Thanks, Peter, fantastic citation [begin citation] Coherence of particles by radio waves is an obscure phenomenon that is not well understood even today. Recent experiments with particle coherers seem to have confirmed the hypothesis that the particles cohere by a micro-weld phenomenon caused by radio frequency<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Frequency>electricity flowing across the small contact area between particles. [1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherer#cite_note-0> The underlying principle of so-called "imperfect contact" coherers is also not well understood, but may involve a kind of tunneling<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling>of charge carriers <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_carrier> across an imperfect junction between conductors. [end citation]
In a previoous job, I carried out the synthesis of silver nanocrystals of different sizes and with specific surface plasmon light absorption spectra, following some surprising literature. Starting with spherical seeds of less than 5 nm diameter, readily formed chemically, one could obtain thin (5-10 nm thick) platelets of triangular shape and different size simply by exposing for some time (1-7 days) the suspension in water to light of different wavelength. The literature had used both led's of specific wavelength and colored filters, we made our own filters and obtained the same results. Thermal tests never led to any platelet formation, although they could be formed thermally with different starting materials. But the photochemical route was very attractive. We followed through pushing the process (by changing the irradiation light spectrum) until the silver nanoplatelets were actually about one micron long and absorbed in the NIR. Got a couple of application patents using those. Anyway, my point is that there was no theory in the literature as to why the platelets formed that way (and we were not paid to explore theory). The electromagnetic effect you are mentioning might be it, finally pushing everything in the shape that provides the resonant plasmon. On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Peter Heckert <peter.heck...@arcor.de>wrote: > Am 25.11.2011 13:54, schrieb Marcello Vitale: > > Very interesting, indeed. Thank you, Peter. Four observations > > a) MgH2 is more stable than NiHn: Mg might simply suck up the hydrogen > b) nonetheless, it is on the surface of Ni powder particles that H2 breaks > up more easily, hence the rationale to use Ni as catalyst for MgH formation > and decomposition > c) there do not seem to be the cycling and pulsations, electrochemical, > mechanical or electromagnetic, which appear to be needed in order to start > the anomalous heat generation itself. > d) even if some anomalous heat had been generated, how to sort it out from > just a faster/more complete hydride formation, anotehr exothermic process? > If cold fusion had happened, in small quantity, it would have been taken as > a funky quirk. > > I dont think so. > In laboratory experiments they will probably measure it accurately. > Thermal hysteris is an important parameter for a solidstate hydrogen > storage device. > The larger the hysteresis, the larger the energetic loss and of course > they try to minimize it. > If they get negative hysteresis, they have probably found cold fusion ;-). > Also I believe they examines the crystal structures with advanced methods > like x-rays, and when there are transmutation elements, they should > discover them. > > Here is a link to the munich airport hydrogen project: > http://ieahia.org/pdfs/munich_airport.pdf > They use a gigantic metalpowder-in pipes arrangement to store 2000 m^3 > hydrogen at 250 bar pressure. > To unload the hydrogen, heat must be applied. > It is clear, they dont build something like this without previous research. > This is working for years and succesfully. > Again, put Rossis catalyzer inside..... ;-) > > So, if a catalyzer exists it must be something extraordinary, that nobody > tried before. > For example high frequency. RF can make the joints of metal particles melt > or pull them together until electrons tunnel through the barriers. > This effect was used in ealy days of wireless telegraphy. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherer > [begin citation] > Coherence of particles by radio waves is an obscure phenomenon that is not > well understood even today. Recent experiments with particle coherers seem > to have confirmed the hypothesis that the particles cohere by a micro-weld > phenomenon caused by radio > frequency<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Frequency>electricity flowing > across the small contact area between particles. > [1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherer#cite_note-0> The underlying > principle of so-called "imperfect contact" coherers is also not well > understood, but may involve a kind of > tunneling<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling>of charge > carriers <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_carrier> across an > imperfect junction between conductors. > [end citation] > > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:14 PM, <peter.heck...@arcor.de> wrote: > >> >> >> >> ----- Original Nachricht ---- >> Von: Peter Gluck <peter.gl...@gmail.com> >> An: vortex-l@eskimo.com >> Datum: 25.11.2011 10:22 >> Betreff: Re: Re: [Vo]:bit.ly/cold-fusion >> >> [snip] >> > I will try to get information re the work with metalhydrides at the >> > Plank Institute I liked very much the idea from the Chan's Formula to >> use >> > metalhydrides as sources of hydrogen in a Ni-H system >> > PeterG >> > >> [snip] >> Examples are countless. Some of them: >> http://www.mpg.de/1167514/Hydrogen_storage They search a catalysator >> for fast hydrogen loading. >> >> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19333448 High temperature heat >> storage in metal hydrides. >> The full article is here: >> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2662468/ >> This is /VERY/ interesting. >> They use catalysts and nickel doping and temperatures up to 500 degrees >> and pressures upto 100 bar. >> The mechanism is precisely explained in the article. >> Why dont they get fusion? >> Put Rossis catalyst into this container, and it should explode, or kill >> anybody around by radiation ;-) >> >> You will find hundreds of research projects. Metalhydrides are very >> important in combustion cells and accus also and are heavily researched >> worldwide. >> >> Peter >> >> > >
