Re: [Vo]:X-rays, IR, RF & the Rossi effect

2014-10-06 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Jones Beene wrote: http://newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/RossiECat/docs/20121204Kullander-Ni-Isotopes-LIG1204121.pdf > It is not the one from Kullander that I am looking for but it mentions > some of the same details. I see that this analysis was carried out in 2012.

Re: [Vo]:Zirconia?

2014-10-06 Thread Axil Axil
http://www.pnl.gov/science/highlights/highlight.asp?id=803 Zirconium oxide is isoelectronic with palladium. Dr. Will Castleman and his team have discovered clusters of atoms that mimic some of the properties of other elements. Called "superatoms," these clusters of atoms behave like a single "s

Re: [Vo]:Zirconia?

2014-10-06 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Jones Beene wrote: Miley's zirconia reactor came to mind since Bob mentioned zirconia at the > same time I was writing a piece on perovskites. Does anyone know where George Miley's recent engine project is at? I noticed a patent in the article which I had not se

[Vo]:High boson densities can increase the BEC operating temperature.

2014-10-06 Thread Axil Axil
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7110/full/nature05117.html "Bose–Einstein condensation is one of the most fascinating phenomena predicted by quantum mechanics. It involves the formation of a collective quantum state composed of identical particles with integer angular momentum (bosons),

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-06 Thread mixent
In reply to Bob Higgins's message of Mon, 6 Oct 2014 18:19:12 -0600: Hi, [snip] >Robin, > >My understanding is that the temperature of the exchanger heating the water >is at 300C. If this were the case in a LENR reactor, then the reaction >core would probably have to be substantially hotter to ov

[Vo]:Zirconia?

2014-10-06 Thread Jones Beene
You may remember this story from last year. http://www.21stcentech.com/energy-update-lenr-no-commercial-product/ Miley's zirconia reactor came to mind since Bob mentioned zirconia at the same time I was writing a piece on perovskites. Zirconia can be found in the perovskite structure, even by acc

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
wrote: > > Even if 300C were the limit, would that really be a problem? IIRC Jed has > mentioned that 300-350C is the usual working temperature of fission > reactors, so > it appears to be a usable temperature range. > Yup. See: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nucene/reactor.html QU

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-06 Thread Bob Higgins
Robin, My understanding is that the temperature of the exchanger heating the water is at 300C. If this were the case in a LENR reactor, then the reaction core would probably have to be substantially hotter to overcome the thermal resistance and have that operating point. The concern is the tempe

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-06 Thread mixent
In reply to Bob Higgins's message of Mon, 6 Oct 2014 16:13:39 -0600: Hi, Even if 300C were the limit, would that really be a problem? IIRC Jed has mentioned that 300-350C is the usual working temperature of fission reactors, so it appears to be a usable temperature range. Furthermore, Rossi's Hot

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-06 Thread Bob Higgins
This is frequently done with noble metal catalysts. They are mixed with a thin oxide "wash coat" and applied either to a metal or a ceramic base. The Ni is tougher to keep from sintering. You want the nano-Ni exposed, but the nano-features melt at about 600C and will begin sintering at 300C. One

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-06 Thread mixent
In reply to Bob Higgins's message of Mon, 6 Oct 2014 09:09:07 -0600: Hi, [snip] >I use carbonyl Ni, the same as Rossi and Defkalion. Rossi adds his own >treatment which he claims is cheap. Neither use nano-Ni. Will my >treatment of this Ni work? Only time will tell. Results with the QSI >nano

Re: [Vo]:X-rays, IR, RF & the Rossi effect

2014-10-06 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sun, 5 Oct 2014 16:00:17 -0700: Hi, [snip] >-Original Message- >From: mix...@bigpond.com > >> Since the catalyst absorbed 27.2 eV, it must eventually release this back >into the environment in order to return to its own original condition... >(Note tha

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-06 Thread Roarty, Francis X
Axil, that is also a good point that might explain why the anomaly is so hard to reproduce – perhaps impossible without the superfluidic heat distribution you mention.. I do see degradation issues as boundary conditions vary that would eat away / sinter the geometry around the edges which is lik

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-06 Thread Axil Axil
If Bose Einstein condensation is involved, isothermal heat distribution would keep the MICRO powder at the same temperature as the coolest part of the reactor. When the reactor melts down, the entire pipe grows white hot, so there must be superfluidic heat distribution going on to distribute heat

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-06 Thread Axil Axil
A micro particle size of 5 microns is the resonate size for optimum dipole vibrations for a temperature of 600C. Dipole motion is the power source that drives the nano sized field emitters on the surface of these nickel micro particles. These field emitters are best shapes as parabolas or alternat

RE: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-06 Thread Roarty, Francis X
Bob, Good point regarding the sintering of Ni nano powder, perhaps some of the importance with respect to geometry and heat sinking is to keep temperatures beneath sintering threshold. IMHO nano powders are a robust form of skeletal catalyst that become over active to the point of deformation wh

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-06 Thread Bob Higgins
I use carbonyl Ni, the same as Rossi and Defkalion. Rossi adds his own treatment which he claims is cheap. Neither use nano-Ni. Will my treatment of this Ni work? Only time will tell. Results with the QSI nano-Ni have been disappointing. Also, nano-Ni is not durable - I.E, it will easily sint

RE: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-06 Thread Jones Beene
The Violante paper was a fine effort; and it clearly identified one source of gain which was somewhat expected: nickel to copper. It is a mistake to assume that there could not be more avenues for gain than this particular one. Certainly, there could be other channels which were outside the s

Re: [Vo]:New Miles interview on Helium-4, Excess Heat, & Peer Review

2014-10-06 Thread Axil Axil
One possible reason why the first 6 months of the experimentation of Dr. Melvin Miles produced no reaction was the isotopic composition of the initial batch of palladium he used in the experiment. The palladium isotope Pd105 has a non zero spin and could poison the reaction in the same why that ai

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-06 Thread Axil Axil
I believe why Rossi likes to use Ni64 is because that stable isotope is relatively rich in neutrons. The addition of a proton pair(2He) will not result in positron production when a proton becomes a neutron by beta decay in a proton rich nucleus. This is important to Rossi so that he can keep his n

RE: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-06 Thread Jones Beene
From: Bob Higgins Sorry about your caffeine deficit, but 10g of Ni doesn't cost more than a barrel of oil. A kilogram of Ni powder I use was sent to me as a sample. No one would sample 100 barrels of oil. Ni is cheap. But did your sample work? :-) Not being intentionally glib, but

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-06 Thread Bob Higgins
Sorry about your caffeine deficit, but 10g of Ni doesn't cost more than a barrel of oil. A kilogram of Ni powder I use was sent to me as a sample. No one would sample 100 barrels of oil. Ni is cheap. On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Jones Beene wrote: IOW 10 grams of nickel would give the equiv

RE: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-06 Thread Jones Beene
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ViolanteVanalysisof.pdf To cut to the chase - the gain comes from SPP simulated conversion of Ni64 to Cu65. This should shed about 2 MeV [7 actually] but there is no gamma. The half-life of the intermediary is a few hour

RE: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-06 Thread Jones Beene
Not sure if Peter mentioned this rather dated but prescient Violante paper. It is truly amazing in the present time frame. The paper has been mentioned in the past, but few seem to have been overly impressed with the findings, which could be way ahead of their time, and other papers by V. get most

RE: [Vo]:X-rays, IR, RF & the Rossi effect

2014-10-06 Thread Jones Beene
Bob, Obviously there is not enough data. For better or worse, that problem may end soon. The dedicated sites are awash with predictions of a TP2 report by the end of next week. http://www.e-catworld.com/2014/10/06/e-cat-report-watch-thread/ I hope it is not yet another disappointm