Please correct me if I am wrong ... but in the HotCat, I don't believe any H2 ever comes in contact with the silicon carbide. The silicon carbide is an external cylindrical heater assembly around the 310 SS tube that hermetically contains the Ni, catalyst, and H2. The silicon carbide could be just a good thermal conductor to conduct the heat out of the inner 310 SS cylinder. The SiC could also have been chosen to thermalize the postulated low energy gamma that could be emitted as a LENR reaction product.
Bob On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > > It is looking to me like one key to understanding the dynamics of the > HotCat > device is the surface chemistry of silicon carbide when heated and exposed > to fractional hydrogen (dense hydrogen) at temperatures where plasmons > form. > The gainful reaction that derives from this interaction may not be > nuclear... cough, cough... and it may not be Millsean either. Let me state > that conclusion differently: there can be nuclear side-effects in the > HotCat, and fractional hydrogen must be involved - but the bulk of the gain > in the Rossi device probably comes from "elsewhere" ... meaning the zero > point field. > >
