Saturday, September 24, 2011

LENR, is it plausible? IV

A quickie post here.  A simple observation that may be of interest.  With respect to neutrons, the Widom Larsen theory requires a prodigious number of them in order for their theory to work.  Contrast this with how the fission process gets its neutrons.  Since fissionable materials release more neutrons than they absorb, it doesn't take as many in order to get fission going, and to keep it going.  On the other hand, by producing neutrons on a one to one basis, such as the case appears to be with Widom Larsen, you don't get quite so many.  But you need a lot, a whole lot.

In case you are not familiar, protons gets converted to neutrons in Widom Larsen's theory.  It 's a one to one process, not two, three or more to one as indicated above.  Therefore, the production of a sufficient number of neutrons for useful energy could be a problem.

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