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From: "Jones Beene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Banking on BLP?
Ed
I'm confused. I was under the impression that the NaH was the catalyst
required to form the hydrino. If this is true, what is the role of the
Raney nickel?
First - there are two very distinct ways to look at this situation.
It is somewhat logical to believe, as does Mike Carrell, that Mills got
everything right -- and that the energy anomaly he discovered is
explainable based precisely on application his CQM theory, and that the
theory rules, and that no amount of good fortune is present. This is why
Mike constatnly wants people to "study" Mills theory as if it were gospel.
No, Jones, not gospel. I simply want to counter the opposite, that Mills
*can't* [or is it musn't?] be right. Many take a quick look a Mills claim or
paper, and then go off on a tangent, as you have done, looking for an
"explanation" that fits your accustomed world view. I [and I suspect Mills
also] fully expect a firestorm of criticism and search for "explanations" as
the reality of this reaction sets in. Mills may not be entirely correct, but
I have seen enough criticism of SQM to realize it is not a "gospel" to be
worshipped either.
If that is true, then the nickel probably serves only as a proton
conductor and catalyst to remove the proton from the sodium. IOW - those
who are strict BLP advocates cannot imagine the situation where Mills
could have succeeded, though good fortune alone - and found an
experimental anomaly but that it is one that his theory does not explain.
In the paper http://www.blacklightpower.com/papers/WFC101608WebS.pdf ,
equations 23-35, outline the chemical reactions involved. Why assume these
are not necessary and suffcient until one has understood them?
However, that is merely their interpretation, logical as that may seem,
and until more is known - most of us would agree that Mills should be
given the benefit of the doubt.
There is something much simpler. NaH is formed by reactions given from NaOH
coating of the R-Ni and heating. At some point the NaH decomposes, releasing
Na and H atoms in close proximity, whereby Na++ then catalyses the H
producing H[1/3]. There are aspects of this which puzzle me.
Mike Carrell
