I just heard Sunday that one of the first Thermo nuclear devices exploded in
the Pacific yielded 15 Megatons of TNT vs the predicted 5 Mega tons. This
estimate or prediction was off by a factor of 3.
Maybe some of the extra energy came from reaction of Li-6 with O-17 in a
reaction like that suggested by Axil, only with the coupling agent being
kinetic energy of the reactants. This of course assumes the presence of Li in
the device to start with or its generation during the reaction.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Axil Axil
To: vortex-l
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:A bombshell of a different type?
What if a coat of graphite was applied to the outside of the HotCat as a
hydrogen barrier during its fabrication and then a final thin veneer coat of
alumina cement completes the fabrication by covering the graphite and forming
the heat radiating fin structure.
The hydrogen could permeate throughout the alumina body of the remote not
being confined until the hydrogen hit the graphite coat on the outside of the
HotCat.
This method of fabrication would allow hydrogen to get into all of the porous
alumina structure throughout the entire HotCat reactor.
This would allow much more Oxygen 17 by many orders of magnitude to be made
available to the nuclear reaction under discussion.
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:08 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote:
In reply to Eric Walker's message of Fri, 2 Jan 2015 23:36:57 -0800:
Hi,
[snip]
>Have I missed something important?
>
>Eric
Something else I just thought of:
17O+6Li => 16O + 7Li + 3.107 MeV
This reaction would provide a path for Li7 to be regenerated from O17 in the
Al2O3.
The same mechanism that enabled the transfer of a neutron from Li to Ni
could
also enable this regeneration transfer.
0.037% of O is O17, so 450 gm of Al2O3 would contain about 3E21 O17 atoms
allowing for the regeneration of another 3E21 Li7 atoms.
This process would, optimistically, quadruple the amount of Li7 available,
and
also add considerable energy to the process.
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
