Please permit me to speculate on the mechanism involved in the F&P meltdown.
The palladium melted. Therefore, the temperature reached at least 1554C. Even more impressive, part of the palladium cube vaporized. The temperature reached more than 3000C. In addition, a hole was excavated in the concrete floor. The sand must have been vaporized. That means that the silicon vaporized at a temperature of 3265C. This vaporization temperature is greater than the melting point(1554C) of palladium and the vaporization point of palladium(3000C). Since only a part of the palladium(1CC) was vaporized, this tells me that the reaction was carried primarily in the silicon within the concrete since most of the mass loss was in the concrete. Also, the iron rebar was vaporized at 2862C. The palladium cube arrived at a position inside the concrete crater where the temperature was relatively cool to keep from totally vaporizing under the heat produced by the silicon plasma. The reaction started on the surface of the palladium cube after a long period of surface pitting was generated by long term low level electric arcing. Mizuno uses electric arcing to prepare his LENR active surfaces. Over the months, the surface of the palladium cube reached a critical level of LENR surface preparation to carry a LENR reaction to a point were a positive feedback took hold producing a plasma where the reaction became self sustaining and than gainful. The plasma carried by the palladium cube eventually burned through the lab table(Melamine?) and hit the floor. The reaction they transferred to the silicon in the concrete where it formed nano-particles when the silicon plasma cooled. These nano-particles carried the LENR reaction. The hydrogen loaded in the palladium was long gone after the palladium melted and partially vaporized and could not have been the energy source for the reaction during the final high temperature phase of the meltdown event when the concrete began to burn and vaporize.. On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote: > I am deeply grateful to Russ for this valuable paper > he shared with us. > http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2014/12/the-fleischmann-singularity.html > > The original is splendid. > Thanks, Russ you have saved my day, bad due to vision problems > > Peter > -- > Dr. Peter Gluck > Cluj, Romania > http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com >
