Carbon is the very good material to build a very high temperature reactor out of. It doesn't melt and stays together up to 3642 °C. Without a doubt, a carbon reactor and/or a tungsten one (3422 °C) is the way to go.
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > Bob, all > > > > If Rossi can be believed, he did not use CNT (at least not originally) but > instead - his tubules are made of nickel via a proprietary process which > adds porosity and surface features. > > > > Nickel is ductile and CNT are stiff and 500% stronger than nickel. But CNT > is not a spillover catalyst, like nickel. In short the original recipe can > probably be improved, and may have been improved already. > > > > Given all of the info out there from various sources, it would seem that a > superior Ni-H reactor media would be composed of carbon nanotubes on which > nickel has been deposited... or preferably a nickel alloy. The Romanowski > alloys are far superior to nickel, palladium or anything else as spillover > catalysts. The citation is in the archives. > > > > *From:* Bob Cook > > > > It sounds like Jones thinks that a combination of CNT's (the hairs) and Ni > distributed on their surface some how is what Rossi has used. > > > > Jones. Is this what you meant by: " > > "It would probably be more productive to come at this from the standpoint > of adding something to CNT instead of subtracting something from nickel?" > > > > > > > >
