Right, Bob. It looks like the dense deuterium essentially permits a comparatively slow laser pulse to break up nucleons instead of fusing them - which is ironic. (in more ways than one).
More from less. The bad news is that it hasn’t been duplicated by a most interested party who has long experience doing similar things. Another flash from the past: “Unleashing the Quark within: LENR, Klein-Gordon Equation, and Elementary Particle Physics” This was floating around after Arata from the University of New Mexico and turned up today, in thinking about quark manipulation as being easier to pull off than fusion…. From: Bob Cook It seems the 1999 experimenters thought that neutrons were the cause or result of the reaction that was observed. >>>“We achieve an efficiency of about 105 fusion neutrons per joule of incident >>>laser energy, which approaches the efficiency of large-scale laser-driven >>>fusion experiments. Our results should facilitate a range of fusion >>>experiments using small-scale lasers, and may ultimately lead to the >>>development of a table-top neutron source, which could potentially find wide >>>application in materials studies.”<<< Neutrons were not reported in the case in the Holmlid reaction as far as I know. The situation seems to be different. It may be that the 1999 experimenters only assumed neutrons were present. Bob Cook From: Jones Beene <mailto:jone...@pacbell.net> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2015 7:07 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:Check this out - Nature 1999 This is from the journal Nature in 1999 – and it reads like “déjà vu all over again”… since it was done with a table top laser and clusters of deuterium - but is hot fusion on a small scale – ICF … and way ahead of its time … since it is also very much like Holmlid’s claims, with one notable difference … http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v398/n6727/abs/398489a0.html … one of the authors, Ken Wharton was present at the Ólafsson SRI colloquium and indicated that he had not been successful making the dense deuterium, but it is really only that one “detail” which ties everything together into a game changer technology. Which is to say that LENR and ICF hot fusion are so very close to becoming a hybrid, and now we see that they have been close since 1999 – such that a hybrid with LENR, using even lower energy - will be readily accepted by the mainstream (after all this is Nature) … if and when … the dense deuterium for ICF targets is replicated. Everything else is in place… essentially. It is mind boggling, in a way that the wording of the 1999 Letter is so similar…
