I stand in support of Reliable. I do not discount Chan and the other fellows that follow his design lead as kooks. On the contrary, their approach may be superior to what Rossi has done.
As an underlying design principle, I think that it is the shape of the catalyzing cluster that is important not what element it is comprised of… water, cesium, potassium, carbon… the cluster is made of. The engineering and control may be very different, however. As long as the cluster can hold a charge; that is what is important. It is this charge that suppresses the coulomb barrier. I think it important that experimenters try out carbon as a LENR catalyst. I don’t think Rossi uses carbon as his secret sauce because he states he uses pure hydrogen. Using Bulk Carbon powder would be a poor way to distribute carbon around the hydrogen envelop. A better way to get carbon into the act is to use a hydrocarbon gas instead of vaporizing bulk carbon and hydrogen. Vaporizing bulk carbon is not easy from a practical point of view. In an easier way, without any oxygen in the reactor’s envelop (important), under the action of a spark plug discharge plasma at 60,000C, the hydrocarbon gas would decompose into hydrogen and some sort of carbon dust. This dust may form as carbon nanotubes(a one dimensional superconductive cluster) which would store electrons from the plasma produced by the spark plug. This long thin tube would be superconductive and concentrate negative charge like a capacitor. These nanowires would be electrostatically attracted to the nickel powder, they would attach themselves electrostatically head on to the nickel powder, and their accumulated negative charge at their sharp tip would reduce the coulomb barrier where their sharp tips contacted the nickel powder. This is not the way Rossi’s reaction works, but I think that it is a better way. Rossi’s secret sauce is heat activated to accumulate charge; but the carbon nanotubes accumulate charge in proportion to the discharge rate of the spark plug. If you want to increase heat output on a nanotube based system, just increase the spark plug firing rate. Control of heat output is a simple process with an advantage of simplicity over what Rossi has been struggling with over more than a year. Cheers: Axil On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:30 PM, integral.property.serv...@gmail.com < integral.property.serv...@gmail.com> wrote: > Chan Again Darn It, > > http://hydride.has.it/ > shows reference to processing FLUID hydrocarbons (mineral oil or propane > perhaps) with arc. > Hmmmm. Yes, bleeding gas or pumped fluids suggests control possibilities. > Yes, What about this, Gentlemen, could it be that passing Ni dispersed in > oil through a permanent magnetic field or one created by an electromagnet > powered by DC might control or mediate a miniature Ni H fusion therein? > > Warm Regards, > > Reliable > > > Robert Lynn wrote: > >> Checking on use of spark plugs with high pressure hydrogen: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Paschen%27s_law<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paschen%27s_law> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**File:Paschen_Curves.PNG<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paschen_Curves.PNG> >> >> Hydrogen appears to have a lower breakdown voltage of about 60-70% of >> air at same pressure. So should be able to use an air gap that is >> bigger. >> >> Spark plugs are usually about 0.8mm gap, and if you are using 25bar H2 >> that will require about 30kV at room temperature, but for 25bar 600°C >> I would estimate it will probably be closer to 12kV due to lower H2 >> density (density equivalent of about 8bar). >> >> Most automotive ignition systems do about 20-30kV, so at elevated >> temperatures it seems likely you could drive a 1.5-2mm spark gap, >> though not at colder temps and not at higher H2 pressures. >> >> Anyway a standard spark plug looks like it should work fine producing >> sparks in H2 at 25 bar using an automotive coil. >> >> On 21 May 2012 19:00, ecat builder <ecatbuil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> Interesting link on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/** >>> Atomic_hydrogen_welding<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_hydrogen_welding> >>> >>> It also appears that you can buy "vintage" tungsten spark plugs. Terry >>> mentioned Iridium spark plugs... Any thoughts on one versus the other >>> or using off-the-shelf.. I would prefer to use NPT plugs. >>> >>> Obviously I don't want to create too much heat in my reactor... or >>> blow anything up... (There may be some air/O2 in my system..) >>> >>> Guenter, thanks for the schematic links.. >>> >>> - Brad >>> p.s. While not worth a new thread, I think it is interesting that >>> Rossi says he has been in contact with Siemens. I've long thought that >>> they would be a good corporate fit for Rossi. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > >
