From: David Roberson It appears that there are so many materials that are Mill's catalysts that it would be easier to list those that are not!
Dave, Yes – the large number of catalysts has been a major criticism of Mills from the start. The number of elements which are catalytic depends on how close in mass-energy to a multiple of 27.2 eV (the Hartree energy) the IP electron hole of the catalyst needs to be… and it is not as close as you might think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartree As a practical matter, most of the alkalis and almost all of the transition metals have been implicated in “shrinkage” as well as encompassing three-body reactions (including hydrogen as a self-catalyst). There is almost nothing, in the range of common materials, which can be used as a control, since oxygen is also a catalyst. Adding to the problem is that the one common alkali (sodium) which Mills early on said was NOT a catalyst, turns out in later Mills’ papers to be one of the most used. Instead of explaining this discrepancy, Mills has conveniently overlooked and removed his earlier publications from his site. (I have an early addition hardback, which he can’t alter). -----Original Message----- From: Jones Beene Cobalt is also a Mills (Rydberg) catalyst with IP “holes” complementary to nickel and iron. A most interesting catalyst mix for exploiting ferromagnetism would be Ni, SmCo5, Fe2O3 and potassium. There could be 8 distinct Rydberg multiples available. From: Axil Axil SmCo5 has the magic hexagonal crystal structure of active LENR promoters like metalize hydrogen. The Sm rare earth configures the Co atoms to take on the hexagonal configuration which directs all the magnetic spins along the Z axis. Was there a secret magnetic preparation process involved in the production of LENR active SmCo5? If so I will know what it was. Russ George wrote: I had the privilege of standing in the parking lot of the hotel where Chukanov had his demo running for several hours in the company of Martin Fleischmann fusing some of our little grey cells over that device. Chukanov answered or at least responded to every single question we posed to him and we sent many his way. It was a fascinating and captivating demo. Martin was the kind of man who had insatiable curiosity and not a mean molecule in his body and showed it in his sincere interest and professorial manner. Chukanov sent us both away with several large chunks of his metal. Meanwhile the hundreds of ICCF conference attendees almost entirely shunned the ‘parking lot demo’ and Chukanov, especially the self-appointed high priest insiders of cold fusion. There was little but derision and snide attacks behind Chukanov’s back at the meeting. After a couple hours in hot afternoon sun with Chukanov and his machine Martin and I adjorned to the beach and floated for a long time like basking whales chatting about this and that. Somewhere in my collection of ‘cold fusion’ holy treasures I have some of Chukanov’s SmCo5 metal. I think I will dig it out and see if some of the recent ‘activation’ ideas make it work even better! From: Jones Beene Aha – so that’s where Dennis Cravens probably got the idea to use SmCo in his famous NI Week Demo. Notably, samarium has a high percentage of radioactive isotopes which could be activate by fractional hydrogen. From: Russ George What about the demo of Chukanov at the ICCF meeting in Hawaii many years ago. In large cylinders crushed and powdered SmCo5, magnetic metal, was cycled with hydrogen loading and deloading and produced kilowatts of apparent excess heat! From: Jones Beene … but wait, there’s more… (best Billy Mays’ tin cup plea) In another experiment you may not have heard of - from Bockris and Sundaresan in 1994 - it was shown that magnetic stimulation boosted excess heat substantially in a Pd-D electrolysis cell. This line of work leads up to the Letts-Cravens effect – wrt understanding the influence of a magnetic field on LENR. “After the cathode had been charged with deuterium for 48 hours at a current of 80 mA, the cell was placed in the field of a permanent magnet of 200 Gauss strength. The cell electrolyte temperature rose to 5°C above ambient after 230 seconds. After 576 seconds, the magnet was replaced by two Neodymium magnets with a 800 Gauss field. The temperature immediately started increasing and reached 13.5 °C above ambient in about 15 minutes and remained constant. The temperature returned when the magnet was removed… [end of Bockris quote] The $64 question - why isn’t a magnetic field fully employed in the glow-stick experiments? By “fully employed” it is meant that: yes, the heater wire does provide a minimal field but increasing the field strength by an order of magnitude could be beneficial. … relevant comment: those who do not remember the past cannot benefit from its insight- paraphrase of famous Santayana quote, which is the logic behind the LENR-CANR library. ____________________________________________
