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

2014-10-19 Thread Bob Cook
and it will be associated with a depletion of fuel mass. Dave -Original Message- From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sat, Oct 18, 2014 10:48 pm Subject: RE: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor One thing worth adding – Rossi

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

2014-10-19 Thread Bob Cook
: RE: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor From: David Roberson Ø But what about the conservation of energy? What mass is being depleted in order to release the energy? Electron mass – 511 keV. The Dirac sea of negative energy is the repository in this suggestion

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

2014-10-19 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: I understand why Jones thinks his latest idea is radical. But, it fits many of the observations--what about the observed nuclear transmutations in LENR? Suppose the mass of the electron is absorbed by a proton in the

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

2014-10-19 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Terry Blanton Bob Cook wrote: I understand why Jones thinks his latest idea is radical. But, it fits many of the observations--what about the observed nuclear transmutations in LENR? Suppose the mass of the electron is absorbed by a proton in the nucleus

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

2014-10-19 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: I keep going back to the SPP and to NASA, etc. It's not like they are doing a lot these days, eg no rocket science.

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

2014-10-19 Thread Bob Cook
Terry-- That's a good supplement to Jone's idea, that he may not think is too radical:) Bob - Original Message - From: Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 9:14 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor On Sun, Oct

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

2014-10-19 Thread Bob Cook
Jones-- I thought you might like Terry's idea. Bob - Original Message - From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 9:20 AM Subject: RE: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton Bob Cook

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

2014-10-19 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Bob Cook I thought you might like Terry's idea. Awkshully, Bob... it could work, but is the proton then neutralized as a neutron? Having a free neutron creates problems. What I had been thinking is a bit different- that the electron itself goes into the Dirac

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

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Higgins
One of the things I noted about the new hotCat is that it seemed to not be affected by the air that would have been present after the powder was loaded. There was no means to pull a vacuum to clean out the air. In thinking about the use and effects of the LiAlH4, it occurred to me that this

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

2014-10-18 Thread Eric Walker
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 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

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

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Cook
]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor One of the things I noted about the new hotCat is that it seemed to not be affected by the air that would have been present after the powder was loaded. There was no means to pull a vacuum to clean out the air. In thinking about the use and effects

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

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Cook
- Original Message - From: Eric Walker 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

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 Axil Axil
@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 are catalyzed to produce a LENR reaction

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

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Higgins
The left side (in Figure 1) 45-50mm of the reactor are much cooler than the heated core between the insulated supports. This end near the thermocouple plug probably never exceeded 700C. Particles that ended up there did not undergo as much sintering. As I recall the Lugano test particle was

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

2014-10-18 Thread Axil Axil
This idea contributes the belief that the nickel particles are the source of heat production. What you are saying is that the particles caused heat to be generated somewhere else in the reactor, not in or near the nickel particles. How can the surface of the reactor sustain a temperature of 1420C

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

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Cook
and mixed particles of Ni and TiC. Note the increased thermal stability. Bob --- Original Message - From: Bob Higgins To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2014 10:13 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor As someone who has first hand

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

2014-10-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: By the time the IH reactor is operating above 1000C, there are no nickel nanoparticles or nano-features of any kind left - they are all melted into larger agglomerations. Is it possible that the micro-scale features

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

2014-10-18 Thread Axil Axil
...@gmail.com *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Sent:* Saturday, October 18, 2014 10:13 AM *Subject:* Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor As someone who has first hand experience working with micro-scale carbonyl Ni powder, and treating these powders in a thermochemical reactor, I can tell you

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

2014-10-18 Thread Axil Axil
No...This surface nanostructure is a result of the processing of the carbonyl Ni powder precursor which is long gone in the resultant pure nickel particle uses by Rossi. On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Bob Higgins

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

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Cook
absorbed by the Ni particles. This seems unlikely to me. Bob - Original Message - From: Axil Axil To: vortex-l Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2014 11:38 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor This idea contributes the belief that the nickel particles

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

2014-10-18 Thread Alain Sepeda
18, 2014 11:38 AM *Subject:* Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor This idea contributes the belief that the nickel particles are the source of heat production. What you are saying is that the particles caused heat to be generated somewhere else in the reactor, not in or near the nickel

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

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Higgins
What I am saying is that the reaction site it not hotter than its environs. 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]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor

2014-10-18 Thread Axil Axil
@eskimo.com *Sent:* Saturday, October 18, 2014 11:38 AM *Subject:* Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor This idea contributes the belief that the nickel particles are the source of heat production. What you are saying is that the particles caused heat to be generated somewhere else

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

2014-10-18 Thread Axil Axil
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...@gmail.com wrote: What I am saying is that the reaction site it not hotter than its environs. Think about

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

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Higgins
I am sure that there may be a Ni-X alloy that melts at higher temperature than pure Ni. The field is wide open. There is just not enough good concrete data or a theory to say what works and what doesn't. It appears that Rossi has something that works, but this Lugano report provides, once

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

2014-10-18 Thread Axil Axil
The SEI assay on page 45 of the report shows a PURE nickel particle with tubercles that have been unaffected by heat having survived 32 days of destructive temperatures up to 1400C. Lithium 6 is a reaction ash. Lithium 7 is a secret sauce (SS) alkali metal additive, The older versions of Rossi's

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

2014-10-18 Thread Jones Beene
Another remote possibility should be mentioned, if real gain is found in this device… and that would be this: the basis of gain could be only SPP – surface plasmon polaritons. This species may be gainful in itself as it condenses. Electrons would be lost to the Dirac sea via SPP, for instance

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

2014-10-18 Thread Axil Axil
I like it. SPPs only live for a few picoseconds. They are half light and half electron. SPPs need to be vigorously pumped. If fusion feeds SPP creation we should see an increase in electrons as well as heat. As Rossi reported, he sees a large production of electrostatic charge in his reactor,

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

2014-10-18 Thread Jones Beene
From: Axil I like it. SPPs only live for a few picoseconds. They are half light and half electron. SPPs need to be vigorously pumped. If fusion feeds SPP creation we should see an increase in electrons as well as heat. Since this reactor depends on continuous electrical input to

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

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Higgins
It is unlikely that the SAME micro-scale features would re-appear - at least in Rossi's historical carbonyl process Ni particles. The particle shape with the high external surface area is a unique outcome from precipitatation from a highly volatile liquid. As the temperature rises to 500C,

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

2014-10-18 Thread Axil Axil
Fusion must be involved because there is all kinds of transmutations taking place. If the energy came from the vacuum, then no ash would be generated and the reactor will not need a fuel recharge to function. On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: *From:* Axil

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

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Higgins
See my previous reply to Eric. Bare Ni will sinter together into a low porosity bulk at 500C. Coating the Ni particles with the Fe2O3 nanopowder before they ever get hot prevents large scale sintering. The tubercles that Rossi described during growth are micron-scale features. These are not

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

2014-10-18 Thread Axil Axil
Maybe this low temperature sintering particle behavior is the reason why Rossi takes so much time to start the E-Cat going. He needs to get the magic going before the nickel particles are destroyed by heat, On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: It is

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

2014-10-18 Thread Axil Axil
*These do not melt like nanoscale features.* What is the temperature at which these surface features are destroyed? On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:50 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: See my previous reply to Eric. Bare Ni will sinter together into a low porosity bulk at 500C.

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

2014-10-18 Thread Bob Higgins
Magnetism is even less likely the cause at the temperature of the hotCat. It is one thing to ascribe coherent effects at temperatures of 400C (being improbable there), but by the time you get over 1000C, it is hard to imagine being able to maintain any kind of condensed matter alignment that could

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

2014-10-18 Thread Jones Beene
BTW – the beauty of an SPP hypothesis is that - not only is it falsifiable, but the proof or disproof will happen in about 6 days if everything goes well. If the MFMP puts together a “dummy” reactor - and it is even slightly gainful, then of course the mystery will be solved.

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
How do SPPs convey the heat away from the NAE so that the nanoscale is NOT the hottest spot? SPPs normally attenuate at very small scale, and the attenuation is electromagnetic absorption of the lossy plasmon waveguide. If the NAE is the hottest spot in the reactor, then there could never be a

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

2014-10-18 Thread Axil Axil
No radioactive isotopes production is another LENR miracle. On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: BTW – the beauty of an SPP hypothesis is that - not only is it falsifiable, but the proof or disproof will happen in about 6 days if everything goes well. If

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

2014-10-18 Thread Axil Axil
The entire volume of the reactor is a SPP condensate. This condensate acts as one super atom where all its parts have the same temperature. As heat is input into the condensate, all the SPP share in the temperature rise and the temperature of the system goes evenly up as one unit without hot

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

2014-10-18 Thread Jones Beene
From: Bob Higgins How do SPPs convey the heat away from the NAE so that the nanoscale is NOT the hottest spot? SPPs normally attenuate at very small scale, and the attenuation is electromagnetic absorption of the lossy plasmon waveguide. If the NAE is the hottest spot in the reactor,

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

2014-10-18 Thread Jones Beene
One thing worth adding – Rossi is said to use a sintered instead of a fused alumina tube. This could be an important detail in superradiance, since the particle size of the alumina before sintering would influence emissivity. For instance, if the tube was made from 10-11 micron

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

2014-10-18 Thread David Roberson
of fuel mass. Dave -Original Message- From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sat, Oct 18, 2014 10:48 pm Subject: RE: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor One thing worth adding – Rossi is said to use a sintered instead

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

2014-10-18 Thread Jones Beene
From: David Roberson * But what about the conservation of energy? What mass is being depleted in order to release the energy? Electron mass – 511 keV. The Dirac sea of negative energy is the repository in this suggestion - that intense field of the SPP is analogous to being a