In reply to OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson's message of Thu, 7 Apr 2011 07:38:42 -0500: Hi, [snip] >> Maximally shrinking 0.11 gm of H2 would therefore yield 752 kWh of energy, >> about ~30 times what was actually measured. Furthermore the calculation >of the >> amount of Hydrogen measured assumes that none was absorbed by the Ni >during filling >> of the reactor, which probably isn't true. IOW there may actually have >been more >> than 0.11 gm of H present in the reactor. > >Woah! "...~30 times what was measured." Did I read that correctly?
Yes. >You're >theorizing that hydrino formation can't be entirely ruled out as the source >of the heat? Not only can't it be ruled out, I think it is very likely the case given the magical level of 24. In fact I suspect the mechanism is as follows: A fast particle splits a Hydrino molecule into two Hydrinos. Since these are in intimate contact with metals, they rapidly each acquire a free electron forming Hy-. Each of these then eventually migrates to the surface of the metal where it reacts with a neutral Hydrogen atom (in the ground state; such as is likely to be found on the surface of Ni), expelling a fast electron as the Hydrino molecule is formed. (The electron that gets expelled is the ground state electron of the Hydrogen atom). Because the Hy- is small, heavy, and negatively charged, this process is analogous to the formation of muonic molecules from ordinary Hydrogen. The binding energy of a level 24 Hydrino with a proton is > 8000 eV, so there is plenty of energy available to strip the electron from a Hydrogen atom (and send it on it's way with more than enough energy to split other Hydrino molecules). Because level 24 is the smallest Hydrino than can still form a Hydride, this mechanism though a very fast means of producing Hydrinos at level 24 can't produce Hydrinos any smaller than this. At level 24 the energy required to split a molecule is about 1.2 keV / Hydrino, while the energy obtained from creating a new Hydrino is about 8 keV). These two figures combined yield a ratio of about 7, which may explain why Rossi wants to configure his reactor with an amplification factor of about 8. ;) The fast amplification mechanism, combined with the restriction to level 24 ensure that eventually the vast majority of Hydrinos present are at this level. BTW at 8 keV / H, the oceans of the Earth would supply all our energy needs at the current rate of use for 263 billion years. :) (Perhaps needless to say, we will no longer be around to enjoy it, nor will the Earth itself, which is due to be vaporized by a red giant Sun in about 5 billion years time.) [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
