-----Original Message----- From: Horace Heffner > Here is another Hora et al article along similar lines:
http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/HoraHlowenergyna.pdf > I added them to the references. One thing I am not clear on - he goes into many gyrations over the magic numbers and finds new ones, apparently ... but then inexplicably drops the practical aspect of that finding for LENR. Maybe I am misreading the implication, but given Z=180 could be "special" for nuclear (quark ?) effects ... then why not consider hafnium as LENR candidate? That is - since its most prevalent isotope of Hf is Hf-180 ? ... and yes, the major use today for hafnium is nuclear - as control rod material for fission reactors. IOW Hf has a high cross-section for thermal neutrons that outweigh its rarity and cost. I suppose that a few grams could be ground down to nano-particle size range (2-10 nm) and compared against the Arata-Zhang alloy. Ya' never know till ya' try ... Jones
