On Wednesday 29 September 2004 15:25, Mike Carrell wrote:
> 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.
{How about using that plasma in Dr. Marchese's Black Light Rocket
and revolutionize space travel!} ...already a NIAC funded study once...
Standing Bear just an observation
Thus some kind
> of thermal to electrical converter is needed, with Carnot limitations, and
> thus a higher BLP process energy yield.
>
> Mike Carrell
