We are all grateful to Ed Storms and Kiva Labs for analyzing the sintered Ni ash of the MFMP Bang! experiment. Those images are from the sintered Ni, molded int o a rod by the ID of the reaction tube. There is woefully insufficient evidence that the Bang! experiment produced any LENR. However, when it exploded, it was in the right temperature range to begin seeing LENR, so the "ash" per se is really just a sample of the conditions at the temperature and pressure where Parkhomov (and Lugano) began to see LENR occur.
Perhaps LENR would have been observed if the explosion had not occurred. The tube used was substantially weaker than what is used by Parkhomov because it is hard to find the closed-one-end tubes having a thick alumina wall. Bang! was just a first experiment. It will be run again, perhaps with a smaller charge of LiAlH4 to reduce the pressure somewhat. We have also determined that the Parkhomov tubes are probably mullite which is only about 50% alumina (and the rest are metal silicates). This may be the reason that his cement formulation worked OK on his tubes and didn't work well at all on the high alumina (>99.5% alumina) tubes used by Alan Goldwater who attempted so seal some with Parkhomov's formula. On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Since the SEM images of the fuel >> >> >> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5Pc25a4cOM2fllFSWpFNVJoUlIxbERhRTE2M2FTY0s3TU9sZ2FsVG5wMGdodlE2ZW1JMVE&usp=sharing >> > > Thank you, Bob. (And thanks to Ed Storms.) > > Am I correct in understanding that these images were provided by Ed in > connection with the MFMP Bang! experiment? > > I have not been following the details of the Bang! experiment closely. I > gather there is a question that there might have been something anomalous > that happened. Am I correct in understanding that this question goes back > primarily to the GM counter clicks that were observed? > > Eric > >
