mix...@bigpond.com wrote: > In reply to Jones Beene's message of Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:06:28 -0800: > Hi Jones, > [snip] > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: mix...@bigpond.com >> >> >>> Matching lattice spacings may be at least one reason why CF is so >>> >> temperamental.... One of the lattice spacings of Zr4.28Zn0.9Ge3 is a very >> close match to the x-ray wavelength required for H[n=1/9]. At level 9, the >> fusion time for DD fusion should be about 7 milli seconds (ms). >> >> If lattice spacing were thought to be the overriding main issue, Robin, then >> there should be a easier way to test the hypothesis than trying to find and >> match exotic and temperamental alloys. >> >> Many steels have compressive strength in the range of 300 Mpa and many metal >> hydride and hydride salts have compressive strength in the range of 30 Mpa - >> ergo essentially all one needs to do (to test the hypothesis) is to find a >> range of spacing values in the proper hydride, enclose it in a steel chamber >> which is designed to be pressurized repeatedly (bellows tube) and then >> sequentially compress and release pressure to cycle through the geometry >> over and over *at pressure higher than the mechanical failure range of the >> salt.* >> > > This is an interesting idea. If I were doing it however, I would use a very > small quantity of LiD, and check for neutrons and alpha particles. The small > quantity is in case cycling through an exact match results in all of them > reacting concurrently. In fact a short high pressure burst sounds eerily > familiar ;) > (And pressure cycling is likely to be slow enough that a few ms can easily be > achieved.) >
As Lao-tse said: "If we wish to compress something, we must first let it fully expand." I certainly think that one or various of these proposed setups should work. The method can even be combined with the classical electrolytic setup, i.e. achieve some initial loading ratio using an electrolytic setup, and then gradually (and carefully) switch to a repetitive "compress and release" mode, by means of a mechanical method(pressurization), or by other method (electromagnetic fields, X rays, pulsed lasers, ultrasound, etc.)
