Horace Heffner writes,
> An N=(1/2) Hy2 molecule should have atoms with about half the radius of > hydrogen molecule atoms... or 1/4 in Robin's version... > I expect the magnetic binding would be more of an electron shell thing, a van > der Waals force which is much larger due to the reduction in scale .... thus > would about 16 times as large. ...or more (in fact 64x has a nice ring to it from the standpoint of forming hydrogen allotropes) > I think it [small size] would be a huge problem ... as it would diffuse > through glass or metal very rapidly. Unless, of course, it became 'bound' fairly tightly beforehand, that is: before it had the opportunity to diffuse. Going back to the evidence of mass 5 seen in BG - Brown's gas - this makes me think even more so - that what could be happening is something akin to quick formation of the hydrogen allotrope of mass 5 using various different techniques. This allotrope would consist of two normal H2 atoms which are bound together by a single hydrino at a moderate IP. This would be bad for Mills in a way - since it would "freeze" his reactants rather quickly - and his plasmas are VERY THIN to begin with, so they would essentially go inactive long before they should- due to the allotrope forming - and that may very well be the precise reason why he has failed to get a prototype going previously. Note also even with his latest experiment there is no claimed long term continuity. Why then - you might ask - does his "condensable" show up in the MS as "pure hydrogen" and not mass 5. My answer is that it might be related to the calibration and the kind of MS used. Perhaps the "A5" (two normal H2 atoms which are bound together by a single hydrino to give mass 5 has an IP of only 3-4 eV (or at any rate much less than 13.6 eV) and Mills has his MS device set so that most of the A5 is ionized and never detected as such? Make sense? This mass 5 allotrope would seem to be a species which would be liquid at LN temps, and best of all - could possess more potential energy content during combustion with oxygen (as a high density fuel) than hydrogen alone but far less that the 200x that the typical Mills' thin plasma will permit - for a short period. Tradeoff. IOW 5 AMU equivalent of normal hydrogen compared to the "A5" allotrope would be less energetic - since the binding hydrino, once freed, would possibly tend to either shrink further or to catalyze one or more of the other four to shrink. That could explain part of the lore behind BG as well as explaining why Mills cannot be successful over the long term, unless he can keep the allotrope from forming in the first place. Combustion keeps more A5 from forming, but it ruins you highest gain potential in another way. Catch-22. Jones
