> Interesting paper Lou.
>
> This is giving me some more to chew on. Might it be possible that Rossi
> is
> processing his Nickel powder with the expressed goal of creating
> Quasi-One-Dimensional Nickel tubules. These nanosized diameter Nickel
> nanocylinders would act as charge accumulators. Could it be that Rossi's
> process is simply charge accumulation on metallic Nickel nanocylinders? I
> believe Axil also said something to this effect.
>
> How does one process to create nickel nanosized nanocylinder tubules?
>
> Regarding the mixture of Semiconducting and Metallic SWNTs, I believe the
> charge accumulation and coherent electrons would only be enhanced in
> Metallic SWNTs. Only the Metallic/Armchair variant of SWNT exhibit "long
> Coherence Lengths". The semiconducting variants of SWNT like ZigZag and
> Chiral types do not exhibit "long Coherence Lengths".
>
> If Axil's theory is correct, Metallic SWNTs are the key to easily
> providing
> an abundance of NAE. Ed Storms believes that Cracks and Carbon Nanotubes
> are perfect candidates for the NAE. Cracks can not be manufactured on
> demand, however Metallic SWNTs can be.
>
> If a process can be found to manufacture large amounts of Metallic SWNTs,
> increasing the power output density of an LENR Reactor would simply be a
> matter of controlling the production rate of Metallic SWNTs in conjunction
> with modulating the spark rate to control the amount of charge
> accumulation
> on these Metallic SWNTs. Nothing could be simplier (simplier than other
> methods.)
>
> I will modify my design again to test these ideas.
>
>
> Jojo
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 3:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [Vo]:Coherent Quantum Wires and Charge Accumulation
>
>
>> Jojo,
>>
>> I believe in both metal nanowires and carbon SWNTs, current density is
>> directly related to radius^2 - Refer to equation(1), page 1 of -
>>
>> "Stability of Metal Nanowires at Ultrahigh Current Densities"
>> http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0411058v3.pdf
>>
>> Perhaps densely packed vertically aligned arrays of metal nanowires
>> and/or
>> metallic carbon SWNTs are also worth a look. They could support
>> extremely
>> large currents and generate very strong fields. I'm not sure, but I
>> think
>> some metals can crystallize this way.
>>
>> Might the ratio of semiconductor/metallic carbon SWNTs be more important
>> than absolute purity?
>>
>> -- Lou Pagnucco
>>
>> Jojo Jaro wrote:
>>> I read these patents and most of it is beyond my ability and skill. And
>>> they're mostly about how to produce SWNTs, which no distinction between
>>> the Metallic SWNTs from the Semiconducting SWNT varieties.
>>>
>>> I've found many papers discussing production of SWNTs as opposed to
>>> MWNTs,
>>> but I found only 2 papers discussing the Selective Production of
>>> "Metallic" SWNTs. They're both from the same author and it was a very
>>> short paper and he does not really discuss how to do it in detail. Do
>>> you
>>> know of any papers discussing the selective production of Metallic
>>> SWNTs?
>>> I think this is the key in increasing the power density of LENR.
>>>
>>>
>>> With respect to "the smaller SWNTs the better". In your understanding,
>>> why would a smaller (diameter?) SWNT be better than one which is
>>> slightly
>>> bigger. Any quantum mechanical reason that you can explain?
>>>
>>> Can you direct me to any papers discussing Charge accumulation in
>>> SWNTs?
>>>
>>> Jojo
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Axil Axil
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 8:49 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Vo]:Coherent Quantum Wires and Charge Accumulation
>>>
>>>
>>> I found about 1000 patents using the compound keywords.. Metallic AND
>>> SWNT
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Google patents, use the "Download PDF" button to see the complete
>>> patent including the diagrams.
>>>
>>>
>>> This looked good to me on a quick scan of the material.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.google.com/patents/US8163263
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I found 134 patents using the compound keywords.. Armchair AND SWNT
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This looked good to me on a quick scan of the material.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.google.com/patents?id=pyz5AQAAEBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=8,038,795&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ig7lT7jdCoHn0QG-mInWCQ&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAA
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Also
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.google.com/patents/US7807127
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Just thinking out loud here, but do you think the size of the Fe or
>>> Ni
>>> nanopowders used as catalyst seed material might influence the creation
>>> of Armchair SWNTs.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I think this is true and the smaller the particle, the m
>>
>>
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