In reply to Peter Gluck's message of Mon, 16 May 2011 09:57:23 +0300: Hi Peter, [snip] >Dear Robin. > >in more practical terms- in your understanding how much >energy can be squeezed out of. say, a gram of hydrogen? >Compared to burning, or to what Rossi has suceeded to obtain in the February >demo at Bologna?
That depends on whether or not the process is nuclear. If it is, then Hydrogen will deliver about 169000 kWh/gm. If it's only Hydrino formation energy being released, then the maximum you can get is about 7000 kWh/gm. From burning with Oxygen you get about 0.04 kWh/gm. (Which of course is also the minimum energy you would need to invest via electrolysis to extract it from water). In the Feb. test they produced at most 20 kW * 18 hr = 360 kWh with approx. 0.11 gm of Hydrogen, which equates to about 3300 kWh/ gm. That's 122 keV / atom. That means that if it came purely from Hydrino shrinkage, then the Hydrinos were shrunken on average to about level 94 (out of 137), which I would consider very well done. However I think a more realistic explanation would be that some of the Hydrinos underwent a fusion reaction, and the resultant energy is a mixture of Hydrino shrinkage and fusion energy. When Hydrinos shrink, you usually get a mixture of levels some small, and some not so small. The very smallest are FAR more likely to undergo fusion than the larger ones, and the smallest are harder to make. One other point bears mentioning. The output was much too low for a pure fusion reaction. That implies that Hydrogen was "consumed" while generating less energy that from a fusion reaction, or perhaps it was just absorbed by the Ni, and never reacted, or perhaps the uncertainty in the "0.11 gm" is much larger than has been implied. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
