Your theory has a lot of good points but I think one of us has a misconception about Rydberg matter .. and it could be me so maybe we can hash out a couple things right now and at least one of us will benefit.
Sorry for the delay Francis. I’ll start with a the small bone to pick that I have mentioned previously is that you keep mentioning Rydberg matter when I think you mean inverse Rydberg matter if you are referencing the same hydrogen that others coin hydrino…. When I think and talk about Rydberg atoms and associated matter, this is what I have in my mind. Rydberg matter/atoms as a phase of matter can be formed by many elements including hydrogen. It is usually associated with one atom in the outer most electron orbit. In the hydrogen envelope of an NiH reactor, there can be a mixture of Rydberg matter and atom types witch include atoms of hydrogen, Rydberg atoms of the catalyst (aka secret sauce), Rydberg matter of hydrogen, Rydberg matter of the catalyst, and trace amounts of other elements formed by transmutation and some from contamination. Furthermore, a compound molecule of Rydberg matter can be composed of a mixture of hydrogen atoms and atoms of the catalyst. It is safe to assume that in the highly excited hydrogen envelope of a long running NiH reactor complex multi-element reactions are forming many and varied types and mixtures of Rydberg atoms and molecules. Also, in such an excited gas envelope, it is safe to assume that some of these mixtures of Rydberg molecules will transform into the inverse type in time. I think it is reasonable to assume that Rydberg atoms being far smaller and more electrostatically nimble than the large molecule types will be ionized by the micro-powder to protons that will accumulate inside the micro-cavities. The large molecules especially containing atoms of the catalyst will not usually be ripped apart because of their robust quantum mechanical characteristics. This is just my intuition and needs to be verified by experiment. If not absorbed into the micro-powder, these large and excited molecules of all types will steal more Rydberg atoms from the envelope and grow even bigger. They could grow big enough to clog up some growing percentage of micro-cavities until the reaction stalls into quiescence. I believe that DGT found this type of molecule contaminate on the surface of the spent Rossi ash thereby deducing what type of catalyst Rossi was using as his secret sauce. It is this contaminant that DGT purges when they vacuum clean the micro-powder. It is the buildup of this contaminant that kills the Rossi reaction in 8 hours. The DGT pulse burn régime will tend to minimize the growth of large Rydberg molecules thereby avoiding performance reduction by micro-cavity congestion in a way that will happen during the Rossi continuous burn régime.
