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From: "Robin van Spaandonk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Regarding Rowan's work:
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From their report, I got the impression that their results were minimal at
best.
This doesn't surprise me, as they used neon as the catalyst. They could
hardly
have made a worse choice, and I told them so. In reply they said that they
did
this in consultation with BLP. Reading between the lines, I got the
impression
that Mills had just discovered that neon could work as a catalyst, and was
happy
to have someone else pay the expense of an experiment to see how well it
worked.
The ionization energy of Ne+ is 40.962 eV. At the time Mills tried to cobble
together an explanation where this matched the total energy lost by H in
dropping to the H[n=1/2] (which it does - almost), however that contradicts
his
own theory where the energy hole has to be a multiple of 27.2 eV.
It makes much more sense that neon only works as a catalyst in a three body
reaction:-
Ne+ + Ne+ + H =====> Ne++ + Ne++ + H[n=1/4]
(2 * 40.962 = 81.924, which is close to the m=3 catalyst value - 81.6 eV).
However this reaction is a poor choice for several reasons:-
1) The first ionization energy of Ne is 21.5645 eV, which is higher than
that of
Hydrogen, so Ne+ is continually being reduced to Ne by the Hydrogen, which
makes
Ne+ (the catalyst ion) scarce in the plasma.
2) It's a three body reaction, which means that you need two of those scarce
Ne+
ions concurrently to make it work.
3) When you do get two Ne+ ions together with an H atom, one of them is more
likely to steal an electron from the H atom, than the pair is to trigger
shrinkage.
MC: Robin makes good points, and I have no more details than I have stated.
Recent careful perusal of Mills' text suggests that the essence is the
multiples of 27.2 eV, by any means, and allowing some contrilbution from
kenetic energy. Multiple bodies and multiple states of ionization can all
"work". This suggests that rt catalysis is a natural phenomenon to be found
wherever possible if you know how and where to look. Arguably, hydrino
reactions may the source of excess heat in LENR experiments.
MC: As I dig into the new material on the BLP website, it looks as Mills is
finally positioned for commercial development. His 'solid' fuel when heated
releases H and K3+, apprently in mutual proximity. The rt catalysis yields
H(1/4) with a potential of 435 eV instead of 27.2 eV. This gives an energy
surplus to regenerate the catalyst, electrolyze water, and run a steam
turbine.
Mike Carrell
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/
Competition (capitalism) provides the motivation,
Cooperation (communism) provides the means.
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