I haven't followed the hydrino theory but the little that I've taken notice of it there seems to be a problem with the idea that entropy favors hydrino production since, if that were the case the ocean would turn into dihydrino oxide, right?
Moreover, to add confusion there is the energy emitted in going from hydrogen to hydrino conflated with the energy emitted from LENR. If someone could provide a concise disaggregation of these two points of confusion/conflation, it would help. On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 2:28 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In reply to David Roberson's message of Sun, 1 Dec 2013 03:17:14 -0500 > (EST): > Hi, > [snip] > > > >Have you determined whether or not this is a reversible process? How > often does the lower energy hydrino accept energy from a catalyst that has > not yet released the same amount of energy in the form of radiation? It is > common for energy to be traded in both directions according to > thermodynamic laws. > > > >Dave > Entropy works in favour of Hydrino production. Once the energy has been > released, it is difficult to get it back again. Furthermore, it is a two > stage > process. In the first stage a multiple of 27.2 eV is handed to the > catalyst. In > the second stage more energy is released as the newly formed Hydrino > stabilizes. > Consequently, an "excited" catalyst doesn't have enough energy to > "re-inflate" a > stable Hydrino. > > The simplest case will serve as an example:- > > Stage I) H + Ar+ => Hy* + Ar++ + e- > > Stage II) Hy* => Hy + 13.6 eV (UV or kinetic) > > > (I have used Hy* to denote an intermediate state of the Hydrino). > Note that in (I) 27.2 eV is transferred to the Ar+, which further ionizes > it, > but an additional 13.6 eV is lost in (II), so the total energy lost is > 40.8 eV. > > Hence Ar++ recombining with a free electron to produce Ar+ would only > generate > 27.2 eV, which is 13.6 eV short of the amount required to "re-inflate" the > Hydrino back to H. > > Note the actual ionization energy of Ar+ is 27.6 eV, but I have > deliberately > left the consequences of that out of the explanation as I am trying to > keep it > simple. > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
