Learning LENR From SUN 2 - Proton Flare

Hi, my name is Bob Crenier, and I'm a volunteer with the Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project. Okay, so this is Learning Lennar from the Sun, Part 2, Proton Flare. In 1951, Sir John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton received the Nobel Prize in Physics, and that was because in 1932 they did a fusion-fission reaction, where they took a proton, they accelerated it into 7 lithium, it went to 8 beryllium, and that decayed into 2 helium. Now, they also did reactions with boron, kind of aneutronic reactions, and so they got for their pioneering work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles. All the links and this presentation will be available in the description to the video. Now, Francesco Piantelli, working with Ficcardi in September 1994, had their most successful experiment, and I've discussed this at length in other videos in the past, and they had a high neutron count determined from activation of a passive gold leaf during one experiment. So this lab behind, they had this reactor in here and some gold, and that gets activated by the neutrons, and so you can determine the amount of neutron flux from the reactor. And this led to the discovery that the process ejects high-energy protons, and this formed the basis for Francesco Piantelli's patents, which are part of the Niche Energy portfolio. So I actually have the details down here of the specific experiment and the megajoules of 900 megajoules that were released during that experiment. Now, there was one way that he determined that it was producing protons, and that was during this event where he had this neutron, they were very worried, they evacuated the lab for quite a long time, and the reactor was then later recovered, and three weeks later the nickel rod, which I actually saw, it's about, I guess, a little bit longer than my finger here, and just a few millimetres in diameter, it was recovered and given back to him, and he put it in a cloud chamber, and this is from New Energy Times, Stephen Krivitz's website, and there's a link to that from the presentation, and he observed in the cloud chamber protons, and he could determine the energy of those protons, I think it was in the order of 5 to 7 MeV, you can look at that in his papers. But anyway, they were, the interesting thing here is that the protons were being ejected even after three weeks, and could easily be detected. So essentially this cold rod was still emitting these protons, and this was something that was, you know, really difficult for many people to understand how proton emission can occur. So anyway, that being said, he revealed to us when we went to see him in January 2015 with Project Fedora, that the reason that he determined he got the excess heat in the neutrons was actually because his steel that he was using in his Ficardi-Piantelli reactor contained vanadium-50, which is a quarter of a percent of natural vanadium, and there was an interaction where the vanadium, the proton goes in, goes to 50 chromium, and emits a neutron. So this is a known standard particle collision reaction, and we talked about this in Cab Story. I'll just briefly run over why that's important, but again the links to that will be available from the presentation description and from this PDF that will be in the, able to be downloaded from the description. Anyway, so shortly after our visit, I produced this reaction table exercise, actually it was I think beginning of the following year in fact, and this is just a subsection of it showing how you can start with the isotopes of nickel, and it goes through towards the nickel-62, and there's sort of some sort of looping round. And when I spoke to him about this and said, oh yeah, he says that's about right, but we've gone on, and he suggested it was more a multi-body reaction. Anyway, he uses this process of this proton ejection in his patents, and he uses it with lithium and boron in sort of the Cockcroft-Walton type experiments, which is a known reaction, and uses the lithium or the boron as a secondary material to receive these impacting protons. So you've got a device that is producing accelerator protons, it hits your seven lithium, and it ultimately produces two helium ions. So that is what you've got going on there, and so he's essentially, rather than having a big electronic, a proton accelerator using an electric field made by, you know, high voltage capacitance field, he's actually just using this thing that comes out of the process which he identified in this cloud chamber. And then we didn't know whether he was, you know, what the truth in this potential thing was that he was telling us about the vanadium-50, and maybe it was just a warning to put us off. But on the 2nd of August 2017, having previously tested reactor ash from Suhas Ralkar and Me-356, where they'd only put titanium, nickel and hydrogen in, we observed the production of vanadium. You add protons and you end up producing vanadium here, and then the risk is that you've got a lot more potential vanadium-50 to produce neutrons. And in fact Me-356 did actually report the production of neutrons. So we had to put this out and make it public. Now this effectively confirmed what Piantelli was telling us, that this reaction really does produce protons, and from multiple independent sources. Now if you are trying to build heavier elements, heavier elements for instance above calcium-40, they need often extra neutrons to stabilize the nuclei. And so there's only a couple of ways you can do that, and one of them would be to eject protons, and I've suggested this in the past. And in fact if you look at the Parker-Morph reaction tables at nanosoft.co.nz and you type in the query E3NH with the brackets and quotes, order by MeV descend, you get 3,118 net positive exchange reactions in those tables. And a lot of them, in the high power ones, are with elements that pretty much everyone accepts are in the sun. So for instance if you've got lithium-7 here and boron-10, you're getting a proton out and oxygen-16 and 24.4 mega electron volts. So you can go and have a look at that in your own time, again the links will be there. And this raises the question of the Lion X-rays, because like Piantelli where he was seeing protons ejected three weeks after the experiment cooled down, Lion was taking his reactor and putting it into a biscuit tin or a tea tin with these dental X-rays and seeing these, what I determined as two spots, being produced. And I surmised that they must be like the magnetic field lines from an emission like this, cutting through the X-ray. Now where we could extend that is that in another X-ray that was supplied by Lion that was exposed, there was this pattern. And again this was exposed after the reactor had cooled down in the same way that Piantelli had determined protons coming out. And in fact if you play this, what I'm trying to draw the attention to here is that the proton flare, which is this described from solar observation, where you have the sun spots and they are emitting protons out as part of the flaring process, that could account for the exposure to the X-ray here. So here you have the magnetic field lines, here you have them overlaid on the Lion 1 quartz and on the X-ray from Lion 3. So essentially what I am saying is that these X-rays may be exposed by protons coming out. So what I'm suggesting is that it may be of interest to the Lion author to put his reactors in a cloud chamber such as that used by Piantelli. So the question is, are these self-organising exotic vacuum object structures the reason why Piantelli was seeing these high energy ejected protons after such a long period of time, and why Lion was able to expose X-rays long after the reactor had been shut down. So thank you very much for your time and I'll see you in the next video.