Arnaud – yes, thanks for mentioning that there are a number of LENR papers where calcium and palladium show up together in a sandwich of sorts.
Actually there are quite a few papers, including many from Italian researchers. This opens up a curious situation. Typically… in the LENR specific papers there will be the unmistakable sign of nuclear activity such as transmutation and radioactivity. These are totally and completely absent from Mills work. (his IP depends on it) Like Mills, Mizuno shows none of that proof of nuclear activity in this experiment - yet both types show substantial excess heat. And notably for Mizuno, as for Mills, nickel is by far the most available catalyst which may indicate several details which other have long believed to be true. These would include 1) Mills describes the early stages of a gainful reaction which does not eventually proceed further to show signs of nuclear activity. 2) LENR shows these signs if the experiment continues for long enough and without a host matrix which inhibits full “shrinkage” of hydrogen 3) Densification of hydrogen will therefore proceed to a nuclear outcome unless the main host metal inhibits that outcome. 4) Palladium does not inhibit a nuclear outcome and in fact promotes it 5) The presence of nickel seems to inhibit the progression of the reaction at a certain point - so that a nuclear outcome is avoided while anomalous heat is evident. 6) The inhibition of a nuclear outcome could relate to ferromagnetism in nickel ! 7) Mills entire body of IP is built around the lack of nuclear reaction – so he will almost always use mostly nickel to avoid the nuclear end result 8) The Mizuno breakthrough has ZERO mention of any nuclear outcome, and he uses mostly nickel 9) Thus – connecting the dots - the Mizuno experiment is closer to Mills than it is to LENR and in fact illustrates the merger of the two technologies and the clear dividing line which is a ferromagnetic host. Therefore and in conclusion – one premise to consider in the “big picture” is that LENR and Hydrino-tech are different aspects of the same underlying dynamics. Palladium is far more active than nickel but when most of the palladium has been switched over to nickel – the result will look more like a Mills experiment since the nickel has effectively stopped the progression of shrinkage – possibly at the 1/11 Rydberg level. Lots of excess heat with little of no other signs of nuclear activity. Jones From: Arnaud Kodeck Jones, Keep in mind that CacO3 decomposes to CaO in a dynamic vacuum with a temperature as low as 200°C. In the backing process in dynamic vacuum, the crystal CaCO3 in the mesh is decomposed to CaO. CaO has been recognized as a catalyst of LENR by another team in Japan (Permeation of D2 in a layered Pd/CaO sandwich) Arnaud From: JonesBeene Thanks Jeff – This could be important. Limelight – as old-fashioned as it may seem at first - has long been claimed to have a number of optical properties which look like they are related to hydrino creation. On a related topic, and looking at Fig.3 in the first cited paper, which is the emission spectra of calcium sulfate, the peak is at 580 nm. Coincidentally (or not) the palladium optical anomaly where the metal switches sharply from photon reflector to perfect absorber is at 590 nm. That would only be relevant if calcium carbonate has its peak at about the same value. There are a number of reasons to think the Mizuno breakthrough relates more to Mills’ theory than to LENR. Jones From: Jeff Driscoll and calcium oxide is a candoluminescent material where limelight is given off when hydrogen is exposed to the material at high temperature: http://zhydrogen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Candoluminescence-of-cave-gypsum.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXl6H7G6BMU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limelight For those who have not carefully followed Mills' work on dense hydrogen (hydrino) - calcium is listed as a favored catalyst. This could be important (or not) in the context of the recent Mizuno breakthrough ... certainly it has not been mentioned before but perhaps it should be (at least listed as a possibility) due to a few other related details. The Rydberg level for Ca is the fifth - 1/5 as it is inverted and notably calcium is the one of the few for this level of shrinkage. There is complementary catalysis with the other potential catalysts present, since there is palladium - first level, oxygen/carbonate ion - 2nd level, nickel 7th and 11th and now calcium in the middle - so that there is a deepening progression which could set up a cascade of some kind. If one is not tied down to any particular M.O. or theory - then this spread of catalysis values could be relevant in the context of Alan Goldwater's new report on his early stage effort at replication where he finds calcium: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16dP_SmSP8SuQbZ7p9eGoCwf1vwJKh7KPL7NAYv7j13o/edit Really nice insight by Alan. -- Jeff Driscoll 617-290-1998
