In reply to Jones Beene's message of Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:03:21 -0700 (PDT): Hi, [snip] >One more 'flash from the past' on Robin's mention of an energy "sink" being >"like a hole in the ground." (how quickly we forget) > >This might also serve as some insight wrt Ed's comment. > > >There is a geometric dimension to a 27.2 eV 'hole' if one wishes to consider >the wavelength of UV photon radiation at this level. > >Methinks it is about 46 nm - which is well within the capability of >micro-lithography at chip labs these days. > >Could it be that the Raney nickel being used was chosen, inadvertently or >specifically - to have an average pore size near this dimension (46 nm) ?
If I'm not mistaken, harmonics and sub-harmonics may work too, so a variety of hole sizes could work. > >If so, then this makes a lot more sense as a "package" or as a system which >can be scaled up - as this gives you the first level of 'shrinkage' very >"cheaply" so to speak ... simply apply a positive charge to a geometric hole >instead of 'manufacturing' one. And it could well be that after the first >redundant level has been reached without recourse to adding massive amounts of >energy, that everything works much smoother thereafter. If this works at all, the I see no reason why it should be restricted to only the first level of shrinkage. However as the harmonic number increases, the reaction may become less likely. > >The really interesting thing, from the perspective of LENR is that if it a >geometric "hole" of this size (46 nm) works for protium, then it should also >work for deuterium and could possibly increase the reaction rate when there is >Pd in there instead of NaH. Why? > >Well for one thing - since the atomic volume of the deuteron is reduced by a >factor of 8 (the cube of halving the diameter) then as much as 8 times more >deuterium should fit into a Pd matrix (than normal) and there is evidence that >higher loading is more active. Perhaps slightly more to the point, it would allow multiple D's to occupy a single site in the lattice. > >This might also favor titanium instead of Pd as the active matrix - since its >lower loading level would not be the limiting factor it is now, and since it >is much cheaper. Plus - it is also possible that the Raney metal alone will be >very active with deuterium. Another question is, what happens when D is substituted for H in Mills' reactor? (Don't try this without adequate shielding and a neutron detector). > >Mills may have opened a Pandora's box of LENR sectrets. > >Jones Regards, Robin van Spaandonk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
