This comment has apparently turned out to be astute ... On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Harry Veeder <[email protected]> wrote:
> If it involves a "shock procedure" it sounds similiar to the > piezonuclear systems studied by Cardone et al > and they too obeserved neutrons. > > Piezonuclear neutrons from fracturing of inert solids > http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0903/0903.3104.pdf > (This was published in Physics Letters A) > > Harry > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Robert Lynn > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Neutrons are hard to shield and when absorbed can produce radioactive > > materials. Could this be a potentially killer blow to otherwise safe > LENR? > > > > Fission reactors typically create up to 10^13 neutrons per cm² per > second, > > and this experiment was only making about 200000 per s, over (I assume) > the > > full 4Pi sphere but was also probably only a few watts of power. If > this is > > a standard feature of LENR and is scaled up to 10's or 100's of kW for > > transport applications maybe we are looking at more like 10^10 per s > will it > > be ultimately be dangerous? The oil industry will be looking for exactly > > this sort of flaw to keep themselves in business. > > > > Why haven't other researchers seen Neutrons, were they not looking or are > > they at too low an energy or flux to be easily detected? > > > > On 17 August 2012 22:10, Akira Shirakawa <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> On 2012-08-17 20:39, [email protected] wrote: > >>> > >>> Absolute confirmation of Nuclear Fusion from deuterated titanium using > >>> shock > >>> procedure > >>> - Mark Prelas: 62Million Neutrons within 5 minutes -- Fully > reproducible > >> > >> > >> I'm not a theoretician (so please correct me if I'm wrong), but isn't > this > >> *not* predicted by the W-L theory? > >> > >> Cheers, > >> S.A. > >> > > > >
