Robin posed an interesting idea, that D could react with itself to produce 4He. One of the fascinating recent findings by Mills is that H can auto-catalyze, producing hydrinos. Specifically 2 H's can provide the energy sink to induce a third H to drop to the hydrino state. Once a hydrino is produced, it can catalyze other H's to become hydrinos. The reaction is strongly exothermic, and so may be a source of "excess heat" in LENR cells. This reaction should apply to D's as well, since it is essentially a chemical reaction of the electron shells.
But D already carries a neutron. Perhaps this reaction among D's may leave behind 4He atoms as well? The ingredients are already there. The "resonant transfer" [RT] cited by Mills occurs at short distances and does not involve photons. It could be extremely fast, and perhaps involve the strong force, which overcomes the Coulomb barrier. Being a three-body reaction, it is unobservably rare except where the H or D concentration is high, as at the cathode of an LENR cell. Thank you, Robin. This may be a key to many mysteries. Mike Carrell -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 4:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:RE: combine Mills chemistry, Arata powders and Haich-Moddel insulating layers with open cell Nickel foam In reply to francis 's message of Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:59:55 -0400: Hi, [snip] >Jones, > > I thought Robin's synopsis re the atomic weight mated >hydrogen with Ni, and Deuterium with Pd? Perhaps foamed Pd? Not necessarily D with Pd. D should simply react with itself, which may be why so few experiments yield Pd transmutation. One thing is sure, the actual mechanism must provide a fast energy release path that makes the He4 product possible. It has to be fast to prevent the normal two paths from occurring. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html ________________________________________________________________________ This Email has been scanned for all viruses by Medford Leas I.T. Department.
