Jones has an interesting idea, but a small coirrection is needed: <snip>
> Well, there are some logical reasons why this is most > difficult to believe. There is no doubt that Mike has been > told this by Mills or his staff, but it is just too hard to > swallow when looking at the thermodynamic issues. If, as > Mills says, the higher energy shrinkage is more energetic - > then why not contain the reactants and get the added > benefits (incredible added benefits) by changing the > parameters in situ. Why waste you most energetic reactant? My answer was my own, not prompted by anyone at BLP, and seemed obvious to me. Earlier experiments -- electrolytic cells, the thermal reactor -- do not permit continuous variation of the operating conditions. I have an impression of a passing remark by someone that the gas phase reaction took months to get right. With that setup it is easy to alter pressure, gas mixture, excitation power and flow rate to explore parameter space in a controllable and repeatable manner. The gas mass drifts through the excitaiton zone. There is plenty of time for multiple H-hydrino and hydrino-hydrino reactions. In the version of the water bath calorimetry experiment performed by Phillips posted on the BLP website, there is a passing remark that the calorimetry indicates that most of the hydrogen in a H-He reaction was converted to H(1/4). Other Phillips experiments with the GEC cell indicate that many such interactions may be occuring. The 'incredible added benefits' are potentially to be had. I thinks Mills & Co. are smart, and that they dwell on ways to enhance the multiple reactions for many reasons. That know-how will keep BLP licensees ahead of the pack in the long run. Energy so released is probably essential in making a "water engine" system which includes the losses of a thermal cycle. While reactions producing H(1/2) release enough energy on an atom-by-atom basis to extract H from H2O, I see no sufficiently efficient process for extracting that energy directly from the plasma. Thus some kind of thermal to electrical converter is needed, with Carnot limitations, and thus a higher BLP process energy yield. Mike Carrell
