Or the sintering temperature promotes the reaction instead of destroying it.
Harry On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]>wrote: > Kudos to A. Rossi for this huge step forward in validation of his work! > > One thing in the report that I find incredible was the amount of fuel that > was "measured" by cutting open the inner cylinder and dumping out the > catalyst-fuel - supposedly only 0.6g. This is a tiny amount of nickel > powder. Carbonyl Ni micro-powder has a bulk density of about 3.6g/cc. > Thus, the volume of powder that came out would have been only 0.17cc from > a containing cylinder of 3cm x 33cm. I don't think it is possible to > adequately conduct that much heat from 0.17cc of loose powder - that much > heat would have caused loose powder to melt if it were the source. > Instead, I suspect that the HotCat must have the catalyst-fuel powder > coated/bonded on the inside surface of the cylinder like a thermally > conductive paint. Then, only what had come loose would have been measured > when they cut the cylinder open. Of course, this will make the Ragone > estimate off by an order of magnitude, but the real number is likely still > orders of magnitude more than that of chemical sources. > > Maybe what came out was a small amount of a metal hydride that was the > source for the H2 in the cylinder. >
