Mike Carrell wrote:
As far as the gibberish factor re Mills, the same can be said of all
the attempts to find a theory for LENR to stand on.
That is true. If LENR were based on the theories that have devised up
until now, instead of experimental observations, I would not believe
a word of it.
Both are outside of the realm of conventional physics.
I do not think that has been confirmed. Cold fusion might have a
conventional explanation. I don't know about the BLP effect.
Therefore one must pay attention to the experiments, and I don't
think Jed has done this as carefully as with LENR.
No, I have not. Not at all. I have not seen much hands-on information
on BLP, but tons about cold fusion. Also, I have visited labs to cold
fusion experiments in person, and I have spoken with hundreds of cold
fusion researchers, but I have only spoken with Mills a few times,
briefly. I attended a lecture by his co-worker at MIT in 1992. It was
impressive, but there has been no follow-up.
a) The research reactors operate at about 1 Torr and power is needed
to maintainthe vacuum
b)Microwave excited research reactors use an inefficient RF power supply.
c)The gas mixtures are predominantly catalyst, which has to be
recycled or it becomes a consumable
d)Energy output from the reaction is in the deep UV, which is
converted to heat and a wasteful thermal cycle
e)Water is electrolyzed to provide a source on hydrogen
These are internal support items requiring energy before any is left
over for external use. The new reactor has sufficient energy outout
to be self sustaining with water as an external fuel.
I gather this means: The new reactor produces enough heat with enough
Carnot efficiency to run a conventional small steam turbine
generator. (Not that it actually does run a generator, but it could.)
This generator would produce enough electricity to operate the RF
power supply and electrolysis. It would thus be a self-sustaining reaction.
I assume you mean a steam generator rather than, say, a
thermoelectric generator, which is less efficient.
Also, the absolute power output is high enough for a real steam
turbine, not something like a toy that produces a fraction of a watt.
By the way, I own a toy piston steam engine, a 40-year-old version of
the D6 model shown here:
http://www.neatstuff.net/engines/dry-spirit.html
You can hook a toy generator to this.
- Jed
