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- From: hndcol02@uctvax.uct.ac.za (Colin Henderson, Physics Dept. UCT)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Tom doing the Ying-Yang. Hassles with alphas.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.140915.202114@uctvax.uct.ac.za>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 14:09:15 +0200
- Summary: How do we get the alphas into the palladium?
- Keywords: yinge, droege, cold, fusion, alphas
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- Organization: University of Cape Town
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- Tom Droege talks about turning the source of alphas and gammas off and
- on.
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- Gammas are easy (you simply take away the source).
- Alphas would (it seems to me) require a complete redesigning of the
- cell in order to place the alpha source very close to the palladium,
- and then use a shutter to turn the source off and on.
- (the range of 5.5 MeV fission alphas in water is in the order of a few
- microns - and they'd hardly get anywhere in the palladium.)
-
- In order to get your alphas to make it through the calorimeter, water
- etc you'd need either an evacuated tube right up to the electrode, or
- to pump in alphas of 200 MeV+. Nasty.
-
- IMHO, the (very dubious) advantages of introduction of alphas into the
- experiment is simply not worth the hassle. I'd be interested to know (
- and must wait, of course) to know just how Ying is introducing his
- stimulatory alphas.
-
- -- Colin Henderson Physics Dept, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa.
- colin@physci.uct.ac.za
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