Jones— I too reviewed the SRI report. The first thing I looked for was a relief valve.
There was none. As you point a poor design. The report was not very positive about the cause of the explosion. I concluded the SRI report indicated they did not know the cause with certainty. Bob Cook m: Jones Beene Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2017 9:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:Nickel powder size is important Well, bringing up the SRI fatality is certainly a downer ... but lets face it - any hydrogen gas experiment is almost guaranteed to proceed to an explosion when ... as the Paper says: " the cell was pressurized with about 30 atm of stoichiometric gas (deuterium/ oxygen) the morning of January 2" WOW ! That amount of explosive gas will cause a major explosion with almost complete certainty, but it does not address the lack of a pressure release valve. This kind of cell is probably rated to no more than 5 atm. There have been many deaths associated with trying to store stoichiometric HHO gas (hydrogen/ oxygen) for automotive use - as many as four fatalities in SoCal (Simi Valley) which used to be a center for HHO research by underqualified experimenters. They never seemed to get it. You do not need a spark to ignite this gas - the occasional cosmic ray is probably sufficient with pure hydrogen and oxygen mixed together under pressure. Rothwell states that SRI blames "the malfunction of fail-safe safety devices" however, in my reading I find no reference to the existence of a basic pressure release valve. None at all. This is most bizarre, and maybe I missed it but the drawing of the cell does not show one either, and from what I can tell they spend a lot of time talking about the failure of the recombiner, but there is no pressure release valve mentioned. That is a major shortcoming of the design. Pressure release valves almost never fail and when they do it is in the open position. Also note that in their recommendations for future safety - they do NOT MENTION ADDING A PRESSURE RELEASE VALVE. Rothwell also states: "it had nothing to do with the size of the cathode." My comment: No one can possibly know that from this document - since they do not mention the size or mass of the cathode. An abnormally large cathode would seem to increase storage potential of reactant, but the image seems to show small wire cathodes... however, note that the anodes (Pd Cylindrical Anodes) are considerably larger than the cathode in the drawing. This could be relevant in the event that Randell Mills is correct about hydrino hydride (deuterino deuteride) which he claims has residual negative charge from two very close orbitals, and would collect in the anode, not the cathode. See: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/IkegamiHthirdinter.pdf#page=147
