There is no scientific evidence that using a wide size range of nickel
powder is important or even helpful and there is good evidence that it
is not important at all.
Rossi may say this in his patent ... i.e. that it is important - but
Rossi could not provide IH with nickel which worked -- and that is why
we have this lawsuit going on.
The one and only nickel-hydrogen experiment of the past 28 years which
is guaranteed to have worked beyond any reasonable doubt is the
Thermacore runaway experiment in 1996 which Brian Ahern will be trying
to replicate this month.
Other experiments in the past did work, no argument there - but the
proof of a melted stainless steel pressure vessel - in Thermacore's
experiment and the high quality of their corporate R&D team makes their
result as close to absolute proof of massive thermal gain as is
possible, given the vagaries of calorimetry.
That certainty of the end result is one of the main reasons Ahern is
trying to replicate. The problem of course is that with success you end
up with a melted mass of steel and this makes finding a funder for the
effort very difficult. You have one swing of the bat and must hit a home
run or you lose the game.
BTW - Thermacore used a small mesh nickel powder - not nano or
nano-structured.
However, it was Sherritt nickel, which is special in its own way.
On 2/6/2017 11:14 AM, Axil Axil wrote:
All commercially available (COTS) nickel powder comes in batches in a
very limited size range. For example, we can buy 10 nanometer powder
up to 10 micron powder. I have not seen a COTS powder come in a wide
mixture of sizes. In LENR, using the widest range of sized in nickel
powder is important.
In his patent, Rossi says that he preprocesses the COTS powder so that
the COTS powder is transformed into a wide mix of sizes from 1 to 100
microns. It is my estimation that many smaller sizes are produced by
this sintering based preprocessing but Rossi has never felt the
inclination of documenting the very smallest particle fragments..
This randomization of nickel powder sizes is important because of the
way nanoplasmonics works.
All open Rossi replications use COTS powder characterized by a very
limited size range and I believe that this is way most replication
that we know of have limited success.
There is a rule in nanoplasmonics that the most power is produced by a
wide size distribution in the size of the nickel particles. In other
words, a mixture of a very small particle and a very large particle
will produce the most EMF power.
If a replicator wants to see good results, they are well advised to
use the widest sized nickel particle mix.
For background on how particles work in nanoplasmonics, see
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1405/1405.1657.pdf
Plasmonics with a twist: taming optical tornadoes on the nanoscale
On page 15, the details about particle size range is discussed:
12.5. Molding the river of light in vortex nanogear transmissions
