The most closely held secret of Rossi's tech is how he produces his fuel. Bos Higgins is on the correct path when he considers a high energy mechanism for producing the special hydrogen form that is the heart of the LENR fuel. From the pictures of ne356 fuel I posted a few days ago, the fuel looked like micro-particles but me356 might be using a number of LENR fuel formates.
I provoked me356 to release the metal grass micrographs that might be metallic hydrogen growing out of the metal lattice. https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fibb.co%2FbCniw5%3AB0XrxGRA3rtQnbu3W_ceX1OQGB8&cuid=2168707 https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fibb.co%2FbMGkb5%3A6oWAZBMWL_1XDLbI2Zu07X7SGLY&cuid=2168707 On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:50 PM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]> wrote: > The photos of ME356's fuel are fascinating. I don't know what to make of > the fractal growth on the carbon sticky tape. I would love to see an EDS > of the fractal growth. Ni crystals do tend to grow when there is > sufficient heat and in the absence of oxygen, but the Ni crystals are > normally spiky spears (as is seen in some of the photos). I can't believe > that the fractal growth is metallic hydrogen - just too far fetched Axil. > > I can speculate about what ME356 does to prepare his fuel. Here are a few > thoughts: > > - The fuel is Ni or Ni alloy wire wound into a coil shape that will > fit into a reactor tube. > > > - From what we have seen, it doesn't seem like ME356's reactor runs a > current through this coil - it is possible, but it is risks short term > burnout limiting the life of the reactor. My guess is that it is just a > coiled up wire fuel inside of a fused silica or ceramic tube that contains > the fuel coil and H2 gas. > > > - ME356 talks of pre-treating his fuel. He says that the longer he > pre-treats the fuel the more active it is in producing LENR. I think the > pre-treatment consists of putting the Ni coil inside a vacuum chamber, that > has been evacuated to less than 1 micron. The wire is heated and cooled > until it stops outgassing. Then the chamber is filled with about 10 torr > of H2, the wire is heated, and the wire or an adjacent Ni electrode is > driven with RF at one of the ISM band frequencies. This will provide some > sputter-like activation of the surface. > > > - After the hot sputter processing, take the coil out and put it into > the reactor tube and heat in H2 for LENR. > > > >
