Most of this came out in 2004, but somehow has been ignored by LENR proponents, not to mention the mainstream of physics. Maybe that oversight is because of one implication, which can be interpreted as this:
LENR –who needs it? :-) Which is to say: LENR is nice, but if one can manufacture ultradense hydrogen (IRH) in bulk for a reasonable cost, then we really do not need LENR per se. The the chemical energy of ultradense hydrogen is sufficient by itself to change the world, without the need for e-cats, hot-cats, Rossi, or anything nuclear. According to Holmlid: since the bonding distance of this species is known, the theoretical value for the chemical energy of that bonding distance (150 pm) is 163 kJ mol-1 (175 MJ kg-1). This is a factor of almost 10 times more than burning hydrogen in oxygen. Thus, IRH may become an important future energy carrier regardless of whether nuclear energy can be extracted or not, since the chemical energy alone is adequate for a paradigm shift. Caveat: a reliable value of the atomic binding energy of ultra-dense hydrogen in bulk is not known, since it has never been produced in bulk (unless in a military or “black R&D program). The cost of producing it is not known either. OTOH, according to Randell Mills, even the less dense hydrino has this high level of chemical energy. Moreover, according to Holmlid, ultradense hydrogen can be made using low pressure contact with a common petrochemical catalyst at low temperature. How costly could it be? Ya’ gotta think, if our military industrial complex is not completely asleep at the wheel, then somewhere, in some secret facility in some god-forsaken desert, there are hundreds of little reactors managed by robots making IRH by the ton. Ok, ok. Maybe that is the plot of the sequel to “Chain Reaction” …
