This is a theory paper that is available on their website which isn't linked to on MFMP website :
Epicatalysis: Nonequilibrium Heterogeneous Catalysis in the Long Mean Free Path Regime http://jointheparadigm.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/EpicatalPRE.pdf quote <<It is curious that epicatalysis was not identi ed long ago, given that heterogeneous catalysis has been studied and used extensively for more than a century. There might be several reasons for this. First, most chemists and physicists are trained to think in terms of thermodynamic equilibrium, so it is foreign to suppose that closed, isothermal blackbody cavities could harbor nonequilibrium stationary states. Furthermore, thermodynamic arguments are usually framed in the thermodynamic limit, that is, to treat systems as spatially in nite, in the longtime limit, free of boundary e ects. These assumptions fail here. Epicatalysis depends on strong gas-surface interactions (Criterion 1) as well as on nite system size and an inert gas phase (Criterion 2), thereby confounding common thermodynamic expectations. Finally, in practice most commercial catalysis is carried out in large vessels at high pressures such that the 1 criterion for epicatalysis is not satis ed. The Haber-Bosch process, for instance, is typically conducted at 150-400 atmospheres in vessels meters in size, thus operates at 109 (Fig. 3). As a result, epicatalysis was unlikely to have been discovered accidentally via industrial catalysts. There are, of course, commercial devices that seem to rely inadvertently on epicatalysis (e.g., hydrogen atom sources27). These, however, are niche markets whose research funding is usually inadequate for careful study of underlying physical chemistry so, again, it was unlikely to have been d iscovered.>> Harry On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > In the earlier Sheehan paper abstract, I was struck by the fact that > this would be possible to achieve perpetual motion, if one could find an > almost perfect mirror reflector of IR (gold works well to 1.5 microns). > Does anyone have the full paper? > > > > Funny thing – they mention a Crookes radiometer with alternating blades of > Rh and W – but was the spinner inside a mirrored sphere with a partial > vacuum of hydrogen gas? The Rh would heat the W by conduction at the axis, > and the vanes would spin because of the differential emission. The loss is > manageable with a good reflector, and hydrogen bond asymmetry provides the > gain - but since they did not mention it – apparently they did not get that > far. > > > > Perpetual motion would be the result, but did they actually see it? > > > > *From:* David Roberson > > > > This result seems reasonable since a hot black body can emit IR radiation > from its surface. This process is in effect changing internal thermal > heat energy into radiation energy which can be harnessed to perform work. > > > > I have long pondered this apparent loophole. > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > >
