/19115
and here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hliboxtbwznmshl/sjst5lSIQ2
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Yay cold virtual photons.
Beats the hell out if those hot photons in August.
What’s a “virtual” photon? Is it a photon or not? It sounds like it’s a computer model not a reality.
In physics, “virtual” means something more akin to “transient”. Virtual particles come and go, unlike “real” particles, which tend to persist.
Very nice, but when is it going to light a light bulb or, better yet, power my flying car?
LOL Did you get that call from Washington, yet?
Yes. They asked for your name & number.
All I can say is that I am skeptical because I desperately want this to work...
Nope. But I think the first thing to do is find the proceedings/papers from ICCF7 and see what's there, and whatever else Google has to offer.
Right now, I'm still wading through the RASA slides .
But it would be absolutely typical if someone had laid out the basis and had his work ignored, and credit given to a later researcher.
The truly incredible datum from the RASA presentation for me thus far is the comment about "..reduction of the effect of the coulombic barrier by fifty to sixty ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE".
The truly incredible datum from the RASA presentation for me thus far is the comment about “..reduction of the effect of the coulombic barrier by fifty to sixty ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE”.
***That reminds me of KP Sinha’s claim to a similar reduction of the Pauli Principle (If I Recall Correctly) by 100 orders of magnitude within condensed matter cells.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2743039/posts?q=1&;page=1
Of course, the anti-LENR crowd regularly waves off 14THOUSAND orders of magnitude without even blushing.
But perhaps this is a good way to get a first-pass assessment of various scientific strategies to theorizing LENR: how many orders of magnitude are being shaved? At this point, Bressani beats KP Sinha by 40 orders of magnitude.
How many more do they need before they can heat a teakettle in 10 minutes?
Actually, the “gentleman” who asked that LENR warm up his teakettle was invited to Hagelstein’s recent demonstration (which lasted 6 months). He declined. He was also handed a paper on LENR results and he refused to even hold it in his hand. Real great scientist, huh? How long until we can get our hot-fusion powered water heater — another 50 years, as per usual?
Nobody got any tea, did they?
But I think the first thing to do is find the proceedings/papers from ICCF7 and see what’s there, and whatever else Google has to offer.
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http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BressaniTnuclearphy.pdf
That’s about as disingenuous as you can get. Hagelstein got plenty of tea. If someone issues a challenge and then refuses to accept the proof that the challenge is flatly proven wrong, then backtracking like you just did is tantamount to lying.
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