Re: [Vo]:Dark wires in glowing reactor ?

2015-01-14 Thread Bob Higgins
One thing I can add to McKubre's report that he left open is a response from Dr. Parkhomov to MFMP when asked about the power input to the heater coil. Dr. AP: *Standard 50Hz AC [*presumably variable voltage*] with no other frequency stimulation/wave chopping was used* On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at

Re: [Vo]:Dark wires in glowing reactor ?

2015-01-14 Thread Bob Higgins
When analyzing the Parkhomov image, one thing you should note is that he wound his reactor with a Ni-Cr (type-c) ribbon wire (not round) having a width of about 2.5mm and a gap of 0.5mm. Bob Higgins On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Jones-- I observed

Re: [Vo]:Dark wires in glowing reactor ?

2015-01-14 Thread Bob Higgins
Dave, Try this: http://www.infinite-energy.com/iemagazine/issue120/russian.html Bob On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:31 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I am having difficulty finding a copy of the report by Dr. McKubre for some reason and wonder if someone would post a direct link.

Re: [Vo]:Ceramic-to-metal hermetic bonding

2015-01-04 Thread Bob Higgins
. It is worth additional experiments and data taking, all of which will require good seal technology. MFMP is beginning to get feedback from Dr. Parkhomov. Bob Higgins On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: CB Sites-- Check out the following for LiAlH4

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Higgins
Parkhomov starts with a 10mm OD alumina tube with a 5mm ID bore (so the wall of the tube is 2.5mm thick). He plugs both ends with an alumina rod and cement with the fuel inside. He hasn't said what cement he uses to hermetically seal the plugs in the tubing, but he does say that it is a hard

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Higgins
Parkhomov's alumina tube has a wall thickness of 2.5mm and then he has 4-8 mm of alumina cement on top of that. I don't think any 3.6keV photons, if produced in the reaction, would make it though that mass at a measurable level above background. Parkhomov uses an SI-8B pancake tube with a large

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Higgins
Having worked with STM in the past, I can tell you they are a high quality, high volume IC design and manufacturing company. I believe their primary interest is for self-powered ICs. I believe they are interested in LENR at a micron scale as block to put on future ICs for electrical power.

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Higgins
guidance. On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: Parkhomov starts with a 10mm OD alumina tube with a 5mm ID bore (so the wall of the tube is 2.5mm thick). He plugs both ends with an alumina rod and cement with the fuel inside. He hasn't said what cement

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Higgins
, Jan 1, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: The first attempt did use a Cotronics Resbond 919, I think. These alumina cements are not hermetic. That's why glass frit seals are being examined - they are hermetic.

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Higgins
Ceramics, including aluminas, that are proton conductors are intentionally doped in the grains with metals designed to provide a chemical transport of hydrogen ions through the body, primarily at the grain boundaries (as I understand it). The CoorsTek AD-998 alumina is not designed for proton

Re: [Vo]:The MFMP replication effort live on youtube.

2014-12-31 Thread Bob Higgins
before the high pressure formed. With this long alumina test tube (closed one end), it is possible to heat one end hot to form the seal while the small charge of fuel is kept cool in a water bath at the other end. This may be the next trial at sealing. Bob Higgins On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 8:24

Re: [Vo]:The MFMP replication effort live on youtube.

2014-12-31 Thread Bob Higgins
See inline below ... On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: *From:* Bob Higgins Ø I think the heater is a heater; and Kanthal as the heater wire has nothing to do with it. We now believe that Rossi may have used a SiC heater element and that also has

Re: [Vo]:The MFMP replication effort live on youtube.

2014-12-31 Thread Bob Higgins
See inline below ... On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: *From:* Bob Higgins Ø JB: Then you are mistaken. The purity is immaterial – the porosity is everything. Of course, if MFMP used a fused tube then that is another design flaw. Ø BH

Re: [Vo]:The MFMP replication effort live on youtube.

2014-12-31 Thread Bob Higgins
, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: What puzzles me the most is why such a small amount of nickel is not completely vaporized by an emission of that much heat. Again, this suggests

Re: [Vo]:The MFMP replication effort live on youtube.

2014-12-31 Thread Bob Higgins
See inline below ... On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: *From:* Bob Higgins Ø None of these substrates are porous. That may not be true for even the specialty material CoorsTek 998, but clearly 96% is porous and in fact anything less than 100

Re: [Vo]:The MFMP replication effort live on youtube.

2014-12-31 Thread Bob Higgins
live on youtube. Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: Based on analysis of Lugano and Parkhomov work, excess heat begins at about 950C. The MFMP dogbone core was measured to be over 1200C and no excess heat was found. As I said, I have a feeling that is too hot. I think

Re: [Vo]:The MFMP replication effort live on youtube.

2014-12-31 Thread Bob Higgins
Ryan cemented a type-B platinum thermocouple though the center of the plug. So he had actual data on the core temperature which got to about 1200C. The thermocouple at the surface only reported getting to about 850C at the same time. Parkhomov measured his temperature in between - on the

Re: [Vo]:The MFMP replication effort live on youtube.

2014-12-31 Thread Bob Higgins
end from the plug in a bunch. The next focus will be on the seal. Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:The MFMP replication effort live on youtube.

2014-12-30 Thread Bob Higgins
to ask what cement he used to seal his reactor. We are also looking at ways to test the seals that we make. Bob Higgins On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: CB Sites cbsit...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, Replication fails. They had the dog bone so hot the steel

Re: [Vo]:Ryan Hunt comments on the color of the MFMP reactor

2014-12-23 Thread Bob Higgins
are right, it is very nice of them - AND - Bob is a good negotiator. On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: I though that MFMP was buying that camera. Maybe its just good customer service. On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Bob

Re: [Vo]:Ryan Hunt comments on the color of the MFMP reactor

2014-12-23 Thread Bob Higgins
which should be noted. This is not a trivial question - when errors are exponentially multiplied by a fourth power. *From:* Jones Beene BTW – does anyone know the model # of the Optris camera used in Lugano ? *From:* Bob Higgins The original plan was to buy an Optris camera

Re: [Vo]:Ryan Hunt comments on the color of the MFMP reactor

2014-12-22 Thread Bob Higgins
The color of the MFMP dogbone and the Lugano hotCat are more complicated than what you would expect from blackbody radiation. Both devices had internal heaters at higher temperature than the surface of the ribbed ceramic convection tube. At visible wavelengths alumina transmits a good percentage

Re: [Vo]:Ryan Hunt comments on the color of the MFMP reactor

2014-12-22 Thread Bob Higgins
, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: These effects conspire to make a simply taken picture taken nearly worthless in determination of temperature for this style of device. How about the color as perceived

Re: [Vo]:Ryan Hunt comments on the color of the MFMP reactor

2014-12-22 Thread Bob Higgins
jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: Because of the porosity of the alumina, the ceramic is a reddening (low pass) filter, so the light from the much hotter internal heater coils will be reddened as it is transmitted. . . . Ryan had a follow-up comment

Re: [Vo]:Ryan Hunt comments on the color of the MFMP reactor

2014-12-22 Thread Bob Higgins
Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: *From:* Bob Higgins Ø Being opaque, it means that the Optris camera was NOT measuring the higher internal temperature of the hotCat reaction core or heater coil, but just the surface. Bob, wait a second … just today - in an earlier post you said (correctly

Re: [Vo]:Ryan Hunt comments on the color of the MFMP reactor

2014-12-22 Thread Bob Higgins
for the important tests when the camera is available. On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: *From:* Bob Higgins Ø The alumina transmission cuts off between 3-4 microns… So, unless the Optris has an unexpected sensitivity to light shorter than 6 microns

Re: [Vo]:1995- CETI 1kW reacto claim . fraud or not?

2014-12-20 Thread Bob Higgins
objective was not replication of the original Patterson Cell, but to learn from them what can be applied to other Ni-H LENR. I have every reason to believe the original Patterson Cell results were true and correct. Bob Higgins On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com

Re: [Vo]:1995- CETI 1kW reacto claim . fraud or not?

2014-12-20 Thread Bob Higgins
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: The Motorola deal fell through because Patterson wanted to retain more control of his technology . . . He was a fool. He told me he wanted a 100% market share. I said

Re: [Vo]:1995- CETI 1kW reacto claim . fraud or not?

2014-12-20 Thread Bob Higgins
As I recall, the deal was $10M, spread over various milestones of development. On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: If it makes any difference, Jed confided in me this whole story when it happened. I found it appalling. Patterson wanted the $1M from

Re: [Vo]:Thermal cameras better than thermocouples for averaging temperature

2014-12-10 Thread Bob Higgins
Brightness depends on how much light is in the visible range. What is happening is that as the device gets hotter, a greater percentage of the light falls in the visible range, AND, a greater total amount of radiative energy is being emitted. Both are going on at the same time. It gets bright

[Vo]:Live Google Hangouts Meeting with MFMP

2014-12-09 Thread Bob Higgins
Hello fellow Vorts, MFMP is now hosting a live Google Hangouts meeting to discuss the dogbone project - status and plans. If you wish, you may attend using this live link: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/hoaevent/AP36tYdjGS1897WJvyn7F-lecxcv214L2xLgKrIcX8F2Wx7hZSPlbw Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:That doggone dogbone

2014-12-08 Thread Bob Higgins
Just so my answer is not mistaken, let me say that the MFMP replica will be exactly the same size as the Lugano hotCat. It will have convection fins on the outside of the convection tube just like the Lugano hotCat. Ryan Hunt of HUG has made excellent progress in casting the convection surface

Re: [Vo]:That doggone dogbone

2014-12-08 Thread Bob Higgins
the heaters fail. The other stuff (hotCat heater type) is interesting, but completely irrelevant to the Lugano test results or to our replica dummy test. Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:That doggone dogbone

2014-12-08 Thread Bob Higgins
The main heater coil will be completely encased in alumina to keep away the air (O2). It looks like we will insert the inner coil inside the alumina heater tube and then will use alumina cement to close off the ends from air, so the only air that it is exposed to is that which is in the volume

Re: [Vo]:That doggone dogbone

2014-12-08 Thread Bob Higgins
-ray), which would not have been absorbed immediately at the source. This would have allowed the core to remain cooler than the resistively heated experiment now in progress at MFMP. Bob Higgins On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: *From:* Bob Higgins Ø

Re: [Vo]:That doggone dogbone

2014-12-07 Thread Bob Higgins
Jones, I don't know where you have gotten this data, but I am working with MFMP on this and have not seen any such data. There are 2 heaters being developed. One will model the coil that was used to heat the internal reactants - this is what the Lugano team applied electrical power to to heat

Re: [Vo]:That doggone dogbone

2014-12-07 Thread Bob Higgins
in the Lugano hotCat was not capable of delivering over about 1kW of input heat. So if the hotCat was really putting out over 2.5kW of heat to get it to 1400C, then there was definitely substantial gain. We will know in January. Bob Higgins On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Jones Beene jone

Re: [Vo]:How to bring people around...

2014-11-23 Thread Bob Higgins
My mentor used to tell me: The best things are invented by those who don't know it can't be done. Bob Higgins On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: Beside what you say, there is some common error. This is to imagine that education can help people be more

[Vo]: CNN article re. LENR and foreign policy

2014-11-13 Thread Bob Higgins
Look about half-way down this CNN article: http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1187686?ref=feeds%2Fnewsiest Bob

Re: [Vo]: New Rossi lab photo has much information

2014-11-05 Thread Bob Higgins
is gray. B-type uses platinum for one of the wires, making it quite expensive. Note the long lead lengths of the wires in the photo. On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: From

Re: [Vo]:COP of 3 is a problem for electrical - Thermal

2014-11-05 Thread Bob Higgins
, not in electrical production. It is 28F here this morning and we just had our first dusting of snow. I could really use a nice COP=3 heater. In cold weather climates, even cold weather optimized heat pumps don't operate with a COP over 3. There would be a nice home market here. Bob Higgins On Wed, Nov 5

Re: [Vo]:COP of 3 is a problem for electrical - Thermal

2014-11-05 Thread Bob Higgins
be a nice home market here. Bob Higgins On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Blaze Spinnaker blazespinna...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting posts on e-cat world lately. It's a good point. If coal is so cheap, than a cop of 3:1 for electricity - thermal isn't going to cut it. They're are going

[Vo]: New Rossi lab photo has much information

2014-11-03 Thread Bob Higgins
temperature controller from eBay. Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]: New Rossi lab photo has much information

2014-11-03 Thread Bob Higgins
From the other pictures, it is pretty clear that Rossi is using a sheathed k-type thermocouple with the hotCat. Because this thermocouple is not rated to operate at the temperatures that the reactor convection tube was supposedly operating, it appears that Rossi had placed (by design) the

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-11-01 Thread Bob Higgins
as a check of his math; and I suspect there is an error in his math or in how he has setup his model. Bob Higgins

[Vo]: Temperature Testing of an IH-like Alumina Reactor

2014-10-28 Thread Bob Higgins
Since MFMP is building a replica of the IH reactor as shown in the Lugano test, one of the proposals I have made is to begin with a single-phase dummy reactor for primary purpose of gaining data on the temperature / convection behavior. I propose that the heater be capable of driving the alumina

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-28 Thread Bob Higgins
will cause the voltage to be averaged and the resulting voltage sample will be an average voltage (RMS is explicitly NOT needed). Here are the equations. I hope I got them right this time and I hope the image gets through to Vortex (it is small). ​ On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]: Temperature Testing of an IH-like Alumina Reactor

2014-10-28 Thread Bob Higgins
drive change with their step up in power. That appears to be a strong indication of core gain that should not be present when in the dummy mode. -Original Message- From: Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tue, Oct 28, 2014 10:04 am Subject

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Bob Higgins
What you say, Dave, is entirely true and always pragmatically wrong. Most DAQ systems do not sample simultaneously and have an input capacitance that provides averaging. Thus, you will always be reading average current between samples and average voltage. Computing power from average current

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Bob Higgins
I have no first hand knowledge one way or the other [this was not my assertion]. I believe Dr. McKubre to be an outstanding researcher and have no reason to believe this escaped his attention. Even if it did, it would only be a minor error and does not alter conclusions. It will make a

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Bob Higgins
I hate to say this, but what you say is absolutely wrong. You could only do as you describe if the voltage being averaged is the RMS voltage. You cannot take the average voltage and multiply it by the average current to get average power. For example, suppose that the voltage was

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Bob Higgins
and assess the impact of the AC on the measurement of power. Bob Higgins On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Well, a watt meter, not a volt meter. Yes, you can, and the instrument makers do. All high-quality, high-powered wattmeters use calorimetry

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Bob Higgins
could use a spectrum analyzer. If you have high frequency components that can create errors, you get an instrument that samples with a shorter period. Bob Higgins On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Bob Higgins
waveform additions. If you have reservations about what I have stated I strongly suggest that you put together a Spice model. That will prove that what I am saying is right on target. Dave -Original Message- From: Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l

Re: [Vo]:temperature of the resistor wire.

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Higgins
its attachment to the inside of the tube, and it was there was random junk slag from the reactions. So the ash cannot be said to have evolved from the input powder, which itself was not the active fuel. Bob Higgins On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Arnaud Kodeck arnaud.kod...@lakoco.be wrote

Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Higgins
uptake than the Ni by itself. Once the Li is a thin alloy film on the Ni particle surfaces which are catalyzed to produce a LENR reaction, the Li may then be a participant in the LENR in condensed matter form as opposed to being a participant in vapor phase form. Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Higgins
eric.wal...@gmail.com *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Sent:* Saturday, October 18, 2014 8:23 AM *Subject:* Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: Once the Li is a thin alloy film on the Ni particle surfaces which

Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Higgins
that the tubercle nano-surface was still in place after days of 1400C operation. Any ideas? On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: As someone who has first hand experience working with micro-scale carbonyl Ni powder, and treating these powders

Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Higgins
of the reactor sustain a temperature of 1420C if the nickel particles are cooler that that temperature. On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: The left side (in Figure 1) 45-50mm of the reactor are much cooler than the heated core between the insulated

Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Higgins
to the experiment and see the effects of the changes. Bob Higgins On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Bob-- Thanks for that clarification about the melting of small Ni particles. Are there any compounds or alloys of Ni that would not melt or sinter below

Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Higgins
to keep them from sintering into a solid bulk at 500C. What I do is sugar-coat (with Fe2O3 nanopowder) the particles and this keeps them totally sintering together. On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg

Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Higgins
. These are not active themselves, just a marker of the thermochemical processing. I have seen these myself. These do not melt like nanoscale features. On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: Bob Higgins: Even these 4-10 micron scale nickel particles will sinter into a porous mass

Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Higgins
support a magnetic field enhancement. On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: You are close to my thinking. However,what the micro particles produce is not x-rays but coherent magnetism at extreme strength. On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg

Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Higgins
Tubercles is a nebulous description. You could call those features tubercles, but I do not. They are not tubes at all. I have seen tubes (hence my belief that I saw tubercles in my powder and they were at larger scale (pictures are in my paper). Only Rossi can say which he intended as

Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Higgins
are the main objections to a SPP modality? Jones *From:* Bob Higgins … Think about it like a microwave oven (only x-rays instead of microwaves). The oven walls don't initially get hot. The food inside gets hot from the microwave absorbtion and the IR from the food then heats up the walls

Re: [Vo]:Hotcat melting miracle

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Higgins
Note that the Figure 12 of the Lugano report does not say when the photos were taken. It only says during the test. The pictures could have been taken while the device was in dummy test mode, while the device was heating up, while the device was cooling down. The report does not say what

Re: [Vo]:Hotcat melting miracle

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Higgins
at 9:27 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: Note that the Figure 12 of the Lugano report does not say when the photos were taken. It only says during the test. The pictures could have been taken while the device was in dummy test mode, while the device was heating up, while

Re: [Vo]:temperature of the resistor wire.

2014-10-17 Thread Bob Higgins
It is not clear from the report exactly how much ash was extracted from the reactor. In the SEM of the 2 ash particles on page 45 in Appendix 3, particle 2 is silica - known to be in the grain boundaries of alumina. In 96% alumina, there are 4% of other oxides and and in 99.8% alumina, there are

Re: [Vo]:Greenhouse HotCat

2014-10-17 Thread Bob Higgins
I believe a book has been written about this. It was handed out at ILENR-12 at William Mary College. It may have been written by Bob Pike. I posited that many of the minerals found at plate boundaries were created via LENR as I recall. On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:07 AM, David Roberson

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-16 Thread Bob Higgins
radiating tube. They serve no other function. The wires don't go through these and they do not seal the ends. They are just supports. On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: I believe

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-16 Thread Bob Higgins
I believe the ends are completely sealed with a compound like the Vitcast 1400 INS-H. I also think the space between the inner and radiating tube is probably filled with this same compound. You don't want air flowing in there in case there are cracks in the alumina adhesive put over the heater

Re: [Vo]:temperature of the resistor wire.

2014-10-16 Thread Bob Higgins
Dave, that was my first thought too, but in going over the construction of the heater coils, it turned out to be a pain to deal with the heater wire cross-overs. You would not do this just because you were planning to connect the array to a 3-phase supply. You could simply have an array of 3N,

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-16 Thread Bob Higgins
a proper wires configuration to close the rotating magnetic field formed by the 3 phases current. Arnaud -- *From:* Bob Higgins [mailto:rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com] *Sent:* jeudi 16 octobre 2014 17:05 *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:Engineering

Re: [Vo]:temperature of the resistor wire.

2014-10-16 Thread Bob Higgins
that each resistor wire is terminated into a single external wire and I fail to see why that would be difficult to do. My visualization might be impaired! Dave -Original Message- From: Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Oct 16, 2014 12:41 pm

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-16 Thread Bob Higgins
). In this configuration the Ni and Li plasma can’t get out of the confinement and the 3 phases give also a rotation to this field. But I’m not an expert in magnetic confinement and how to achieve it. -- *From:* Bob Higgins [mailto:rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com] *Sent:* jeudi 16 octobre

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-16 Thread Bob Higgins
supply needed to reproduce the eCat effect? The cold eCat don’t use a 3phases power supply but Rossi could have used magnet inside the cold eCat (Samarium cobalt magnet). -- *From:* Bob Higgins [mailto:rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com] *Sent:* jeudi 16 octobre 2014 22:31

Re: [Vo]:temperature of the resistor wire.

2014-10-16 Thread Bob Higgins
One thing we can be pretty sure of is that any Ni in this reactor at 1300-1400C will have no nano-features. The nano-scale portions melt at about half the temperature of the bulk material. So what would happen is that if there was Ni with nano-scale features, these features would melt before the

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-15 Thread Bob Higgins
encapsulated with a high alumina cement. Maybe the ends are terminated in inconel for interconnection. Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-15 Thread Bob Higgins
a...@well.com wrote: I now think the general structure is more like this : http://lenr.qumbu.com/web_hotcat_pics/hotcat_141014_1_010.png See http://lenr.qumbu.com/rossi_hotcat_oct2014_141014b.php in my other thread for details -- *From: *Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-15 Thread Bob Higgins
I believe the ends, between the central tube and the outer 2 cm hot tube, are filled in with a refractory cement. In fact, that whole space, and maybe not the ends could be filled in to help improve the thermal conductivity. Most importantly it should keep out the air that could oxidize the

Re: [Vo]:the true source of energy

2014-10-15 Thread Bob Higgins
I believe that Ni particles will not work once melted - just intuition, because I don't buy the neutron stripping yet. If we take a leap of faith and say that the central reactor core alumina tube is coated with particles sintered to its inside (like a catalytic converter for example), we don't

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-14 Thread Bob Higgins
temperature insulated mounting system? - Why do we think the 3-phase drive is used? - What else? Bob Higgins On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Robert Lynn robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com wrote: 1% lithium in 1g fuel, so 0.01g, boils at 1342°C. At 1 bar,1342°C would fill about 180mL volume

Re: Isotope conversion completeness, was RE: [Vo]:Pomp weighs in

2014-10-14 Thread Bob Higgins
to the walls of the reactor vessel. What was tested as ash is likely inert or random left-over inert slag in the reactor. Bob Higgins On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Robert Ellefson vortex-h...@e2ke.com wrote: Recall that the bulk results show 57% Li-6 enrichment, vs. 92% surface enrichment. I

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-14 Thread Bob Higgins
. This powder probably has sintered itself to the inside of the inner alumina tube, where there will be direct thermally conductive contact - almost like a thick film paste on a substrate. On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:21 AM, H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Bob

Re: Isotope conversion completeness, was RE: [Vo]:Pomp weighs in

2014-10-14 Thread Bob Higgins
added. I can imagine Rossi essentially thick film coating his active Ni powder onto the inside of the central alumina tube as part of creating the reactor. Perhaps this would also include an alpha alumina washcoat that would render the alumina impermeable to hydrogen. Bob Higgins On Tue, Oct 14

Re: [Vo]:Pomp weighs in

2014-10-09 Thread Bob Higgins
for this too. Bob Higgins On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Sorry – but this reactor is made of alumina – which is a proton conductor. Beta alumina is among the best proton conducting ceramics but you would never use any form of alumina if you wanted

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat Report Leaked- Sweden

2014-10-08 Thread Bob Higgins
The report cites the fuel as a combination of LiAlH4 and Ni + Fe. It appears the Ni is treated with an Fe catalyst as I surmised - this is the powder I have been working with. The LiAlH4 means that Rossi is using a hydride supplying only H2 and not D. Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat Report Leaked- Sweden

2014-10-08 Thread Bob Higgins
) to help excite his reaction. Yet, since there is mention that the reaction will continue in the OFF mode (but they didn't use that), it is clear that these excitations are not required to sustain the reaction. Bob Higgins On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Foks0904 . foks0...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Vo]:Intermediate products of isotope shifting reaction appear to be absent

2014-10-08 Thread Bob Higgins
transmutation is probably less probable than what Norman Cook proposes. Rossi apparently raves about Norman's theory. Bob Higgins On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Robert Ellefson vortex-h...@e2ke.com wrote: Er, s/Ni68/Ni62/g -Original Message- From: Robert Ellefson [mailto:vortex-h

Re: [Vo]:Zirconia?

2014-10-07 Thread Bob Higgins
be nano-scale and still operate at a temperature that would otherwise sinter powders of that scale. I don't think the zeolite itself otherwise contributes to the LENR. I would be happy to have someone with greater chemical background straighten me out if these understandings are wrong. Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-06 Thread Bob Higgins
Sorry about your caffeine deficit, but 10g of Ni doesn't cost more than a barrel of oil. A kilogram of Ni powder I use was sent to me as a sample. No one would sample 100 barrels of oil. Ni is cheap. On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: IOW 10 grams of nickel

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-06 Thread Bob Higgins
sinter into larger particles at high temperature (600C). If nano-Ni was found to be required, it will be painful to make something work at high temperature for long periods. Nano-Ni might be OK for hand warmers. Bob Higgins On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-06 Thread Bob Higgins
uses this technique to expose nano features after partial sintering by oxidation/reduction with a final step of reduction. I start with larger particles, add nano-Fe2O3, and then go through stages of thermal oxidation and reduction. Bob Higgins On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 4:01 PM, mix...@bigpond.com

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-06 Thread Bob Higgins
catalysts for the hotCat as part of getting it up to higher temperature. Then he added his mouse to improve the COP. I think the mouse was a first stage using his original recipe (likening Rossi to Colonel Sanders :) ). Bob Higgins On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 4:59 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote

Re: [Vo]:X-rays, IR, RF the Rossi effect

2014-10-05 Thread Bob Higgins
for photon transaction. Bob Higgins On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Bob, Eric Actually – if you remember from TP1, the Swedes did test the powder with XRF. They did not report any UV signature. They should have if Mills reaction is involved as you

Re: [Vo]:X-rays, IR, RF the Rossi effect

2014-10-05 Thread Bob Higgins
, the catalyst will still absorb and re-emit the input photon or fluoresce in longer wavelengths. What you would really like to see is photons going into the catalyst and no energy coming out at the same or longer wavelength. This is an exceedingly hard test to make with unequivocal results. Bob

Re: [Vo]:X-rays, IR, RF the Rossi effect

2014-10-05 Thread Bob Higgins
the theories describing f/H say there can be no direct photon transactions. If the theory is wrong, then there is no basis for f/H states to begin with and you have no story at all for where the 55 eV came from. Bob Higgins On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: *From

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-03 Thread Bob Higgins
reactor vessel (as shown in the Penon report) and seal its ends. Bob Higgins On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: NMR is caused by the vibration of the non-zero spin vector of a nucleus. This vibrating nuclear spin produces a vibrating magnetic field. The point

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-03 Thread Bob Higgins
be killing everyone around the reactor. Any few neutrons detected externally are definitely a useful clue about internal reactions, but fortunately few neutrons are ever detected. Bob Higgins On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 1:57 AM, frobertcook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: A small diameter membrane to allow

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Report will come, old paradigm will depart

2014-10-03 Thread Bob Higgins
be prevented from escaping from Rossi's hotCat by the hermetic stainless steel reactor enclosure acting as a Faraday cage. There will be no propagating RF escaping from the Rossi's reactor vessel. There is only the possibility of low frequency evanescent fields escaping. Bob Higgins On Fri, Oct 3

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