Bob, all. I realize that there are many opinions on how the HotCat operates, and some of them are dramatically different for others.
We have discussed this several times but few observers have been convinced
that any of the alternative views are accurate - so there is no consensus on
Vortex.
In looking back over prior posts, the version of HotCat which seems most
likely to me is that there is a stainless capsule located inside the SiC
tube. That is the black tube shown in your image which is SiC and not
stainless. The active surface for the plasmon reaction is the inner
interface of the SiC with the stainless, which is a close fit.
Hydrogen migrates outward from inside the SS capsule (mouse) to that surface
interface, once it has attained a lower ground state. The purpose of the
mouse is to produce factional hydrogen - probably in the DDL (deep Dirac
level). Stainless steel cannot hold hydrogen in the reduced diameter and it
migrates through the tube as quickly as it forms. The DDL reaction does not
have to be gainful in its own right - and probably is not very robust. This
is the departure from Mills. The gain occurs when dense hydrogen clusters in
the interfacial zone undergoes LENR - in that interfacial zone.
IOW - the DDL (f/H or fractional hydrogen) which forms dense hydrogen
clusters in the interface zone between the stainless capsule and the SiC,
which are now to be labeled as plasmons or polaritons, can then be
stimulated by the monochromatic IR which is radiated from the tube. LENR
then occurs. We do not need to be specific about the kind of LENR now, but
for me it is RPF - reversible proton fusion. For others, it will be another
type of LENR possibly going to deuterium or tritium.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it :-)
If you want to continue this analysis - please counter with your own
understanding of the precise dynamics of the HotCat reaction, based on this
tube being painted stainless, and not SiC.
Not that we will have any converts from this exercise, but it can be helpful
to update our various understanding of the mechanism periodically based on
new information.
Jones
From: Jones Beene
Hi Bob,
I think we have had this discussion before.
The tube seen in your picture from the Penon report is SiC -
not stainless.
There were a number of mislabeled pictures in the Penon
report - which was never authorized to be released.
For one thing the black color is the important clue to the
type of tube. There would be absolutely no reason to paint a stainless tube
black since it is internal and must maintain tolerance, which paint would
ruin. The color is uniform with sharp edges and clearly not painted.
There was even a description in Rossi's JoNP site about how
he and Focardi came to use this silicon carbide tube, based on a visit to
one of the Labs run by the Italian government.
Not sure, but that page may still be there.
From: Bob Higgins
I believe you have a misconception about
what the hotCat is. In the hotCat, both the metal hydride and Rossi's magic
nickel powder are encased entirely in stainless steel. I am near 100%
certain he does this by using 2 concentric stainless tubes machined with an
interior space for his ingredients. Then ends of the stainless steel tubing
are then cold welded together and the result looks like just a stainless
pipe that is empty. When he added the "Mouse", he then put something
(probably his original eCat recipe) inside the composite pipe and he
stoppered the ends closed. This can be clearly seen in the Penon report. I
have diagrams of this, and I have put them in my public folder on my Google
drive at:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5Pc25a4cOM2ZjRKUmZUZlRXNzA&usp=shar
ing
Nowhere in this does the active LENR powder
components get exposed to SiC. The ceramic coil form wrapped around the
stainless pipe is just a resistor coil form like any wire-wound resistor you
buy off the shelf. These outer things are only resistive heaters that are
outside the stainless pipe.
Speculation about SiC being involved would
need separate evidence from what is inside the stainless assembly, because
any SiC potentially in the resistive heaters does not participate in the
LENR reaction as anything but a resistive heater.
Bob
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