Posted on 10/20/2021 4:03:30 PM PDT by Kevmo
Conventional Fusion in an Unconventional Place
#Lawrence P. Forsley1 , Pamela A. Mosier-Boss1 1
Global Energy Corporation, United States E-mail: lawrence.p.forsley@nasa.gov
Although hot fusion research began 70+ years ago, great technical difficulties exist in bringing fusion to commercial fruition. Consequently, there is a need for alternative approaches other than thermonuclear D-T fusion[1]. These approaches range from beam and muon-catalyzed fusion (with unlikely energy gain), to proton boron-11 fusion [2] (with high bremsstrahlung energy losses), to the less understood condensed matter nuclear reactions aka Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR).
This talk will contrast the hot fusion triple-product[4] with the condensed matter nuclear science alternatives. Notably, both high and low energy fusion research need better modeling that experimental data synergistically drives.
While many LENR electrolysis and gas loading experiments failed, the successful experiments had factors in common that modeling can expose [5].
Finally, the patented co-deposition protocol[6,7], successfully used for 30 years [8,9,10,11,12], will be discussed.
Government, institute and university laboratories from 14 countries have published over 60 peer reviewed co-deposition papers. Hundreds of successful experiments have established its reliability and reproducibility.
Both are necessary to demonstrate and probe a scientific phenomenon leading to power scaling and a deployable technology.
[1] D(t,n)α
[2] 11B(p,α)2α, aka tri-alpha reaction
[3] www.rochester.edu/currents/V29/V29N05/photos/Omega2.jpg
[4] nTτE , n=plasma density, T=plasma temperature and τE = energy confinement time.
[5] L. F. DeChiaro, L. P. Forsley, and P.A. Mosier-Boss, “Strained layer ferromagnetism in transition metals and its impact upon low energy nuclear reactions”, Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science, vol. 17, pp. 1-26, 2015.
[6] US 8,419,919, “System and method for generating particles”, 2013.
[7] P.A. Mosier-Boss, L. P. Forsley, “Energetic particle emission in Pd/D co-deposition: an undergraduate research project to replicate a new scientific phenomena”, Journal of Laboratory Chemical Education, vol. 6, 4, pp. 69-76, 2018.
[8] S. Szpak, P.A. Mosier-Boss and J.J. Smith, “On the behavior of Pd deposited in the presence of evolving deuterium,” Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, vol. 302, pp. 255-260, 1991.
[9] S. Szpak, P.A. Mosier-Boss, M. H. Miles, and M. Fleischmann, “Thermal behavior of polarized Pd/D electrodes prepared by co-deposition,” Thermochimica Acta, vol. 410, pp. 101-107, 2004.
[10] P.A. Mosier-Boss, S. Szpak, F.E. Gordon, and L.P.G. Forsley, “Triple tracks in CR-39 as the result of Pd/D co-deposition: evidence of energetic neutrons,” Naturwissenschaften, vol. 96, pp. 135-142, 2009.
[11] K. Lee, H. Jang and S. Kim, “A change of tritium content in D2O solutions during Pd/D codeposition”, Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science, vol. 13, pp. 294–298, 2014.
[12] P.J. Smith, R.C. Hendricks, B.M. Steinetz, “Electrolytic co-deposition neutron production measured by bubble detectors”, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, vol. 882, pp. 115024-1 – 115024-7, 2021.
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Was this accepted by a journal, and if so, please provide the link.
There are multiple peer reviewed articles discussed. In particular I would suggest about 16:30 in the video.
From the article:
Government, institute and university laboratories from 14 countries have published over 60 peer reviewed co-deposition papers. Hundreds of successful experiments have established its reliability and reproducibility.
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EXCESS HEAT
Why Cold Fusion Research Prevailed by Charles Beaudette
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Excellent video....
very positive.
No claims of easy power generation, but clear evidence of fusion products.
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When Elsevier publishes a dedicated topic book entitled “Cold Fusion”.......it pretty much clinches the case for the science.
Fission started with less....
If you think about it, ALL fusion is LENR.
There is no ‘E’, excess or otherwise, until AFTER the fusion takes place................................
LOL...I guess it depends on your definition of "low". A fission explosion is a pretty big hammer to start it off (although the laser inertial confinement guys might be considered "low energy").
The fission ‘hammer’ is totally unnecessary.................
The ‘E’ in LENR stands for Energy — Low Energy Nuclear Reactions.
The ‘E’ in ‘excess’ is ‘excess HEAT’, which cannot be accounted for with known current chemistry. Lately they’ve been using XSH as the designator...
The XSH in LENR could be a combination of fusion and fission, where the products of the fusion reaction are bumping into the walls of the lattice and breaking off alpha particles & other transmutations.
XSH -> X-tra Super High!.......................
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