Axil,
Carbon nanocone properties: http://www.mse.ncsu.edu/CompMatSci/pdf/full3.pdf
"most probable spot for emitting tunneling electrons in the presence of
external field"
Nanocone production is covered by:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14356007.n05_n06/pdf
page 15, 3.2 from heavy oil or gaseous hydrocarbons in arc plasmas.
Warm Regards,
Reliable
Axil Axil wrote:
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
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<integral.property.serv...@gmail.com
<mailto: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/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
<mailto:ecatbuil...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Interesting link on the
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.
