To the best of my understanding, titanium is not covered in Rossi's patent for the hot cat.
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Bob Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > Jones and Robin-- > > Rossi as said today on his blog that he uses Ti in his Quark-x device. > > Bob Cook > > -----Original Message----- From: Jones Beene > Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 6:17 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Vo]:Titanium/Hematite combined catalyst for low temperature > > Hi Robin, > > You misunderstand. > > I am not trying to explain of validate Mills version of titanium as a > hydrino catalyst. He clearly got it wrong for this element, at least for > any parameters below plasma conditions. There is no way on earth that his > theory can explain the results I mentioned from Professor Dash and the > others, who found that Ti was more active than palladium in his experiments > which were at ambient. Of course, one could say that titanium was active > for > another reason besides f/H but that goes against common sense. As does the > suggestion that Dash missed another active catalyst at work or that he was > doing "cold fusion" which automatically negates a fractional hydrogen > pathway. > > My effort was aimed at showing a possible way of using the most intuitive > part of Mills theory (the Rydberg/Hartree values) in a revised version, not > Mills version - which can show that titanium is indeed the one and only > catalyst which can work at the lowest possible temperature, due to its low > ionization multiple of the first electron. This is not anti-Mills so much > as > it is Mills-inspired. It involves multibody reactions, as the tradeoff. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 3:28 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Titanium/Hematite combined catalyst for low temperature > > In reply to Jones Beene's message: > Hi, > [snip] > >> Back to the CQM theory. The catalytic hole at 190 eV is next to >> impossible to achieve without a plasma, even as a transient state in the >> > hottest glow tube, so it would seem that Mills’ theory is irrelevant… but, > hold on … let’s consider a special type of multibody reaction that would > only work at moderate temperature. Turns out that titanium has a first > ionization potential at 6.8 eV which is a quarter of the Rydberg (Hartree) > energy, and is the only transition metal to have such a value, meaning that > on paper, four titanium atoms operating together would express an > alternative to the Mills catalytic “hole.” Multibody reactions would be > unlikely in gas or plasma phase, or at high temperature but in a FCC > crystal > structure with 14 atoms of Ti, we have a stable solid phase structure where > it should be possible (on a regular basis - thousands of times per second) > to have 4 electrons temporarily displaced - enough to create the required > catalytic window- not as Mills suggests, but in an effective alternative so > long as the hydrogen can be retained in the matrix (requiring low > temperature). This multibody route can explain the comment of Dash that > titanium is more active than palladium for gain. > > 1) When metal atoms combine in a lattice the energy levels of the valence > electrons change, so they no longer add to 190 eV. You may have more luck > using the work function of the metal (which will be influenced by > "contaminants"). > > 2) The catalytic hole is an absorption hole, IOW Ti will accept 190 eV from > H as the H shrinks, with Ti losing the first 5 of it's electrons as a > result. It's as though the H "boils off" the Ti electrons. > > 3) Getting hold of atomic Ti may mean at least using Ti vapor. The boiling > point of Ti is 3287°C. Although alternatively you could use electrolysis > where Ti is formed from a salt at the cathode, one atom at a time. The > problem here however is that cathodes need to be conducting, i.e. usually > metallic so the newly minted Ti atoms are going to join the lattice, > implying a very short or even non-existent window for a shrinkage reaction > to take place. (Carbon cathode > perhaps?) > > 4) The energy released by each H atom shrinking 7 levels in one go would be > 856.674 eV, of which 190 eV is used to ionize the Ti (and later released as > the Ti reclaims it's missing electrons). > > 5) I suspect that the importance of Ti for LENR is more likely to be that > it > is a spillover catalyst. > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
