Abstract
This paper reports the discovery that water can trigger a peculiar nuclear reaction and produce energy. Cavitation may induce unusual reactions through implosion of water vapor bubbles. Many of this research has been published formally or informally. We have conducted experiments using two reactor types made from multiple-pipe heat exchanger and found that the heat exchange process of water produces peculiar excess heat and abnormally high pressure leading to rupture of the reactor. Recently, we have tested another eight reactors. Interestingly, these reactors produce non-condensable gas. We suspected that they include (22)Ne and CO(2). We used a mass spectrometer (MS) to analyze 14 gas samples collected from 8 reactors, including ten samples showing a coefficient of performance COP(x) > 1.05 (with excess heat) and four having COP(x) < 1.05 (without excess heat). Several methods were adopted to identify the gas content. For CO(2) identification, two methods are employed. For (22)Ne identification, three methods are employed. All the results confirm that isotope (22)Ne and regular CO(2) really exist in the output gas from reactors determined to have excess heat. We conjecture a possible mechanism to produce (22)Ne and CO(2) and find out that (12)C and isotope (17)O are the intermediate. They finally form isotope gases containing (17)O, including H(2)O-17 (heavy-oxygen water), isotope O(2) ((16)O-(17)O), and isotope CO(2) ((12)C-(16)O-(17)O). In the excess heat producing reactors, all these gasses were detected by MS in the absence of (20)Ne and (21)Ne. The observed isotope gases produced from reactors having excess heat verifies that water can trigger a peculiar nuclear reaction and produce energy.