On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]> wrote:
If there was any evidence that Mills was producing something other than > resistive plasma heating, *perhaps* the spectrum was some evidence. > This is a question I'm interested in -- (a) for the latest prototype, are there regularly spectra with endpoints orders of magnitude above the 10 eV implied by the 10V arc that is used; and (b) if so, is this evidence of something unusual? On slide 49, we see peaks at around 40 nm, which corresponds to an energy somewhere between 12.4 eV (100 nm) and 124 eV (10 nm). Hopefully this slide is for the device being discussed. Here is an image of the weird non blackbody spectrum that is being converted to a blackbody spectrum (slide 53): http://i.imgur.com/34qkWoI.jpg The image appears to show a sequence of spectra, and I hope I've gotten the earliest one. The smallest wavelength is ~ 180 nm, which corresponds to an energy of less than 12.4 eV (100 nm). So I suppose this part could have been produced by the 10V arc. Even still, Mills provided NO EVIDENCE for excess heat at all - zero, zip, > nada. This doesn't mean he is not realizing excess heat, he simply > provided no evidence for it. > I agree. I did notice this quote from slide 28 in the deck: "SunCell produces plasma power at billions of watts per liter from the formation of hydrinos using H2O as the only source of fuel. The plasma power is directly converted to electrical power by a photovoltaic power converter." Unless there are billions of watts of endotherm during inactive periods of the duty cycle, or something similarly strange, I imagine those billions of watts would add up over time. So we seem to have nominal claim of excess energy. Or am I jumping to conclusions? Here is restatement of the same claim (slide 29): We are sequentially igniting H2O-based solid fuel pellets of one hundred > thousandth of a liter volume that each releases millions of watts of power > at billions of watts per liter power density from the conversion of > hydrogen to hydrinos, a more stable form of hydrogen. The power is in the > form of light that is being converted into electricity by solar cells. The > fuel detonations are concealed by an opaque structural enclosure upon which > the photovoltaics (solar cells) are mounted. The unscreened, non-converted > flashes of power can be seen here. Is there a way to wiggle out of the apparent implications of this claim should it be shown that there is no excess energy? One thing I don't understand is why photovoltaic cells are being used after the tungsten cap has thermalized the light being emitted. Is this more efficient than simply boiling water to drive a steam engine? The slides seem to be designed to impress investors. From the slides and the video I get the impression that BLP are a real outfit, doing real things and iterating on different prototypes. I do not know whether their figures of merit are any good for determining whether they're getting excess energy. Eric
