"The Mystery and Legacy of Joseph Papp's Noble Gas Engine" by Eugene F. Mallove
http://www.infinite-energy.com/iemagazine/issue51/papp.html is a similar ZPE reaction to the one I am proposing . I had assumed that noble gases would ONLY act as insulators helping to isolate conductive/catalytic pockets of gas geometry similar to the way Haisch and Moddel's prototype has insulating layers between the active Casimir/catalytic layers to force the migrating gases to translate through a wide range of vacuum energy density - Haisch and Moddel concentrated on the Lamb pinch with unheated noble gas while I suggest their environment could be utilized to force catalytic disassociation of diatomic gases like hydrogen. My premise being that any molecular gas opposes the translation to different vacuum energy densities while atomic gas translates freely creating an asymmetrical path. This concept would go unnoticed and unexploited on the macro scale since such changes only occur on a large scale as the result of a gravitational gradient where energy density increases as you travel deeper into a gravity well. At the nano scale however you have a break in this isotropy due to suppression induced by Casimir geometry. It is my position that change in this Casimir geometry is responsible for catalytic action. Unlike the increased energy density due to a gravity well we see decreased energy density due to suppression and it occurs abruptly at the plates/ walls of a Casimir cavity. These walls can take the form of a compressed meniscus in a liquid medium and should have a gaseous equivalent when different gases of different bonding affinities are rapidly mixed in a COMBUSTION chamber. After reading the article above it is clear there was no combustion occurring in the Papp engine as there was no exhaust. I humbly suggest this was an endless ZPE reaction that catalytically disassociated noble gas compounds - Wikipedia does list a limited number of chemical compounds that noble gases can form so it could act as both monatomic insulator and reactant compound. Once disassociated the atomic gases translate freely to the current vacuum energy density and are then free to reform their chemical compounds at the local energy density and release energy as they reform compounds and fall to the lower energy state. The catalytic disassociation replenishes the atomic energy state each time courtesy of ZPE. The heat released by this process would be self limiting since it pushes the piston back up to both cool the plasma and release the pressure causing these bubble like pockets of Casimir geometry. I think the spark mechanism may have been more to keep the mechanical timing and crank direction under control or you would get frequent reversals and possible explosions and so you would want to run it just below threshold and use the spark to delay the reaction past top dead center - I think a multiple cylinder engine would have been much safer. Regards Fran On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:44 Robin wrote [snip] Don't forget that there is likely to be a fair bit of free Hydrogen in a normal IC engine running on gasoline, which after all is a "Hydro"-carbon. So if H is anywhere near a reasonable catalyst, then we are likely already seeing Hydrino energy in normal combustion engines. [/snip] Yes hydrino combustion probably is occurring inside a normal ICE to a limited degree but I am still convinced that oxygen is the bane of this reaction. Combustion is a one way reaction that removes the hydrogen. If the plasma can be oxygen starved the fractional/ hydrino states can Continue to expand over a wider range. I think a diesel like heater in the ICE could bring a noncombustible mix of hydrogen and other gases up close to the threshold of a runaway ZPE reaction and then the piston stroke would act like the PWM in the Rossi device to compress the plasma over the threshold in one direction then reverses to expand and cool the plasma back under the threshold. My posit of an endless ashless reaction is based on a super catalytic disassociation where nano geometry pockets of catalyst gas oppose and disassociate molecular hydrogen or hydrinos - I don't think the fractional states would be as acute as in a solid skeletal cat or nano powders but there is no danger of damaging the geometry since they are constantly reforming in a gas medium similar to bubbles in the liquid medium of bubble fusion. IMHO the dihydrinos would disassociate/reform multiple times giving off heat every time they reform to heat the gas and push the piston back up. Regards Fran
