Piantelli is correct in principle if not in detail. The ionization process inside the Ni/H reactor is all pervasive and is not limited to just hydrogen. In Piantelli's reactor, not only hydrogen is ionized but also a significant amount of nickel located on the surface of his bars.
The energy for this ionization comes from the heat that initiates the LENR reaction during reaction startup. The dipole vibration starts out weakly across a broad front of many elements and compounds but it accumulates over the hours and the energy contained in the dipoles steadily increases in a latter like amplification process as short lived attosecond long SPPs converts heat energy into dipole motion. The SPP process is the bridge between blackbody heat energy radiation to eventually reach heavy relativistic electron XUV energy levels. With each short lifetime of the SPP adding just a little more energy to the dipole vibration. The dipole's energy starts out in the infrared energy range, it gradually builds into untranslated and then into extreme ultraviolet and mild x-ray range. A general condition of dipole ionization is reached where the vast majority of nickel and hydrogen atoms are vibrating in sync at very short optical wavelengths. When sufficient dipole energy is cashed in the energy savings bank, it eventually begins to accumulate interest aplenty in energy gain from the nuclear processes that it catalyzes. In the Rossi type reactor, not only nickel and hydrogen is ionized, but also the secret sauce elements lithium and aluminum join the dipole vibration party. On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> One would think that it ought to be possible to significantly reduce the >> weight >> of the first stage of a rocket by using jet engines iso rocket engines. >> That way >> you save the weight of the Oxygen (by far the heaviest component), by >> using >> environmental air. > > > Yup. That's called an air-launched rocket. The SpaceShipOne is an example. > > I guess the first air-launched rocket was the X-1, launched from a B-29 > bomber. They also managed to take off from the ground once, but it was > designed to be air-launched. > > A space elevator would have many advantages but with the early models it > would take a long time to reach the geosynchronous terminal. Days or weeks. > It might be possible to slowly send a small rocket up a few hundred > kilometers, well above the atmosphere, drop it, and have it space-launch > from there to make a quick trip to the terminal, in a few hours. I think > this would take less fuel than going through the atmosphere. I wouldn't > want to ride in it! > > - Jed > >
