I wonder if someone could please simply explain this "0.39 MeV Cost" in this short article? http://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2012/WhereDoestheEnergyComeFrominLENR.shtml Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Thanks.
0.39 megaelectronvolt =6.248 × 10-14 joule. I think it's how much energy is lost in a particular part of a process or interaction. I'm probably wrong.
There's no physics here, just (bad) accounting. It's not nuclei which are the hard-to-control element, but the free neutrons. There is assumed a 0.39 MeV cost of liberating each free neutron. (These are presumed into existence from some sort of interaction between hydrogen and "surface plasmon heavy electrons" which is without physics.) Nowhere are cross sections of these reactions or the danger of high free neutron densities or (plausible) mechanisms to capture the energy of the gamma rays discussed and since they assume up to six consecutive neutron-nucleus interactions occurring the free neutron densities or time scales must be insane.
