Superalloys have made jet travel possible. Will they help LENR to "takeoff" in the same way?
The advantage of high nickel superalloys is fuel efficiency, more so than lower weight of the engine. However, inline turbine engines are never efficient at low temperature; but when the blades reach a temperature where surface plasmons can form in the presence of hydrogen, turbines are much more efficient. That of course, is NOT the standard explanation. :-) Typically, the gain in fuel efficiency is attributed to the gain in combustion temperature, and the thinking is that this feature alone explains the situation fully since the Carnot "spread" is higher, which no doubt is true. But, for the observer who is thinking "outside the box" (pathologically or not) there are alternative explanations that go beyond Carnot gain. IOW - it is possible that something "else" may happen additionally at high temperature - coincidental with greater ionization and longer lifetime for free atomic hydrogen. Do nickel-hydrogen-plasmonics enter the picture, or is it coincidental that nickel and free protons, which are only available at high temperature - together with the creation of surface plasmons, which are only available at high temperature - all intersect in the jet turbine - on the hot superalloy blades? Hmm... isn't there a slight anomaly in the known thermal gradient? No matter for now, as this post may certainly seem like a flight of fancy, so to speak. AFAIK no one has ever connected the dots in this way before now (i.e. - that there is something "else" besides Carnot gain in modern jet engines). If they had, then these engines would be designed slightly differently than they are now. BTW this idea turned up on analysis of the composition of INCONEL(r) nickel-chromium alloy 625 in the context of an old LENR experiment ... and I was thinking - wow, this alloy is suited for formation of both f/H and plasmons since you have high nickel, high molybdenum (the best Mills catalyst when ionized) and some silicon and carbon all in one alloy. Silicon carbide would be the dielectric part of the alloy (along with surface oxide layers). Possible, or no? Well it may be coincidental, but Mizuno's greatest gain in his plasma discharge experiments apparently was in a reactor of 625 superalloy. That's how this post materialized. BTW that old experiment had "plasmons "written all over it, yet no one made that connection back then. What is this kind of insight, if it is accurate - worth for air transport? Heck... a Rolls would look nice in the driveway, unless it was already mounted under the wing of an AirBus ... but those geniuses are probably way ahead of pathological scientists on the subject of nickel-hydrogen-plasmonics... ... or not.
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