I was not surprised about the article on nano silicon releasing hundreds of times more hydrogen from water, but it makes me wonder if there is an inexpensive method to make nano geometry from these other LENR candidates like Nitol. We know that nano powders can be pyrophoric and poisonous to the touch but I think that is a qualification indicative of the process we are seeking. Below Jones cites the cooling anomalies also associated with these effects and I find myself wondering once again if this anomaly absolutely REQUIRES loading to scale up the effect.. I posit this is a thermal power source created by a Maxwellian demon that concentrates a heat generating environment inside the Casimir cavity while an opposite environment is dispersed over the external landscape - this would allow the size of the gas atoms to determine which environment they favor in a biased manner while the geometry already discriminates against one spatial axis... It is a natural segregator of gas atoms powered by HUP/gas motion. It appears to be violating the rule that we can not exploit energy from random gas motion and IMHO places a caveat on how we should consider COE and overunity with respect to Casimir geometry. Note I don't have to dig into the virtual particles or suppression to simply label it a thermal segregation environment and still come away with an obvious need to load down a thermal power source before it is activated or you will destroy the geometry. Fran From: Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 9:30 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:new experiment (nitinol)
Jack, Nitinol is a interesting choice since both nickel and titanium are proton conductors with a history of positive results in LENR - and the wire is commonly available. Plus there is the strange "memory" effect (which could be utilized for audible resonance). It appears from your other pages that you've done simple calorimetry to see if there is evidence of thermal gain using nickel, tungsten etc. Even though those results were apparently inconclusive, does Nitinol appear to give markedly different results from the others? I said "different" instead of better - since it should be mentioned that in Ahern's testing for EPRI there was another anomaly - cooling. IIRC it was an alloy of nickel and titanium (embedded in zirconia) which provided the appearance of endotherm - the mysterious disappearance of input energy. It might help to do an acid etch of the wire as the endotherm is associated with nano-porosity (and Casimir - which can be both an attractive force or repellent - depending on geometry changes) If you were seeking anomalous endotherm, which could be equally important (theoretically) to gainful exotherm, the experiment would probably need different parameters - such as lower voltage DC and surface treatment for nanostructure - but it could be worth the effort. Adding energy to achieve a lower thermal state may seem to be counterproductive at first glance, but perhaps it is the one detail that will make everything understandable. There was a bit of evidence that the quantumheat.org folks saw a bit of endotherm and were trying to explain it way - rather than to deal with it as part of the package of Ni-H oddities. Jones From: Jack Cole I've been conducting a new series of electrolysis experiments with Nitinol (56% nickel/44% titanium). I did a little video demonstrating nitinol's effect of contracting when heated while running an electrolysis experiment. I'm using KOH as the electrolyte. May be of interest to some here. Seems to me that this alloy may be promising for LENR. http://www.lenr-coldfusion.com/2013/01/23/automated-android-electrolysis-system-nitinol-demonstration/ Best regards, Jack
