*Most of LeClair's spiel is delusional.* So true…
LeClair is not thinking straight. Because his process produces neutrons, LeClair wants to develop a hot fusion reactor from his process. This Idea is crazy. Neutron production must be avoided at all costs in LENR. Neutron production means dealing with the NRC…deadly bad. It will take 10 billion dollars to develop such a neutron based reactor at a minimum. To submit a request to certify a new reactor design with the NRC requires the submitter to prepare a design document of about 20,000 dense engineering packed pages in length and pay NRC reviewers about $273 an hour for about 200,000 hours to review the document - all at the submitter's expense. Not to mention that water is bad for a working nuclear reactor fluid. Rossi has his personality problems but at least he is shrewd. A LENR device cannot be considered a nuclear reactor at all costs. LeClair wants to go American which is also crazy. Most nuclear reactor designers go to China to shakeout their designs. The current NRC regulatory approach is setup to preserve the advantage of the international corporate owners of the current NRC certified designs and discourages if not kills smaller start-ups from entry into the nuclear industry. American nuclear start-ups are prevented from supplying superior new American nuclear technology because they cannot overcome the hurdle of the initial high million dollar regulatory fees when they submit their designs for NRC review. In the mid 1970s the US adopted a radical approach to nuclear regulation that pursues public safety as its only objective and goal, regardless of cost, impact on the economy, or of national security. In the current American controlled nuclear industry environment, development of standard technology reactors are to be avoided at all costs. Cheers: Axil On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > Lou, > > This company has been the unquestioned leader in the sonofusion field for > the past 13 years. > > http://www.impulsedevices.com/ > > Unlike Nanospire and Stringham, they have a top notch lab, PhDs, patents, > real results, peer reviewed publications - and manufactured and sold a > working prototype reactor at one time. > > The problem is breakeven. No one can get close. > > Again - there are NO short lived isotopes, unless you consider tritium's 12 > year half-life to be short. > > Most of LeClair's spiel is delusional. > > Jones > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > Thanks, Jones, > > I agree all claims need to be viewed with skepticism until there is > independent replication by competent, financially disinterested > scientists. > > Possibly, most, or even all, results are due to measurement errors or > misreporting - I really don't know. If Nanospire's or Stringham's claims > are sound, they should reproducible. BTW, the General Fusion has > conducted some recent experiments also, and found some positive (but > inconclusive) evidence for sonofusion. If interested, see: > "D-D FUSION NEUTRONS FROM A STRONG SPHERICAL SHOCK WAVE FOCUSED ON A > DEUTERIUM BUBBLE IN WATER" > > http://www.slideserve.com/dallon/d-d-fusion-neutrons-from-a-strong-spherical > -shock-wave-focused-on-a-deuterium-bubble-in-water<http://www.slideserve.com/dallon/d-d-fusion-neutrons-from-a-strong-spherical-shock-wave-focused-on-a-deuterium-bubble-in-water> > > The signal-to-noise level in LENR reporting is still way too low. > > Cheers, > Lou Pagnucco > > Jones Beene wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > > >> Nanospire report that the isotopes generated are short-lived. > > Assuming their measurements are accurate, why should this be? > > > > It can't be true. > > > > Lou, to be generous - most interested observers who have looked into > these > > claims, consider LeClair and his partner to be on the level of > >[...] > > > >
