--- Robin van Spaandonk wrote: > >http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978nasa.reptV....L
> Note that when they recycle the Argon, they also recycle any hydrinos that were created in the engine and still happen to be loose (i.e. not bound to the water). Yes, as I was about to say .... <g>.... hydrinos are likely to be involved but as an "agent" for an Auger cascade methodology, and perhaps not in the way you are suggesting, based on Mills' published experiments. As mentioned in previous postings - If hydrinos are involved, and that is a strong possibility, it would seem to be more likely in the form of the hypothetical but ubiquitous metastable species 39K+Hy --> 40Ar which could be an ocean-derived primordial constituent of air... which is the result of the capture of solar hydrinos over geologic time by potassium - and is almost indistinguishable from normal argon - except for the proven "efficient radiation" phenomenon. Thankfully we have this body of hard-science results on this particualr phenomena, which are totally independent of Mills. In this situation then, the excess energy which shows up is probably not related to continuing "shrinkage" at all - so the Millsean stuff is out the window (except for the "original" solar hydrino itself)- as at any rate it would require too much energy input in the form of ionization which is simply not present in hydrogen combustion, even at the extremes of the Maxwellian energy distribution. Instead, the excess energy is related to repeatable Auger cascades, initiated by the imposed stress (or hydrogen combustion) on the primordial hyrino in the atomic k-shell (captured) - which is easily disrupted because of its enormous comparative mass - and with the Auger cascade energy being then replenished by ZPE - as would be expected to happen in the Puthoff role of ZPE sustaining electron orbitals at preferred (quantum) levels - which is its main function in nature. Following this disruption in the Argon k-shell, the hydrino is recaptured (or never really leaves) and the process is repeatable until gradually the hydrinos are lost and escape the engine, due to their small size. Argon would need to be "exchanged" periodically in such an engine with a fresh supply. Only a few ppm of Argon need to be of this metastable variety, in order for this hypothetical scenario to play out. Bottom line: IMHO what we have in this and in other active-Argon situations is a ZPE phenomenon, not a hydrogen-shrinkage phenomenon- except in the sense of a primordial species (containing a solar-hydrino) acting as an agent for an Auger cascade. Best part of this scenario - falsifiability. Argon Auger cascades have a spectral signature which is so recognizable that it cannot be denied, if demonstrated. And there is a sound (to me) theoretical basis for this whole complicated scenario, including Puthoff's ZPE role, which is absent from most of the Mills' (more controversial) assumptions. Jones
