From: David Roberson
My reason for asking about the hydrocarbon was that it is contains a great deal of hydrogen that must be stripped away from the carbon when burned. Once free, I would expect it to behave much like a broken apart hydrogen molecule. Do you understand why free hydrogen taken from a hydrocarbon would be different than the free hydrogen derived from an H2 molecule? Dave, Please do not confuse me with an expert on Dirac vis-à-vis LENR. Much of this information and speculation has been floating around on Vortex and other parts of the web for years, and my role in this thread has been simply to try to regurgitate it into a framework that attempts to explain what is actually seen and what is not seen, in the Rossi effect. This is in anticipation of upcoming results showing very few indicia of nuclear reactions. However, these results could instead show evidence that indicates Rossi’s original idea of nickel transmuting to copper. As for why hydrocarbons would seem to be less likely to participate in excess gain reactions following combustion – such as an induced epo interaction, my guess is that carbon is loaded with valence electrons to begin with - which then become free and will flood the local environment, making it less likely that a bare proton will be able to attract negative energy in its short lifetime. In contrast, carbon which is in the form of CNT would have all the valence electrons strongly bound, and therefore would be more conducive to promoting the epo reaction. Just a guess…
