What if a coat of graphite was applied to the outside of the HotCat as a hydrogen barrier during its fabrication and then a final thin veneer coat of alumina cement completes the fabrication by covering the graphite and forming the heat radiating fin structure.
The hydrogen could permeate throughout the alumina body of the remote not being confined until the hydrogen hit the graphite coat on the outside of the HotCat. This method of fabrication would allow hydrogen to get into all of the porous alumina structure throughout the entire HotCat reactor. This would allow much more Oxygen 17 by many orders of magnitude to be made available to the nuclear reaction under discussion. On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:08 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: > In reply to Eric Walker's message of Fri, 2 Jan 2015 23:36:57 -0800: > Hi, > [snip] > >Have I missed something important? > > > >Eric > > Something else I just thought of: > > 17O+6Li => 16O + 7Li + 3.107 MeV > > This reaction would provide a path for Li7 to be regenerated from O17 in > the > Al2O3. > > The same mechanism that enabled the transfer of a neutron from Li to Ni > could > also enable this regeneration transfer. > > 0.037% of O is O17, so 450 gm of Al2O3 would contain about 3E21 O17 atoms > allowing for the regeneration of another 3E21 Li7 atoms. > > This process would, optimistically, quadruple the amount of Li7 available, > and > also add considerable energy to the process. > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
