At 10:52 PM 8/19/2012, Jouni Valkonen wrote:
Indeed, small traces of transmutations (e.g. Pd>Ag, Tiâ>Vd and Ni>Cu) may be explained by neutron production in light element fusion reactions. Afterall Fleischmann thought that he saw some neutrons, although there were no where near enough of them to be statistically significant or what is expected from hot fusion reactions. Just an idea.
Fleischmann's neutrons were also based on a defective understanding of the instrumentation, apparently. There were really far, far fewer neutrons than what he though he found. This caused an enormous amount of confusion!
Therefore it would be important to look for helium and tritium also from Ni-H cells. Where Celani's cell is perhaps the most advanced. Celani should send his cell for someone who has mass spectrosopy available.
A sound practice would be more complex than that. One should look at what Miles ultimately did. Isolated measurements of helium, tritium, etc., aren't terribly impressive, because these elements can exist normally.
Rather, the goal would be to correlate release of helium and tritium with measured heat. It requires care in sampling, and blinding the elemental analyses.
