I believe Naudins' and Mollers' concept of H2-H1 oscillation inside a reactor with a heated tungsten filament is correct but the source of disassociation energy is ultimately based on Casimir geometry which can take the form of catalytic or pyrophoric material such as finely divided catalyst metals like Aratas' Pd nano powders or the pores in Mills' Rayney Nickel. IMHO The MAHG project should have used tungsten nano powders instead of just a wire filament to increase both the surface area and catalytic action on the hydrogen flowing through. Further they should have pursued a different proof by slowly reducing the current to the heating element while increasing the circulation and ratio of hydrogen to inert gas through the reactor. The brief thermal spike in the Rowan confirmations using Rayney Nickel suggests the catalyst can poison itself if allowed to run away. Moller and Naudin's use of circulation in the MAHG process was inspired -not only for heat exchange but like Haisch , Moddel, Naudts and even Mills, I believe that hydrogen takes on relativistic states inversely to the scale of Casimir geometry. The Casimir geometries inside and between catalyst powders remain fixed but gas molecules have random relative motion with respect to these geometries. This relative motion is greatly multiplied by a circulation pump such as that used in the MAHG design and avoids gas becoming trapped in the voids and defects of the catalysts (possibly leaching out over days and weeks in a "life after death" scenario). I also think the pulse width modulation of the heater current through the filament helps to disassociate "catalyzed" h2 at a discount. My posit is that the covalent bond opposes these changes to the atomic orbitals and will repel the molecule away from areas with different energy densities due to changes in Casimir geometry. If the PWM pulse strikes the molecule before the stress between the covalent bond and it's atom is relieved then the disassociation energy required is reduced by the amount of stress already on the bond. IMHO when the sudden thermal spike occurs in the Rowan confirmations it was because the discount to disassociating "catalyzed" h2 due to stressed covalent bonds made disassociation cheaper than the energy release when the atoms fall back to their h2 state. This is not a violation of Conservation Of Energy but rather an exception to the rule that you cannot rectify the chaotic motion of gas atoms based on HUP. IMHO the covalent bond of h2 acts as an accumulator for this energy in a narrow band of temperatures near disassociation that will be a challenge for thermal engineering to exploit. Animation of atomic hydrogen influenced by catalyst <http://www.byzipp.com/sun30.swf>
A Science Daily article from Sept 28 th 2010 "Nanocatalyst Is a Gas<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100920123908.htm>" reveals that tungsten oxide nano particles with inert zirconia as an insulating support structure can result in a 5 fold increase in catalytic action when you maximize the amount of these nano particles on the support structure without letting them touch. This research was funded to increase the octane in liquid gasoline but one would expect this effect to be stronger in a gas medium where the London Forces between nano particles are less obstructed by the widely distributed gas atoms as opposed to tightly bound liquid molecules. The research reaffirms the fundamental nature of catalytic action to increase with the amount of separated surface areas inverse to the separation space . a 2009 paper, "Pinpointing catalytic reactions on carbon nanotubes<http://www.physorg.com/news159199255.html> ", by Peng Chen et all from Cornell Univercity, researchers discovered that catalytic action only occurs when this nano geometry CHANGES at the openings and defects of a nanotube. Although packing geometry of nanoparticles can produce strong catalytic action (change in Casimir force) it seems that, IMHO, the rapidity and degree of change in force due to particle shapes may become more important than just the proximity. Similar to the smooth unbroken nanotube walls in the Cornell study where no catalytic action can occur the steadily changing geometry of perfectly round nano spheres would actually produce a minimal catalytic force compared to nano particles with rough dynamic surfaces. Local CHANGES in the separation distance between nano particles with rough surfaces would occur more rapidly producing greater catalytic action. Catalytic action is also effected by use of insulating materials such as zeolites which add and subtract from the dispersion forces between surface areas and can alter the packing density of the nano powders. IMHO it is these properties of packing geometry shape and density which are reflected in the use and design of real and synthetic skeletal catalysts used by Mills in the Black Light Process, Haisch and Model in their layered synthetic catalyst. Aratas' Pd nano particles and Mollers' tungsten filament in the atomic hydrogen generator. Pyrophoric action sometimes occurs when metals are finely divided into nano powders through filing in a ball mill or even leaching out softer metals from a parent alloy like Rayney Nickel. Pyrophoric action is similar to the 5x catalytic action discussed in the Science Daily report except more pronounced and in an oxygen rich environment can lead to combustion that eventually destroys the geometry by melting the surface areas together or at least forms cat whiskers to reduce the force.
