1995.10.10 / Mitchell Jones /  Re: Griggs simplicity incarnate
     
Originally-From: 21cenlogic@i-link.net (Mitchell Jones)
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
Subject: Re: Griggs simplicity incarnate
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 11:58:36 -0500
Organization: 21st Century Logic

In article <hheffner-0910951110490001@204.57.193.64>,
hheffner@matsu.ak.net (Horace Heffner) wrote:

> In article <21cenlogic-0110951249530001@austin-1-1.i-link.net>,
> 21cenlogic@i-link.net (Mitchell Jones) wrote:
> 
> > In article <199509291435.KAA59577@pilot03.cl.msu.edu>, blue@pilot.msu.edu
> > (Richard A Blue) wrote:
> > 
> > > Since the question of water purity has come into the debate over
> > > measurements of the performance of the Griggs device I thought
> > > I would remind everyone that a portion of the evidence put forth
> > > by Jed Rothwell involves operations of the Griggs device in
> > > carpet mills where the water is certainly not potable.
> > 
> > ***{Why do you say so? Most carpet mills use city water, just like
> > everyone else. --Mitchell Jones}***
> > > 
> > > Indeed one of the claimed advantages of the Griggs device over
> > > conventional steam generators is that it runs well on trashy
> > > water.
> > 
> > ***{Irrelevant, since there is no reason to believe that Griggs was using
> > "trashy water" in his experimental runs. --Mitchell Jones}***
> 
> The burden of proof lies with the claimant.  "No reason to believe" is not
> affirmative proof.  Neither can debate confirm a theory or claim, only
> reproducible experimental data. 

***{Horace, those are fine sounding words. However, the truth is that at
some point we have to throw up our hands and say "Enough is enough!" Why?
Because, otherwise, nobody would ever be able to prove anything. Skeptics
can keep hypothesizing new "problems" forever, if they bear no buden to
produce evidence to support their speculations. The truth is that speech
itself would be impossible, if we did not assume that standard conditions
apply when interpreting the statements of others. In the case of
experimental designs which consume large volumes of water, such as that of
Griggs, the norm is to use tap water, and I assume that is what Griggs
used because *nobody*, in *any* of the voluminous descriptions of his
activities that I have read, has *ever* said otherwise. Nobody said he
used distilled water, and nobody said he used sewage, feedlot runoff,
swamp water, sludge, industrial effluent, mud, etc. Therefore, standard
conditions apply. And standard conditions, to repeat, are *tap water.*
--Mitchell Jones}*** 

Confirmation requires proof trashy water
> was not used

***{In my view, the claim that Griggs used anything other than tap water
is ridiculous. It does not faze me in the slightest, and I would not
insult the man by calling him up on the telephone and asking him about it.
If, however, you wish to do so, I say go for it! He is in Rome, Georgia,
and his company is called Hydrodynamics, Inc., if memory serves.
--Mitchell Jones}***

, or at least proof specific heat is adequately considered

***{Again, as we have already discussed at length, if tap water was used,
then the specific heat of distilled water, as determined by looking it up
in the Handbook of Chemistry and physics, is a perfectly adequate
approximation. --Mitchell Jones}***

,
> plus reproduction of the results independently elsewhere. 

***{Reproduction of results elsewhere would, of course, be desirable.
However, I personally do not have enough doubt about the validity of the
results to finance replication out of my own pocket, and neither,
apparently, does anyone else in the "cold fusion" camp. As for "skeptics,"
they are for the most part conformists who are paralyzed with terror at
the thought of holding an opinion that hasn't been stamped "APPROVED" by
the government. Moreover, they have a cold, empty place deep down inside
that tells them that, if they attempt to replicate Griggs, they will
succeed. Since they know that they will be tarred and feathered and run
out of town on a rail if they announce such a result, they see *no reason*
to investigate the Griggs device! (Ain't science great?) --Mitchell
Jones}***

  Since you are an
> objectivist I must be preaching to the choir on this, though. 

***{Damn! Who blew my cover? --Mitchell Jones}***

 Do you know
> where things are moving with this device? 

***{They aren't, as far as I know. Who wants to be tarred and feathered
and run out of town on a rail? --Mitchell Jones}***

 Is any further independent
> evaluation planned?

***{Not by me. --Mitchell Jones}***
> 
> Regards,                          <hheffner@matsu.ak.net>
>                                   PO Box 325 Palmer, AK 99645
> Horace Heffner                    907-746-0820

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1995.10.10 / Craig Stangland /  Re: Cold Fusion Demo at SOFE '95 Worked Well
     
Originally-From: Craig Stangland <cstangl>
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
Subject: Re: Cold Fusion Demo at SOFE '95 Worked Well
Date: 10 Oct 1995 19:34:23 GMT
Organization: NODE-TO-NODE SURVEILLANCE

Jed,

This is exciting news.  What do you foresee in the short and long term for
commercially available products?

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1995.10.10 / William Mook /  Re: PLASMAK(tm) aneutronic fusion 2005
     
Originally-From: "William H. Mook, Jr." <wm0@s1.GANet.NET>
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion,sci.physics,sci.energy,sci.space.policy,m
sc.industry.utilities.electric
Subject: Re: PLASMAK(tm) aneutronic fusion 2005
Date: 10 Oct 1995 20:51:08 GMT
Organization: Global Access Network (Ohio Internet provider (614)717-1700)

Muons can displace electrons to create a form of cold fusion through 
tunneling.  Is this what you're talking about?  Proble with muons is they 
have a very short half life.  So you end up making less energy than it 
takes to make the muon in the first place.

Doesn't boron and Lithium fuse to form just helium, without any neutron 
release?  Is that what you're talking about?

If so, its a very high temp. reaction.  One that's worthwhile looking at, 
but very high.

I've often wondered about temperatures.  If we could get the motion of 
atoms a little more organized... a quasi organized state... we might be 
able to achieve very high temperatures in condensed matter.



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1995.10.10 / R Schroeppel /  SHM & snr
     
Originally-From: rcs@cs.arizona.edu (Richard Schroeppel)
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
Subject: SHM & snr
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 23:15:34 GMT
Organization: Sci.physics.fusion/Mail Gateway

Scott Miller mentioned he was thinking of desubscribing from
fusion-digest, with some expected degradation of the remailing
service.

I've also been thinking about desubscribing - there are a few
good tidbits, but they are hard to locate.

I'd like to see a moderated group as a solution, but I don't
think the support is there, and I don't know anyone who is
willing to handle the flack.

Does the Bill Page list still exist, and would it be an
appropriate substitute for a moderated list?

If not, what's the sentiment re an ordinary mailing list,
sent out as one digest on weekdays?  I'd filter pretty
severely - I imagine only a couple of messages/day would
survive.  Anyone willing to help?

The Mitchell Jones newsgroup would continue as always,
for those with the inclination to read it.

Rich Schroeppel   rcs@cs.arizona.edu

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1995.10.10 / A Plutonium /  Re: Sixth Experiments proving HYASYS; killing quark,pion 
     
Originally-From: Archimedes.Plutonium@dartmouth.edu (Archimedes Plutonium)
Newsgroups: sci.physics,alt.sci.physics.plutonium,sci.physics.electromag
sci.physics.particle,sci.chem,sci.physics.fusion
Subject: Re: Sixth Experiments proving HYASYS; killing quark,pion 
Date: 10 Oct 1995 22:27:58 GMT
Organization: Plutonium College

In article <45bbns$5or@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
fc3a501@rzaixsrv1.uni-hamburg.de (Hauke Reddmann) writes:

> Archimedes Plutonium (Archimedes.Plutonium@dartmouth.edu) wrote:
> : experiment. I feel sure that these experiments have already been
> : carried out. And I feel sure that chemistry experts in some chemical
> : combinations know of "strange" nuclear behavior that just does not
> : agree with the standard theory. That some chemical bonding combinations
> 
> Mr. Pu, you just have explained cold fusion! Mail Jed (sp) at once!

   Thanks Hauke, looks like your sysadmin did not cut the best
newsgroup that there will ever be, alt.sci.physics.plutonium. In fact
some day I may be forced to moderate this newsgroup.

   I think nuclear electrons just may be the answer to cold fusion
electrolysis. It is not cold fusion according to what we commonly know
as fusion. It is stored energy like a battery turning some of the
hydrogen atoms into say a normal hydrogen atom + nuclear electron, or a
deuterium atom + nuclear electron or a normal oxygen atom + nuclear
electron and this saved energy of the nuclear electron is emitted at a
later time. Thus, it is not fusion although some of the electric juice
pumped in can go to forming a nuclear electron such as a muon and then
by probability the muon may fuse some hydrogen together. But for the
most part it looks like electrolysis is mostly a nuclear battery of
stored energy. This would go a long way in explaining the "high
activity" long after the electrical juice was turned off.
   Experiments that may confirm this indirectly is to figure out the
electrical energy put into the system and compute the resistance to the
input juice and if the resistance + electrical output has a
discrepancy, then the discrepancy may be the conversion of input
electrons into nuclear electrons.
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1995.10.11 / Paul Koloc /  Re: PLASMAK(tm) aneutronic fusion 2005
     
Originally-From: pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M. Koloc)
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
Subject: Re: PLASMAK(tm) aneutronic fusion 2005
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 01:23:53 GMT
Organization: Prometheus II, Ltd.

In article <45cq5l$2a9@cnn.Princeton.EDU> Robert F. Heeter <rfheeter@pho
nix.princeton.edu> writes:
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
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>
>(* Newsgroups reduced to just sci.physics.fusion to avoid unnecessary
>crossposting. *)
>
>In article <DG77sJ.Eux@prometheus.UUCP> Paul M. Koloc,
>pmk@prometheus.UUCP writes:
>>In article <45adbp$20m@s1.GANet.NET> "William H. Mook, Jr." <wm0@s1.GANet.NET> writes:
>>>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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>>>To: jabowery@netcom.com

>>It's a fusion like reaction which produces no neutrons, although some
>>aneutronic fuels have side reactions producing a few neutrons (less
>>than 5%) of the total number.   

>Actually, aneutronic fusion is *by definition* a *fusion* reaction
>which produces *no* neutrons.  

You're being far too technical.  The term as far as I can trace back,
"aneutronic" was first brought into use by Bogdan Maglich.  His use 
was not nearly so restrictive, and in fact his definition is the 
source for my "definition".  Check your control board and turn on the 
"Fuzzy logic button".     

The concept of aneutronic fusion or aneutronic energy is mostly
used in the engineering sense.  It connotes the impression that
the burn products deliver most of the energy as charged particles,
and not as wall disintegrating hot neutron flux, as you would find 
in the fantasy of a tokamak magically enhanced to actually burn 
with good commercial yield of energy.  

>>>If you plot the energy per nucleon versus atomic weight, you end up
>>>having a lot of energy at the ends, and a deficit of energy in the 
>>>middle.  Iron, 56, I think, is near the low point in energy per nucleon.

>>So far so good, iron is indeed the ash of the elements. 

>Incorrect.  An article in a very recent issue of the 
>_American Journal of Physics_ (June or July 1995, I believe) corrected 
>this widely-held yet nonetheless false belief.  Nickel-62 has the 
>highest binding energy per nucleon.  Iron-56 is close, but not the peak 
>of the binding-energy-per-nucleon vs. nuclear mass curve. 

Golly, that explains the huge ratio of nickel-62 to iron isotopes
in the universe.  Guess we can still get a glow out of all that
iron fuel out there.  How's your iron fusion engine doing for
you Bob?  You might just be able to get a fusion reaction out of
the iron, and a cold fusion reaction out of the nickel with an
appropriate amount of added D,Li or whatever makes those things 
work.  

>                        All fusion reactions known must
>have at least two end products - in order to conserve energy
>and momentum simultaneously - and most of these involve 
>a fusion reaction followed by a fission reaction.  

Ok, but, only the fission reaction field of fusion (light "Z" 
end) and fission (heavy "Z" end) generate neutrons, or radioactive 
particles.  

It is only the aneutronic reactions that do not produce such 
garbage.      

These are the "green" reactions of future energy as opposed to 
the "brownish, more aromatic, radioactive" ones, of the tokamak
DT burning dreamers.  

> .  .         .              .                  ... The fact 
>that fusion reactions generally have a fission *too* doesn't 
>keep them from being classified as fusion reactions in the 
>standard nomenclature.  

No, it's that their fission field includes neutrons (or radioactive
particles).  

So, the point I am making Robert, is that aneutronic energy 
represents a distinctive reaction or energy category.  Certainly, 
that's true for engineers and philosophers, if not pp-types.  

>Except that this isn't controversial.  Paul's a minority of one
>on this issue, so far as I can tell.  If someone with some
>credibility and/or a reference feels I'm wrong, let me know.

You are, oh, so technically correct Robert.  Come back after
you've had a few years of freely interacting fusion experience,
if you are so lucky.  Then tell us how? crisp and precise 
and as well as just What? your thoughts are.    

In the meanwhile, think aneutronic energy.  It's good for 
humankind; it's good for the biosphere.  
>----------------------------------------------
>Bob Heeter
>Graduate Student in Plasma Physics, Princeton University
>rfheeter@phoenix.princeton.edu / rfheeter@pppl.gov
>http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter
>Of course I do not speak for anyone else in any of the above.
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1995.10.10 / Mitchell Jones /  Re: The Protoneutron Theory of
     
Originally-From: 21cenlogic@i-link.net (Mitchell Jones)
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
Subject: Re: The Protoneutron Theory of
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 11:16:19 -0500
Organization: 21st Century Logic

In article <45b9di$8sn@yama.mcc.ac.uk>, Ben Commis
<commisb@fs4.eng.man.ac.uk> wrote:

> 21cenlogic@i-link.net (Mitchell Jones) wrote:
> 
> > Bottom line: the Griggs device would be "cold fusion," except that "cold
> > fusion" itself isn't fusion. What we have here, instead, is a protoneutron
> > heat engine: an odd device that burns hydrogen so completely that even the
> > nuclear energy is extracted, and yet it produces no pollution and no
> > radiation. It is a "soft" energy source, as benign and non-threatening as
> > flowers on a sunny day, and what it means is simple: the age of pollution,
> > of centralized energy sources, and of centralized political power, is
> > over.
> > 
> > --Mitchell Jones
> > 
> > ===========================================================
> 
> When are you building your first power plant! How much is it going
> to produce and cost?

You got me, boss! First, we need experimental verification that the theory
is true--by no means a sure thing. To foot the bills, you need to find me
a venture capitalist who has a strong enough background in science so that
he can judge these sorts of issues for himself--i.e., without feeling the
need to turn the decision over to an "expert." (The "experts," naturally,
are always mainstream "physicists" who "know" that the facts don't mean
what they seem to mean!) Once these obstacles are behind us, we can get
down to the nitty gritty. 

--Mitchell Jones

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1995.10.10 / B Guthrie /  Re: PLASMAK(tm) aneutronic fusion 2005
     
Originally-From: zcbag@cnfd.pgh.wec.com (B. Alan Guthrie)
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion,sci.physics,sci.energy,sci.space.policy,m
sc.industry.utilities.electric
Subject: Re: PLASMAK(tm) aneutronic fusion 2005
Date: 10 Oct 1995 15:00:03 GMT
Organization: Westinghouse NMD

In article <45c5p5$ior@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> mbk@jt3ws1.etd.ornl.gov (Kennel) writes:
>hing.mpg.de> <jaboweryDG3ArC.G8x@netcom.com> <45adbp$20m@s1.GANet.NET>
>Reply-To: kennel@msr.epm.ornl.gov
>NNTP-Posting-Host: jt3ws1.etd.ornl.gov
>X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
>Xref: news.pgh.wec.com sci.physics.fusion:21280 sci.physics:124337
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>
>William H. Mook, Jr. (wm0@s1.GANet.NET) wrote:
>> Here's how it would work:
>
>> Say species A is lightweight, and it easily captures say a neutron and 
>> releases an energetic photon (gamma ray).
>> Say species B is heavyweight, and it easily breaks apart if struck by an 
>> energetic gamma ray.  In the process, releasing a number of neutrons.
>> So, here's how it would work:
>>                n ----> A ----> g ----> B -----> n, n
>
>> This binary reaction, and there are other processes that could sustain
>> this type of thing, K-capture for example, and release of a positron...
>> could be initiated by the capture of a neutron by a nucleus...
>
>One problem that I see is that photons, unlike neutrons, will couple
>to the abundant electrons, so that most of them will not cause new
>nuclear reactions, but would be scattered away.  I.e. the critical mass 
>might be enormous.
>

   Also, the binding energy of the last neutron is typically
   around 5 MeV, as I recall, although in a few cases, the binding
   energy is smaller (deuterium comes to mind).  But what is
   the binding energy of the last two neutrons, since I need to
   have more than one neutron kicked out a substantial portion
   of the time.  I don't know of any (gamma,2n) reactions, although
   I guess if the gamma has high enough energy (10s of MeV), it
   could happen.  But where do these high-energy gammas come from?



-- 
B. Alan Guthrie, III            |  When the going gets tough,
                                |  the tough hide under the table.
alan.guthrie@cnfd.pgh.wec.com   |
                                |                    E. Blackadder
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1995.10.10 /  Greason /  Re: PLASMAK(tm) aneutronic fusion 2005
     
Originally-From: greason@ix.netcom.com (Greason)
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion,sci.physics,sci.energy,sci.space.policy,m
sc.industry.utilities.electric
Subject: Re: PLASMAK(tm) aneutronic fusion 2005
Date: 10 Oct 1995 18:40:21 GMT
Organization: Netcom

In <45e1pj$mpp@daisy.pgh.wec.com> zcbag@cnfd.pgh.wec.com (B. Alan Guthrie)
writes: 
>
>In article <45c5p5$ior@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> mbk@jt3ws1.etd.ornl.gov (Kennel)
writes:
>>hing.mpg.de> <jaboweryDG3ArC.G8x@netcom.com> <45adbp$20m@s1.GANet.NET>
>>Reply-To: kennel@msr.epm.ornl.gov
>>NNTP-Posting-Host: jt3ws1.etd.ornl.gov
>>X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
>>Xref: news.pgh.wec.com sci.physics.fusion:21280 sci.physics:124337
sci.energy:36131 sci.space.policy:18009 misc.industry.utilities.electric:1485
>>
>>William H. Mook, Jr. (wm0@s1.GANet.NET) wrote:
>>> Here's how it would work:
>>
>>> Say species A is lightweight, and it easily captures say a neutron and 
>>> releases an energetic photon (gamma ray).
>>> Say species B is heavyweight, and it easily breaks apart if struck by an 
>>> energetic gamma ray.  In the process, releasing a number of neutrons.
>>> So, here's how it would work:
>>>                n ----> A ----> g ----> B -----> n, n
>>
>>> This binary reaction, and there are other processes that could sustain
>>> this type of thing, K-capture for example, and release of a positron...
>>> could be initiated by the capture of a neutron by a nucleus...
>
>   Also, the binding energy of the last neutron is typically
>   around 5 MeV, as I recall, although in a few cases, the binding
>   energy is smaller (deuterium comes to mind).  But what is
>   the binding energy of the last two neutrons, since I need to
>   have more than one neutron kicked out a substantial portion
>   of the time.  I don't know of any (gamma,2n) reactions, although

I've taken a fresh quick look at this every year since about 1980,
hoping for a new idea.  This is the point that keeps clobbering me:
for every chain I've looked at, the "net yield" is at most 1, so 
any loss (and there always are losses) means no chain reaction.  
(The idea is of course not original: I got it from Heinlein's "X-fuel"
in
"Blowups Happen".).  Truly, this would be a fine thing (nuclear energy
release, small critical mass, small mass required to "ignite").  

-- 

Disclaimer:  All opinions expressed are my own, and do not reflect 
  the position of Intel, NETCOM, or Zippy the Pinhead.  
====================================================================
Jeffrey K. Greason          "We choose to go to the moon ... and do
  <greason@ptdcs2.intel.com> the other things, not because they are   
  <greason@ix.netcom.com>    easy, but because they are hard" -- JFK        

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1995.10.10 /  mfisher@nsf.go /  Position Available
     
Originally-From: mfisher@nsf.gov
Newsgroups: sci.physics.computaational.fluid-dynamics,sci.physics.electr
mag,sci.physics.fusion,sci.physics.particle,sci.physics.research,sci.res
arch,sci.research.careers,sci.research.postdoc
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1995.10.10 / Robert Heeter /  Re: PLASMAK(tm) aneutronic fusion 2005
     
Originally-From: Robert F. Heeter <rfheeter@phoenix.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
Subject: Re: PLASMAK(tm) aneutronic fusion 2005
Date: 10 Oct 1995 03:43:49 GMT
Organization: Princeton University

(* Newsgroups reduced to just sci.physics.fusion to avoid unnecessary
crossposting. *)

In article <DG77sJ.Eux@prometheus.UUCP> Paul M. Koloc,
pmk@prometheus.UUCP writes:
>In article <45adbp$20m@s1.GANet.NET> "William H. Mook, Jr." <wm0@s1.GANet.NET> writes:
>>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit)
>>To: jabowery@netcom.com
>>
>>I don't know what aneutronic fusion is, but I did think a lot about
>>different paths to nuclear energy release during the cold fusion flap.
>
>It's a fusion like reaction which produces no neutrons, although some
>aneutronic fuels have side reactions producing a few neutrons (less
>than 5%) of the total number.   

Actually, aneutronic fusion is *by definition* a *fusion* reaction
which produces *no* neutrons.  Fusion reactions have a variety
of products.  Some reaction chains produce more neutrons than others.
The p-B11 -> 3 x 4He reaction, and the rest of the chain (4He + p, etc) 
produces no neutrons at all.

>>If you plot the energy per nucleon versus atomic weight, you end up
>>having a lot of energy at the ends, and a deficit of energy in the 
>>middle.  Iron, 56, I think, is near the low point in energy per nucleon.
>
>So far so good, iron is indeed the ash of the elements. 

Incorrect.  An article in a very recent issue of the 
_American Journal of Physics_ (June or July 1995, I believe) corrected 
this widely-held yet nonetheless false belief.  Nickel-62 has the 
highest binding energy per nucleon.  Iron-56 is close, but not the peak 
of the binding-energy-per-nucleon vs. nuclear mass curve. 

>>Going down from iron, back through manganese, chromium, vanadium, back to 
>>hydrogen... things get more energetic per nucleon.  So, when you join 
>>things like hydrogen to form helium... fuse them, energy is released.
>
>Both Fusion and Fission are likely to produce neutrons.  Fission and
>Fusion, generally, end up with neutrons and elements, or isotopes 
>thereof.  
>Aneutronic energy produces no neutrons, only elements.  Furthermore, 
>In this reaction elements do not just due not simply "fuse together", 
>rather they then subsequently "fission apart".  Bob Heeter doesn't 
>appreciate such subtleties, and consideres aneutronic fusion.   I guess
>because it is listed as the first step.   

We've discussed this before; you're almost as bad as Mitch Swartz
at revisiting stale threads!  All fusion reactions known must
have at least two end products - in order to conserve energy
and momentum simultaneously - and most of these involve 
a fusion reaction followed by a fission reaction.  D + T -> 5He
which then goes to 4He + n, for instance.  p + B11 -> C12 -> 3 He4
is Paul's favorite.  The D+D reaction gives you 4He, which usually
splits into either T+p or 3He+n, but once in a million times the
4He manages to decay electromagnetically instead of by a 
strong transition, and you get 4He + gamma ray.  The fact 
that fusion reactions generally have a fission *too* doesn't 
keep them from being classified as fusion reactions in the 
standard nomenclature.  

>This is important, since he is the keeper of what's controversial and 
>what's not, as usually is respresented in the mag fusion FAQ,   

Except that this isn't controversial.  Paul's a minority of one
on this issue, so far as I can tell.  If someone with some
credibility and/or a reference feels I'm wrong, let me know.

 ---------------------------------------------
Bob Heeter
Graduate Student in Plasma Physics, Princeton University
rfheeter@phoenix.princeton.edu / rfheeter@pppl.gov
http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter
Of course I do not speak for anyone else in any of the above.
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1995.10.10 /  LDIETERT /  SOURCE FOR MATERIALS FOR CF NEEDED
     
Originally-From: ldietert@aol.com (LDIETERT)
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
Subject: SOURCE FOR MATERIALS FOR CF NEEDED
Date: 10 Oct 1995 05:06:00 -0400
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)

I am going to start some research on cold fusion and need some sources
for the following materials

1      D20
2      LiD
3      LiCl
4      LiOD
5      ELECTRODES
       A     NICKEL
       B     PALLADIUM
       C     PLATINUM
       D     AND OTHERS THAT MIGHT BE IN
             USE

I HAVE A DEGREE IN PHYSICS AND MONEY TO SPEND, NOW I NEED THE MATERIALS.
HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON SO THAT I MAY GET STARTED, 
                                                    THANKS
                                                    LINDSEY DIETERT
                                                    dietert@primenet.com
                                               


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1995.10.10 /  b12811@vaxb.ph /  Re: Cold Fusion Demo at SOFE '95 Worked Well
     
Originally-From: b12811@vaxb.phx1.aro.allied.com
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
Subject: Re: Cold Fusion Demo at SOFE '95 Worked Well
Date: 10 Oct 1995 15:40:01 GMT
Organization: AlliedSignal Engines, Phoenix, Az

  Harry H Conover <conover@max.tiac.net> writes:
>   
>  >Good news!  I can look forward to the expedited appearance of a 
>  >peer-reviewed paper on this in IEEE Proceedings, right?  Any advance
>  >word on which issue will report and document this monumental achievement, 
>   
>  Not the IEEE Proceedings, the SOFE '95 Proceedings. Sponsors include
>  the IEEE and the American Nuclear Society. I do not know which will
>  publish the proceedings. Contact either of them for more information.
>   
>  - Jed
>  
>>>>
Jed,

    I have been a lurker in s.p.f for three years.  I've never
posted to s.p.f. as I am only a Mechanical Engineer with a lowly 
BSME, but I feel that I must post a congratulation to you for the
best response to the snide, self serving, psuedo sceptical, 
sarcastic, thoughtless drivel that Mr. Conover continues to post.
 A proper response, not returning vitriol for vitriol.

    I continue to lurk s.p.f. as time permits, hoping that the
energy advances that we need might be reported on the net, 
perhaps in s.p.f.  I hope that advances like that reported and
demonstated at SOFE continue.

Greg A. Weaver

---> Still looking for a good sig to plagarize <---  



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1995.10.10 /  mfisher@nsf.go /  Position Available
     
Originally-From: mfisher@nsf.gov
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
Subject: Position Available
Date: 10 Oct 1995 16:02:54 GMT
Organization: National Science Foundation

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