On the energetics of deuterium palladium cluster reactions in LENR electrolytic experiments

ENVR 222

George H. Miley, ghmiley@uiuc.edu, Dept. of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering, Univ. of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 100 NEL, 103 S. Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 and Heinz Hora, hora@phys.unsw.edu.au, Department of Theoretical Physics, Univ. of New South Wales, 2052 Sydney, Australia.
Swimming Electron Layer theory resulting in heavy “complex nuclei” was proposed earlier to explain the nuclear reaction products observed in the “Patterson” flowing packed bed type electrolytic cell experiments that used multi-layer thin films of metals on mm-size plastic beads. More recently a modified model was used to explain other transmutation experiments, e.g., the Iwamura study. This model is consistent with recent measurements of energetic charged-particle emission during flat plate thin film electrolysis and certain aspects of localized reactions and X-ray production during plasma bombardment experiments. The cluster reaction calculations and supporting experimental data will be discussed in detail. If understood and optimized, cluster reactions could lead to an important new power source based on nuclear energy.

 

New Energy Technology
8:30 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, March 29, 2007 McCormick Place South -- Room S106B, Level 1, Oral

Division of Environmental Chemistry

The 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007