At 01:27 PM 12/11/2009, Horace Heffner wrote:
On Dec 11, 2009, at 8:32 AM, Jones Beene wrote:
Especially when combined with an observed neutron emission rate
which is
-10e7 times smaller than expected from the reported levels of energy
generation.
Do you have a reference on that?
Well, roughly, this is the so-called "dead graduate student effect."
If standard fusion were occurring, and were the cause of the excess
heat, the neutron flux would be deadly. Instead, to the extent that
it exists at all, it is near-background.
I've been looking for a publication
with neutron count vs excess heat or neutron count vs He. I haven't
found one yet. I have some data on neutron count vs tritium. I think
I've seen the data but can't remember where.
Correlating neutron counts with tritium would be interesting, though
probably a bit sloppy because of low absolute levels. My guess is
that serious statistical significance could be wrung out of the
results. But the proof is in the pudding. Has someone done this?
Much prior result produced highly variable neutron results. However,
if this was correlated with variations in tritum results, the overall
result could be very strongly conclusive as to a nuclear effect.
