Did you notice the giant spike in the BLP video? Can this spike (at least in its implications) be "bootstrapped" into something more useful than excess heat?
Maybe. Here is an idea which is based on the possibility that Raney Nickel itself -- when given a positive charge -- will produce energetic below-ground-state hydrinos but not simply for heat; additiionally - it also assumes that Mills is correct about the "hydrino hydride". Robin has a proprietary version of a "hot" nuclear reactor, presumably employing U, which builds on hydrino-tech -- and this concept does also. I do not know the details of Robin's concept, but I'm fairly sure that this is not the same thing. This concept is for a beam-line, i.e. an mildly accelerated beam of hydrinos (the so-called "table-top acceleartor) ... which will cause thorium or U targets to fission or to spall, and that integrated subsystem (beam+traget) will serve as a very low cost makeup-neutron source for a subcritical fission reactor using natural unenriched fuel. AFAIK, R. Mills has not modified this viewpoint on "hydrino hydride" although we do not hear much about this ion any more. This stable-charged species HH is Mills' (misleading) name for (Hy-) which is a proton with one reduced radius orbit electron and one normal orbit electron. Others have commented that this species makes more sense from a QM perspective if both eletrons have the same reduced orbital, but I am not sure if that refined version of HH has been 'borrowed' by RM yet. At any rate, lets say that the HH - "hydrino hydride" - is a stable charged ion and that the hydrino which forms it can be derived rather simply from the "geometric hole" of charged Raney catalyst alone, along with a source of hydrogen (and that this is what has provided the spike which is seen by Jansson in the video). OK - sorry to take so long to 'set the table' for this alternative use for hydrinos, but it is not a simple thing to verbalize for the first time. The idea is that pressurized hydrogen gas would pass through a four-layer arrangemeent (thin layers) composed of: 1) a non-conducting (for electrons) ceramic proton conductor 2) which is sandwiched with a layer of Raney catalyst charged + 3) which will then has a layer of hydrino conducting ceramic or plastic (which is semi-conducting for electrons) 4) and finally through a negatively charged open pore metal which converts the hydrinos into HH. >From there-on: the HH can be accelerated easily, due to its inherent stable >charge, and in a simple RF driven linear accelerator, up to the threshold >enegy for creating fission or spallation of a thorium target. We do not know >how low that threshold would be for a fast hydrino, of course; yet for this >concept to work well - it would need to be low. It is assumed by me now that this threshold will be a much lower energy than for a proton beam, since the high speed hydrino which results when the HH is stripped of the first electron will be poised to occasionally get close to a large nucleus before the second electron is stripped away.These things always reduce to statistical probability. IOW - this situation is impossible to estimate in advance, but the rewards could be immense: think of the CANDU natural U system but as an inherent breeder reactor which does not require heavy water ! and does not need to be refueled often. It could lower the cost of nuclear energy substantially. That would be one way to bootstrap hydrinos from kilowatts to gigawatts. As for cost - Raney nickel is 10 times more costly than uranium; and hydrinos give 100,000 times less energy per reaction (even if that energy from hydrinos is 200 times more than combustion). IOW the hydrino may be very useful in its own right for heating -- but it may be more useful for grid power when bootstrapped into another more energetic 'real hot' system. Jones
