Dale Basgall suggests that gadolinium expands when exposed to a magnetic field and contacts when the field is removed. In our past discussions, he was thinking you could create a rapidly oscillating pressure in the cell using some gadolinium and EM pulses.
We have also long thought nitinol may have some application to LENR because of the mechanical shifts in the metal lattice when heated and cooled (and associated effects on hydrogen loaded into the lattice). An interesting application of gadolinium based on its magnetocaloric properties (refrigeration). http://www.eurekalert.org/features/doe/2001-11/dl-mrs062802.php On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 8:21 PM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > A shape memory alloy can operate at very high temperatures in excess of > that produced by the dog bone. It may the possible to build a mechanical > device that produces a sharp pressure increase in the hydrogen gas to > activate increased LENR reactivity through nanoparticle creation via > supercritical pressure induced gas nucleation. > > We might design a mechanical muscle that rapidly contracts added by > leverage to produce the pressure wave then relaxes slowly to make the next > pressure cycle possible. > > Shape memory acts in a limited temperature range. A small electric current > can heat the shape sensitive material above its transition point to > activate an explosive pressure pulse much in the way that the mantis shrimp > uses contracting mussel power to produces cavitation bubbles to kill its > prey. > > These smashers deliver the fastest punch of any animal > <http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2008/07/19/the-mantis-shrimp-has-the-worlds-fastest-punch/>. > As the club unfurls, its acceleration is 10,000 times greater than gravity. > Moving *through water*, it reaches a top speed of 50 miles per hour. It > creates a pressure wave that boils the water in front of it, creating > flashes of light (shrimpoluminescene > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoluminescence> – no, really) and immensely > destructive bubbles <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavitation>. The club > reaches its target in just three thousandths of a second, and strikes with > the force of a rifle bullet. > > We just need to put a few of the pieces together. > > >
