With speculation rampant on the subject of the latest Mills/BrLP miracle
device - here are a few thoughts from the fringe that most observers
have never contemplated.
As we know from 75 years of experimentation with heavy water - neutrons
are hard to avoid and passing an electron beam through deuterium will
release neutrons in proportion to the power of the discharge. One cannot
avoid this problem using distilled water, due to small amount of
deuterium and the statistical energy distribution in electric arcs
(Boltzmann's tail). However, deuterium-depleted water is available. For
a price. It is a bit ironic that to avoid the "taint" of nuclear energy,
a demo could be required to employ an expensive fuel which is depleted
of D. Ironic in a way.
The normal water supply water contains about 1 molecule in 3,200 of HDO
(one hydrogen atom in every 6,400 is in the form of D) but full heavy
water molecules are much rarer yet are not required for neutron
spallation via electric discharge. Passing an electric arc through water
or steam containing HDO will eventually debilitate (activate) any
reactor... after a predictable time frame. This is due to neutron
activation of the most metal components. It may require a long time
frame but it cannot be ignored. The problem is less with lower voltage,
but it is always there... at least without using deuterium depleted
water. This fact severely limits the demonstration time parameter - due
to liability issues with neutron irradiation... unless depleted water is
used ... and it is costly.
Thus we can be fairly certain that the SunCell (TM) in these demos uses
water which has been depleted of HDO... which possibly makes it
extremely expensive from the start - since it is not available via mass
production. Also - somewhere BrLPs facilities there is probably a "hot
room" but you are unlikely to hear this admission at the demo. Mills
would argue that depleted water should be affordable in the future due
to mass production, or in any event the neutron activation is less of a
problem in an industrial setting - but it is somewhat curious that this
subject is generally avoided, even on forums. Admittedly, this is not a
deal-breaker problem - given the realm of other risks... but...
OK, to move onto something more useful - the intended subject here is
that "other" kind of heavy water.
This refers to light water where density increase comes NOT from
deuterium or from heavier oxygen isotopes but from a population where
one or both of the hydrogen atoms is in the redundant orbital state (the
hydrino state). This happenstance would be planned FROM THE START so
that the net gain comes from forcing this denser species into an even
lower Rydberg orbital. Mills is suspected of being disingenuous to claim
that the process will not need to recapture dense hydrogen and reuse it.
It would be a more expensive proposition to obtain an advanced fuel from
the start - which is nominally light water in which a natural population
of dense hydrogen already exists, but it makes sense if Mills is correct
on his theory. Even if the population of hydrinos is relatively low
(ppm) the energy gain could be well worth the effort... and there is
probably a natural source in the solar corona.
Of special interest would be a putative fuel (which we can denote as
hydrino-water) which is harvested from the oceans. Think about it - the
solar corona sends megatons of dense hydrogen to earth in the solar wind
daily (according to RM) and it ends up in the oceans as it has for
billions of years. Can this resource not be harvested? Another possible
hydrino-water source for harvesting is the spent water from nuclear
reactors which is also activated but that may not matter once Mills gets
over his problem of denial of LENR.
In short, it is highly doubtful that this SunCell (TM) device "extracts
energy from water" in the way that proponents have been lead to believe.
It is highly likely that neutron activation is a problem. It is highly
likely that the process is LENR, or stated more succinctly - that LENR
and Mills are differing aspects of the same phenomenon which at some
stage requires the densification of hydrogen.
- [Vo]:The other "heavy water" Jones Beene
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