From: [email protected] Ø Having titanium hydride as hydrogen carrier may not be so good because the H2 will come to an equilibrium between Ti and Ni. And the H loading will be lower.
Yes, but loading does not matter, and a state of dynamic equilibrium between Ti and Ni is precisely the mechanism which could be gainful in another context (instead of fusion). The parameter of lower loading is “not good” for deuterium and especially Pd-D. Ahern’s replication of Arata is notable for showing that with protium, as opposed to deuterium – there is no valid correlation between loading and thermal gain. There is a correlation with deuterium. Because of the ultra-fast mobility of protons, what is hoped is that there will be a pathway to gain via phase change asymmetry between the titanium, nickel and iron which is boosted by tunneling. Think of nitinol and other phase change anomalies. The underlying source of that gain is not really relevant now, just the proximate cause. Proton mobility is suggested to be an accurate indicator of quantum tunneling and we want to maximize that. When TiH2 along with the filamentary nickel are in the same fuel mix with the iron oxide, the local magnetic field effects from the coil result in moving protons around between titanium, nickel and iron in a way which access Rydberg ionization “hole”. There is an underappreciated phenomenon in water called “proton hopping” which could occur in such a system. This citation has some information on proton hopping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotthuss_mechanism At any rate – this was the underlying rationale for using TiH2 - which thus far is looking like it could be valid since some gain was seen with what appears to be too little TiH2. Hopefully better results will follow. Jones
