Mark - I did not see your message ahead of posting mine. However, the point stands that no amount of vacuum pumping will ever remove the alloyed proton from nickel. That proton remains until the nickel is melted.
Whether or not nickel-hydride with 7% by atomic volume hydrogen will give
much net gain is debatable - but the lack of hydrogen gas in the cell after
vacuum purge may not be enough for a good control (if the nichrome was
previously alloyed with hydrogen).
Jones
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From: MarkI-ZeroPoint
Jones,
you wrote, "but they should probably use neon instead of
helium in control cells"
What makes you think they used helium??? They said, and I
restated, that they operate their control cells in a *VACUUM*, so I take
that to mean that they assemble the cell, and then attach it to a vacuum
pump and pump the INSIDE of the cell down to some level of vacuum... so NO
gases at all inside the cell.
-Mark
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From: Jones Beene
Well, that is good - but they should probably use neon
instead of helium in control cells and absolutely fresh nichrome (never
exposed to hydrogen),
As mentioned earlier, the first proton in any nickel alloy
will bury itself in the FCC crystal and cannot be removed without actually
melting the wire. It becomes an actual alloy and a strong alloy at that.
If the nichrome was ever exposed to hydrogen, it should not
be used as a control since it can and probably will be a nickel-hydrogen
alloy in the ratio of 14:1. That low percentage of hydrogen may limit its
excess heat capability, but not eliminate it.
Also helium can be active for Lamb shift manipulation,
according to a few theorists. IIRC helium is mentioned in the Haisch patent.
http://aias.us/documents/uft/paper86.pdf
Therefore a non-active control would consist of virgin
nichrome wire in neon.
From: H Veeder
Yes they are using nichrome and are aware of
the issues but they are not using H in control cells.
Harry
* The US Cell was indicating approximately
1.4 watts excess, again, well above the ~0.5W confidence interval. Very
exciting to see something positive and especially simultaneous.
Harry,
If you are in contact with them - please ask
if they are still using nichrome as a control.
Nichrome is active for LENR for the same
reason that Celani's wires are active - the wires contain Ni-62. In fact,
they may contain more than constantan.
There are plenty of good alternatives to
nichrome - resistance wires which contains no nickel.
If Quantum is serious about showing excess
heat - then they must move away from using a control which is also active !
Jones
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