RE: [Vo]:Re: LENR on a ChipJones-- An additional idea regarding control is the use of temperature to create phonic resonances, necessary for the coupling to the electron orbital spin. If this were so, a negative temperature coeff. would be present to stop a runaway reaction, although not as quickly as a loss of the intense B field associated with SSP decay.
A ssm Rossi talks about may be consistent with a positive feed back mechanism from the SSP population with overlapping B fields which manage to allow new SSP’s to form before all SSP’s have decayed. The negative temperature coeff. of the system maintains a maximum population of SSP’s and hence a maximum energy conversion rate. A good dynamics and control program used by fission reactor designers could be useful in LENR design (LENR+ per Peter’s terminology I think). Bob Cook From: Bob Cook Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 8:57 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:Re: LENR on a Chip Jones- I have had the same concern about the higher temperature coupling. However, I have always thought that the B field was the key—particularly in the Pd system with its high magnetic susceptibility. As you point out it may be that the ordering that comes about at low temperatures can occur at higher temperatures in big magnetic fields—the local B field resulting from a SSP or induced by an H field on a highly magnetic material. The MFMP experiments included such an H field on the Pd electrode. The problem with a permanent magnet as the source of the driving magnetic field is the lack of control. It may be that a variable B field is necessary to create the necessary resonances for spin coupling—and to kill the resonance for controlling the reaction rate. The many explosive reactions that have been reported in LENR experiments may have happened as a result of sustained resonant conditions. The transient nature of SSP’s may be what is necessary to stop a reaction, and a modest B field is what is necessary to let a SSP develop in the first place. Thus, the time constant for a LENR reaction would be associated with the lifetime of a SSP. This sounds a little like Rossi’s cat and mouse relationship. Bob Cook From: Jones Beene Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 8:17 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:Re: LENR on a Chip From: Bob Cook Ø Ø The following is a link to a description of a nucleus-electron spin couple. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-02/uob-hea021114.php Bob, It is nice to know that this kind of coupling is proved, but don’t you hate studies where the desired effect is only possible at extremely low temperatures - so low in fact, that there is little hope of pushing it higher: “At temperatures above 10 kelvin, the quantum wires … were not ordered. However, when the researchers used liquid helium to cool the wires to a temperature below 100 millikelvin….” Whoa. There are only a handful of Labs in the world that can do this. Since – to make the spin coupling effect useful as a portable power supply – which essentially means: to bypass the thermal cycle - we are looking for something which can happen at 300-500 kelvin, is there any chance of getting ordered spin under far different circumstances ? Maybe. I think it depends on whether an extreme magnetic field would substitute for low temperature. There are reasons to suggest a high field (multi-T) would substitute. When you think about it, either cryogenics or high field would “lock-in” polarization, which is what we want. But to make magnetism work in a small portable device, it would need to be a high field from a permanent magnet instead of an electromagnet and these only go to about 1 T today using NIB. And also, to make that 5 T field useful in a smart phone, it would have to be shielded … wow … daunting challenge. Lot of work to be done … but the one “enabling technology” which would make portable LENR (1 watt level) possible within a short time horizon, and at the same time could make the process independent of the thermal cycle, is HTSC. High Temperature Superconductivity. This could be the enabler allowing one to go from nuclear spin anomalies – all the way to useful electrical current, without the problems of heat conversion. HTSC – at least for use in a commercial setting, is a goal which has proved almost as elusive as LENR. Jones
