Does anyone have a simple benchtop experiment that can prove the existence of these transmutations and radiation that can be simply measured?
What would be a barebones NMR experiment that can prove some of these claims. Let's try it.
yfree and PhysicsProf: any comments? This seems to be in your area of expertise.
McFreey writes: The energy comes from transmutation of the disk material and manifests itself as a pulse of very high current in the disk or disks. I would start with a challenge to find the NUMBERS associated with this claim: HOW MANY transmutations per second are required to give the effects seen? I think you will find it is a VERY large number. Next is to check whether the NUMBER of transmutations agrees QUANTITATIVELY with the observed output energy.
I should note that by doing this exercise -- being QUANTITATIVE -- we can better make progress in sorting out reasonable/evidence-based hypotheses from hand-waving.I gave a similar challenge years ago to Pons & Fleischman -- and my conclusion as I did the numbers and compared with observations was: the excess heat (if real) was NOT due to d-d fusion. Note that I'm not saying there was no xs heat -- just that it was not due to d-d cold fusion as P&F claimed. I think most researchers in the "cold fusion" field now belatedly agree with me -- the xs heat was not due to cold d-d fusion! It seems many have claimed "excess heat" even before P&F without insisting that it is nuclear in origin, including Peter Davey. (His two-bell system involved two electrodes in water, etc.) I will let someone else due the numbers for the McFreey claims re: transmutation -- he really should do the numbers himself, right? Note: I will be away from town today and tomorrow, but expect to be back for responses on Saturday.
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