Found this on RWG suggesting safe go/no-go experimental trials reduced to
simplicity
and minimal materials costs any one can attempt:
<Presently have Fe pipe nipple +
<2 caps. Loading 5% "Mix" with 95% Zeolite. One cap tight, one cracked a bit.
<This is placed into larger PVC pipe section with one end glue tight +
implanted gas
<valve for alternate evacuating / charging with propane and the other end
<capped with silicone grease to make non permanent seal. Must purge out O.
<The propane is cheap, easy to work with and disintegrates into soot and active
H.
<The Mix follows these proportions:
<NiCl2{H2O}6 + 7Mg => Ni + MgCl2 + 6MgO + 6H2
<237.6 170.1 58.7 12
<with excess Mg (Fireworks) powder, thorium lamp mantle and trial tid bits of
<catalyst. The PVC cap is eased off with a tiny + propane pressure and the
<Fe caps tightened with heavy monkeys. Dug 10' hole out back & installed 12'
<4" PVC pipe capped on bottom. Wrapped nipple with used nichrome heater wire,
<insulation and thermocouple. Procedure is: lower unit, stand away, heater on
<and heater off at 450 C. Goal: Excess heat or new commercial explosive via
<fusion.
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