In reply to Axil Axil's message of Fri, 27 May 2011 15:48:49 -0400: Hi, [snip] >Through countless revelations generously supplied, Rossi has put to rest >untold numbers of my pet speculations on the working principles behind his >Cat-E reactor. > >As the latest example, Rossi says that a Bunsen burner could be used to >generate the heat for the reaction. No cathode or volts required. > >This latest revelation rips the heart out of the theory that the Cat-E >process involves the acceleration of ions via electrostatic forces. > >My latest operating theory: the thermally activated production of Rydberg >matter clusters of hydrogen via carbon with a surface coat of potassium is >still in the running however.
Actually clusters (of 1,7,19,37,61 etc.) might explain everything. First, the smallest cluster would be 7. That has important consequences for energy distribution. If at least 7 particles are available, and 2 undergo fusion, then that leaves 6 nuclei plus their associated electrons to share the energy of the reaction, ensuring that no really high energy particles are created. It also means that D+D can fuse all the way to He4, without the need to fission into He3 + n or T + p. When D is the fuel, then D+D fusion becomes far and away the most likely reaction because the Coulomb barrier for this reaction is at a minimum, and the cross section at a maximum (due to the large energy gain). When H is the fuel, then reactions between individual H's are less likely because of the necessity of weak force conversion of protons to neutrons, however reactions with the metal atoms are not excluded if the protons are accompanied by electrons when tunneling into the nucleus. The energy of such reactions can still be absorbed by the remainder of the cluster. Occasionally, an entire H cluster may convert to single atom. The atoms one might then expect would have masses as per the series mentioned here above. 7 Lithium 19 Fluorine 37 Chlorine 61 Nickel 91 Zirconium 127 Iodine so one might expect to find some of these substances after long running of the device. The density of the clusters increases with their atom count. With increasing density the nuclei would be closer together, increasing the probability of tunneling. Once a certain probability threshold is reached, the condensation happens, and the cluster is destroyed, ensuring that heavier elements don't form. This may be what makes formation of Ni likely. That's where the threshold is reached, due to the binding energy maximum, however evidence indicates that it takes a considerably larger cluster before the required density is reached. That means that there as still lots of particles left over to share the formation energy with. (Evidence in this case being the lack of high energy ionizing radiation). [out of left field] Perhaps the nuclear frequency of the surrounding Ni atoms provides a "coherence field" that stimulates the condensation, analogous to the operation of a laser, where emission of light quanta is stimulated by existing quanta of the same frequency? (In this case the stimulation would be by "matter waves"). It's almost as though the existing Ni nuclei are teaching the cluster atoms how to become Ni nuclei. ;) [return to normal programming] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
