I don't believe that nickel or titanium can be loaded with hydrogen. Is such loading even possible?
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 9:02 PM, CB Sites <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting video and reference Jack. I did one LENR experiment with > Nitjnol that may be worth repeating. My system didn't work out to well but > I only tried once. The idea was to use electrolysis to load the Nitenol > wth D+ and then heat the nitinol to contract forcing the lattice deuterium > to fuse. It looks like it gets brittle but I was using a very very small > sample. I wonder if it would work with a larger sample, or perhaps another > type of shape memory metal. > > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Another way that shape memory materials might be used in a LENR reactor >> is to form Micro particles out of high temperature shape memory material >> such as Ti–50(Pt,Ir) or Nitinol (50Ni 50Ti). >> >> At reactor temperatures lower than the operating temperature setpoint, >> the shape memory micro particle would be shape set to be covered with LENR >> activating nanostructure like tubercles. But when the temperature increased >> beyond that setpoint temperature, the topology of the micro-particle would >> change so that the tubercles would recede and then disappear. >> >> As the LENR reaction lost strength as a reaction to the removal via shape >> memory adjustment of the tubercle structures from the surface of the >> micro-particles, the operating temperature of the reactor would naturally >> drop below the operational temperature set-point, the tubercles would >> reappear once again as the shape memory surface of the micro-particles >> would recover its original shape. >> >> In response to the lower temperature and the resultant reappearance of >> the tubercle surface, the Ni/H LENR reactor would once again increase in >> temperature due to reappearance of the tubercles on the surface of the >> micro-particles. >> >> In this simple an uncomlicated way under analog control, the Ni/H reactor >> would automatically maintain in a failsafe and totally reliable manor a >> constant thermostatically controlled operating temperature. >> >> >> >> >

