Hey Gang, I've been reading a lot about Carbon Nanotubes and its significance as a possible NAE, and something hit me.
Could the original ECat have been a CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition) reactor? The similarity are numerous: A cylindrical reactor, a presurrized H2 envelope, some nickel powder and possibly some carbon powder as the "catalyst". The reactor would be heated and the carbon would sublimate and deposit onto Nickel powder and grow as Carbon nanotubes. Nickel has been a common seed material for the growth of Single Walled NanoTubes (SWNT). A quick jolt of RF energy would then give the nanotubes a stir and cause the start of the LENR reaction. Eventually, Rossi found out that an Arc Discharge reactor is better for CNT creation so he changed his design from a CVD reactor to a flat-plate arc discharge reactor. The recent news from Rossi that the amount of Nickel being used in his reactor is now down to 1.5 grams seems to be consistent with the hypothesis that Nickel is a seed material for CNT growth rather than as the reactants involved in a Fusion reaction. 1.5 grams seems to little to be reactants in the fusion reaction. What do you guys think? Am I way off here? Jojo
