This is an excellent video in which Bernard Haisch explains the extraction
of ZPE via Casimir cavities. You may not be able to fully grasp the way this
could work wrt the Rossi E-Cat, unless you watch the entire video and then
apply the alternative details suggested below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5IAugkmNso
The patent that he and Moddel received describes one particular way to
extract ZPE, but the experiments they performed were not successful. Why
not?
I think that they used the wrong gas medium - noble gases. Haisch says that
these gases are preferable, when in fact they are counter-indicated,
particularly for manipulating the Lamb shift along with the Casimir force.
Had they used hydrogen in such a way that spillover could have been happened
at the same time as sequential Casimir cavity filling/refilling, then IMO
they would have been successful.
I think it is a reasonable suggestion that this is precisely what Andrea
Rossi has done in his reactor by filling a tube with a critical mass of
Casimir cavities, combined with a spillover catalyst, such that dense
hydrogen is continually and sequentially condensed and expanded in cavities
to give off heat in a continuous flux.
He does this by providing a travelling wave in pressurized hydrogen around a
phase change in the catalyst. The catalyst could be zirconia, and there has
been recent mention (on the Italian blog) of the Rossi tube containing two
grams of nickel nanopowder and one kilogram of zirconia.
Perhaps that is a guess, based on Arata/Takahashi/Kitamura. Or perhaps it is
right-on. Zirconia is well-known to have an extremely pronounced
phase-change in the range of 350C and overcoming that problem is why it took
the 'Bloom Box' and other SOFC devices so long to get to market. Now the
'problem' becomes a 'feature'.
The second part of the equation, which can explain everything which has been
seen in the Bologna demo, and other claims - is that in so doing, the Rossi
active material is locally depleted in a way that allows secondary nuclear
reactions to happen in a novel way. Since the nuclear (weak force, or decay)
reactions happen because of location in an energy depleted space there is
little radioactivity, and the other normal indicia of standard nuclear
reactions, like gammas are strongly diminished.
IOW - the nuclear reactions which are seen in the Rossi device, and
mistakenly thought to be the active means for gain - are instead a
by-product, and a secondary effect of the previous extraction energy via
ZPE.
Jones
