In reply to Axil Axil's message of Mon, 5 Jan 2015 17:58:58 -0500: Hi, [snip]
Providing that a graphite coat would actually perform this function, it could be a good idea. >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. Note that in my calculations here below, I already assumed that all of the O17 in the Alumina was used. That's why I said it was optimistic. > >On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:08 PM, <[email protected]> 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 >> >> Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
