Granted that an autocatalytic reaction is possible, several more facts have to be considered.
1. First of all, a destructive explosion occurs as a shock wave that is suddenly formed by release of energy and gas. A slow release of energy that does not produce a shock wave will dissipate without shattering the vessel, unless a pressure in excess of the bust strength of the container is maintained for a significant time, say several seconds. At which time, the container will separate at its weakest point, rather than shatter. Glass usually is found in pieces after such an event because the few large parts shatter upon hitting the nearest hard object.
2. Normal explosives form a shock wave because they produce a greater volume of gas than they initially occupy. The moving shock wave causes the chemical reaction (decomposition) within its region and grows in strength. For example, a natural gas explosion results in the reaction
2CH4 + 5O2 = 2CO + 8H2O where 7 moles of gas turns into 10 moles.
In contrast, the 2H2 + O2 = 2H2O reaction actually shrinks in volume, from 3 to 2 moles. The shock wave is very brief and is only maintained by the expanded volume resulting from heating the gas.
Even if the H = H* reaction were to occur, the energy has to go somewhere. Presumably, the energy goes into the O-- ion, which is a catalyst. As a result, the normal H2+O2 reaction energy is augmented by a small contribution from hydrino formation. This causes the normal shock wave to be sufficiently strong to break the container.
How does this sound?
Ed
Jones Beene wrote:
Hi Ed,
I suggest several facts must be kept in mind when
proposing the hydrino
explanation.
1. Energy is only released when hydrinos are formed, not
when
accumulated hydrinos are returned to "normal".
That, of course, is part of Mills' explanation. But we should keep in mind two things:
1) that he could very easily have discovered the process; but yet he still got many of the details in his theory wrong, or half-right.
2) there could be an autocatalytic stage, following build-up of hydrinos over time.
Some of us have been saying for some time that it appears from analyzing many of the past results, that the first few redundant ground states of hydrino formation (at least the first) could be endothermic, not exothermic.
Moreover, If at a certain stage in the ongoing process, the shrinkage below ground state does continue and becomes atuocatalytic - all the way down to n = 1/137 then of course those last 100+ steps would shed tremendous energy very rapidly. Had Mizuno been using a G-M monitor at the time, there would have been a big spike at the time of the explosion, as the lower stages are all soft x-rays, in theory.
Jones
