In reply to Jones Beene's message of Fri, 22 Apr 2016 06:17:18 -0700: Hi Jones, [snip] >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.
The problem with this scenario, as I see it, is that in Ti metal the valence electrons go wandering off (which is why it's a metal). I would expect that to completely upset the first ionization energy, so 4 Ti atoms would no longer add to one Hartree (however I could be wrong about that). BTW both Hg and K atoms are also Mills catalysts. K losing 3 electrons, and Hg losing 4. The same problem exists in this case, they lose valence electrons when combined as a metal. However the boiling point of Hg is a very low 356.58°C, so it should be relatively easy to get hold of Hg atoms. Perhaps this explains the use of Hg in ancient "Vimanas"? The boiling point of K is 759.9°C, also well within reach of modern technology, and K isn't toxic like Hg. Both K & Hg are m=4 catalysts. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
