Terry Blanton on Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:47:17 -0700 said
JeanLouis has a fine set of plans on his site:
http://jlnlabs.online.fr/mahg/diagram.htm in case you want to build one.
Terry,
I actually do want to build something this time but not as complicated
as the Mohler - Naudin design as I think they shot themselves in the foot
chasing the PWM drive to accelerate the reaction. I also ran into some mention
of William Lyne and his hydrogen furnace in which he claims the MAHG was based
on his furnace without proper credit or citation. Lyne also mentioned something
that I have been positing for some time that makes me feel he and I are on
exactly the same page, that is the importance of the lack of oxygen -the
hydrogen oscillation can be killed by forming oxides long before enough oxygen
for combustion occurs. I think the Mill's reaction goes beyond just forming
oxides on the walls of the Rayney nickel pores (10nm Casimir geometry)- because
there is no oxygen to provide an easy chemical path to completion, the
oscillation between H2 and H1 continues over unity until the walls become
"plastic hot" and the Casimir force grows whiskers that short out the plate
geometry -at which time the powder has to be shipped back to BLP to be
re-activated.
This MAHG concept is the easiest application of my theories and doesn't
have any financial or materials restrictions like most of the others. Tungsten
powder is about $20 a pound and available in any golf shop for weighting club
heads (spherical grains but I could mix with other conductive powders and
zeolites as variables to change the packing geometry and Casimir field
strengths), tungsten heating coils are available in many configurations from
dryer parts to electronic supply as wire on a roll. I have been stuck for a
long time on hydrogen gas as my HHO kit has unwanted oxygen and proper hydrogen
production or lecture bottles are rather expensive - I am looking now to use
plain old helium (available in balloon kits) as both a purge gas and an inert
mixer with just a few liters of electrolyzed h2 in a closed loop with valves to
control the mix and a purge valve to flush any ambient - I don't know a lot
about pumps but know I need an isolated piston driven magnetically from outside
the cylinder and materials that resist hydrogen wear - to get started I could
just use a linear path back and forth through the reactors instead of a loop
and then apply some mechanical motion to a water level near the floor that
would drive the gas in the same hose up on the bench back and forth through the
reactor - primitive but effective without need for a pump but would still
gladly accept any recommendations for a low cost pump somewhat suitable for H2
- My focus is to build up something cheap just to see if a controlled
experiment is even warranted. I'm thinking my priority is to limit the amount
of hydrogen and keep oxygen out so I may be able to use cheap long stemmed
valves where the in - out hoses and the bodies are all submerged in water.
The goal of my experiment would be to show the heat given off from the
reactor tubes (bent copper loops full of tungsten and other powders with a
heating coil)could be maintained while reducing the current to the heating cols
but tweaking the circulation speed and mix of hydrogen and helium through the
tubes. As I said before I think this is mainly a thermal balancing act to
prevent runaway that will destroy the geometry by forming cat whiskers as the
metal goes plastic VS getting too cool where the discount toward H2
disassociation doesn't exceeding the triggering threshold and the opposition of
change in Casimir force to a covalent bond is instead converted into a
repulsive motion away from the change in geometry. I think the "too cool"
environment may be what Arata is seeing when his thermal anomaly has to be
measured over a period of weeks as the "trapped" fractional H2 very slowly is
able to disassociate and reform to different fractional values as it seeps it's
way out of the Casimir confinement and finds an ambient balance between h2 that
is unable to enter the smaller confinement and h1 that is able to freely
translate to different fractional values inside the Casimir geometries.
At this point I haven't laid out any physical plans but am thinking multiple
reactors made of grounded copper tubes with the supply wire for the tungsten
filament routed inside the path of the gas supply -I'll put a current control
in line to the Costco 12V jumpstart battery. I will also need a method to vary
the heat sinking ability of the coolant vessel in which the reactors are
submerged -change the volume? I think you need to initially preheat the
coolant to get the thermal balance inside the reactors nearer to disassociation
then slowly back off the coolant heat to keep temp stable as the reactors take
over as the heating source. Once stable I would start tweaking the gas mix vs
the tungsten heating coil current. Anyway that is the current plan but
obviously subject to refinement. Please feel free to recommend any materials or
procedures conducive to lowering cost, improving safety or making this a more
easily repeated experiment should I get any interesting results.
Regards
Fran
