In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:03:10 -0500: Hi, [snip] >At 11:39 PM 12/26/2011, [email protected] wrote: >>In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:32:07 -0500: >>Hi, >>[snip] >> >Put it this way, if this isn't a nuclear reaction, it is some kind of >> >super-battery, probably worth billions just for that. Unfortunately >> >for this battery idea, ... helium. >> >>You appear to have ignored the possibility of super-chemistry, a la Mills or >>IRH. > >Hydrinos, i.e., "a la Mills," would not produce helium unless they >catalyze a nuclear reaction.
True, but Rossi isn't producing Helium, which AFAIK is only produced in experiments using Deuterium. The D-D fusion reaction is one of the easiest to achieve, so it's no surprise that, when D is available, a lot of heat (perhaps most of it) comes from that reaction. OTOH when no D is available, then only the very smallest Hydrinos may be able to fuse resulting in very little if any of the energy release coming from fusion reactions (H-H has such a low cross section that I doubt it makes any significant contribution). > >Helium demonstrates "nuclear," by whatever mechanism. It's a >transmuted element. Agreed. > >Look, I can't rule out hydrinos, but I'd expect hydrino-catalyzed >fusion to produce the same branching ratio as muon-catalyzed fusion. >I.e., the same as hot fusion. Not necessarily. The shrunken electron(s) may carry away the energy thus conserving momentum while allowing the formation of He4, or a hydrino molecule may be involved in a fusion reaction allowing half to fuse while the other half carries away the reaction energy, or clusters of molecules may be involved (same effect). > >Mills doesn't look quite as nuts as Rossi, but I do get a bit, ah, >... impatient ... at announcements of products that are ready any day >now, for years. Blacklight Power is, again, *secret* process, like >Rossi. What is Rowan University up to now? ... I don't think Blacklight Power is especially secretive, beyond the normal commercial secretiveness that one might reasonably expect. In fact I think that they have revealed a great deal more than others in their position might have. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
