This quote from *Edmund Storms* has always intrigued me. I always test this mechanisms described in this quote as a test against any new prospective theory of the Rossi reaction.
*[start quote] Edmund Storms: Rossi hit upon this somewhat by accident. He was using a nickel catalyst to explore ways of making a fuel by combining hydrogen and carbon monoxide and apparently, observed quite by accident, that his [?????] was making extra energy. So then he explored it from that point of view and, apparently, over a year or two, amplified the effect.* * * *He’s exploring the gas loading area of the field. This is also a region, a method used in the heavy water, or the heavy hydrogen, system. But in this case, it was light hydrogen, ordinary hydrogen and nickel and what happens is quite amazing. * * * *You create the right conditions in the nickel, and he has a secret method for doing that, and all you do is add hydrogen to it and it makes huge amounts of energy based upon a nuclear reaction.”[ end quote]* * * * * The excess heat formed in nickel catalyst tests of CH4 production may be understood by the production of High-Rydburg(HR) states of hydrogen when excited CH4 decomposes and interacts with lattice faults in nickel. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > *The High-Rydburg theory of the Rossi reaction.* > > > > When hot high pressure hydrogen is bombarded with thermal electrons, long > lived clumps of negative hydrogen ions form. High-Rydburg(*HR)* states > produced by electron impact have been observed with lifetimes of about 100 > microseconds to seconds based on their quantum excitation states. > > > > High-Rydberg states of H2 produced via electron impact have been observed > with long lifetimes. Such long-lived *HR *states are thought to be high > orbital angular momentum (high-C) states populated via electron impact near > ion threshold energies. > > > > Preliminary measurements 'using a new experimental technique’ (Pinnaduwage, > *L. A., *and Datskos,) show that the effective lifetimes may be *Lengthened > *at high ambient pressures; this could be due to the collisional > stabilization of vibrationally-excited core of the *HR* state. > > > > In more detail, the *HR* clump is coherent with orbital electrons moving > in circular orbits far from the ion cores. These clumps are effectively > super-atoms that don’t react with ordinary H2. > > > > As kinetic energy is added by atomic and further electron impacts on the > clumps, the quantum level of ionization grows larger and the lifetime of the > clump increases. > > > > These ion cores are comprised of hundreds of hydrogen nuclei with their > electrons orbiting at extreme distances. When these ion core complexes > find their way into the lattice defects of nickel, a fusion process occurs. > This process is the fusion mechanism that is universal to all cold fusion > processes observed in many years of countless cold fusion experiments. > > > > On the practical side, this coherent ion state of hydrogen can be produced > by dissociation of CH4 by glow discharge electron emissions. In turn this > CH4 can be produced when carbon is heated and evaporates in a hydrogen > atmosphere. Graphite heated in a high pressure hydrogen atmosphere will > generate CH4. >
