From Keelynet.com: LeClair Effect Nuclear Reactions
Mark LeClair will be a speaker at the October 10-12 Breakthrough Energy Movement Conference in Boulder, Colorado. - JWD
In March, 2007 Mark LeClair built and tested the first cavitation
reactor powered by the LeClair Effect, based on our patented technology.
More research was done from 2007 to 2009 with a variety of other
reactor designs that led to a series of key experiments performed from
July – August, 2009 under a grant, titled: Utilization of Crystallized
Cavitation Reentrant Jets for Zero Point Energy Production.
The
goal was to produce a next stage hot water heater reactor based on the
LeClair Effect and was awarded by a potential investor focused on
promoting cold fusion. Mark LeClair and Serge Lebid discovered that the
scaled-up LeClair Effect reactor was triggering intense fusion, fission
and large scale elemental transmutation using ordinary water.
The 1.25” ID by 12” long reactor produced 2.9 kW of hot water using
only 840 watts of input, a coefficient of performance (COP) of 3.4 times
more energy out than in. The water temperature was raised an average of
18 degrees C (32 degrees F) average passing through the reactor with 28
degree C (50 degrees F) temperature spikes observed.
A total of twelve experiments were performed, with 100% repeatability
of the high levels seen in excess heat and transmutation in the various
configurations.
The large scale transmutation of elements was verified by three
separate independent scanning electron microscope elemental analysis
(SEM-EDAX) of the transmuted material...
The transmuted elements were produced as chips up to one millimeter
in size, in gram amounts and clouded the clear polystyrene dishes they
were placed in with rings of nuclear tracks from the radioactive decay
of short-lived isotopes. The composition of the transmuted material
followed the same patterns as supernova nucleosynthesis, mostly carbon
and oxygen (like white dwarves) with decreasing amounts of the heavier
elements.
The elemental distribution followed the saw-tooth shaped astronomer’s
odd-even rule, with even numbered elements occurring in significantly
greater amounts than the odd elements because of the dominance of alpha
particle fusion. The isotope ratios matched those seen in both stellar
and supernova nucleosynthesis. Many radioactive extinct and
non-naturally occurring elements were detected, including isotopes of
the transuranic elements. Most importantly, all the rare earths,
precious metals and many other key elements were produced in high
concentrations, greater than typically seen in most naturally occurring
ores.
The production of transuranic and other transmuted elements observed
in the trenches by the LeClair Effect imply that relativistic speeds in
excess of half the speed of light were achieved during crystal bow shock
nucleosynthesis. Half the speed of light is the highest speed of the
expanding shock wave of a supernova, the only known way in nature to
nucleosynthesize the heaviest elements up to fermium.
High crystal velocity also generates positive acceleration feedback
by bow shock compression. The closer the bow shock to the crystal
leading face, the stronger the attraction from the Casimir Force and the
faster the crystal goes. The faster the crystal goes, the more the bow
shock compresses, raising attraction even further. Acceleration is
evidenced by increasing width trenches.
Mark LeClair of NanoSpire has solved the one hundred year old problem
of accurately predicting cavitation erosion for all materials, as a
function of cavitation and material properties. Researchers including
Lord Kelvin, Lord Rayleigh and many scientists since their day have been
unable to solve this seemingly intractable problem. Previous attempts
at deriving an accurate general equation have been off by a factor of up
to 300X compared to data.
The harnessing of the LeClair Effect zero point energy phenomena was a
tremendous success and triggered intense fusion and fission as a
byproduct. Further data collection including isotopic ratio analysis of
the transmuted particles will provide additional data that will meet the
high standard of scientific proof required to substantiate the historic
discovery of triggering fusion in ordinary water.
The underlying zero point energy mechanism of the LeClair Effect
challenges the legitimacy of the first and second laws of
thermodynamics, extracting energy from a quantum reservoir in amounts
large enough to trigger fusion. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal,
inherent in the powering of the LeClair Effect, further challenges
Newton’s laws of motion for reaction and other opposing forces.
The discovery of the zero point energy based LeClair Effect
triggering fusion, fission and large scale elemental transmutation by
Mark LeClair and Serge Lebid was historic and could solve both the
energy and natural resource crisises.
The LeClair Effect explains excess heat and transmutation observed in
electrolytic cells (Pons, Fleischmann & others) and by hydrodynamic
means such as the Griggs pump or sonofusion (ultrasound), cavitation is
present in all of them.
The current technology could easily provide large scale production of
hot water for residential, commercial and industrial hot water at a
capital and operating cost far lower than fossil fuel, nuclear and other
LENR-based technologies.
For much more details on this work, see Mark LeCLAIR - Nanojet Cavitation.
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