Here is a good writeup of the Cravens experiment/demo at NI week - which may go down as one of the most underappreciated experiments of the past decade in Physics - due to its simplicity, far-reaching implications and lack of a credible alternative explanation. If only it had been replicated by now. http://www.infinite-energy.com/images/pdfs/NIWeekCravens.pdf Actually, I think Dennis Cravens got one theoretical thing wrong - in his belief that this result indicates fusion to helium. In fact, it looks like the poster experiment for a Dirac sea explanation. It is even possible that the deuterium is fissioning to hydrogen - ala Mizuno. Has he analyzed the gases after the many-month long run? To quote from the article: So what is in that warm golden ball? It contains an activated carbon that holds metal alloy within its pores, some magnetic powder, some hydrogen storage material and some deuterium gas. It is thought that the heat is coming from the fusion of deuterium nuclei to go to helium. However, there are as many ideas of the exact reaction as there are theorists. What is clear is the mixture produces heat because the sample sphere in it is warmer than the control sphere containing a little sand. The two spheres are in a highly conductive bath of aluminum beads in a constant temperature bath designed to be uniform and to hold the temperature constant.
If one could combine this experiment with the addition of Mu metal like the
material used by Claytor, and raise the temperature of the bath to near the
Curie point - the gain could be much higher.
Actually there are a number of soft ferromagnetic alloys with a low Curie
point which should be effective for this kind of side-by-side experiment in
a thermal bath - while retaining the hard material (Sm). One in particular
which I have seen is 86 C, so it should work very well in a similar
experiment.
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Mu-metal is a nickel-iron alloy that is notable for its high
magnetic permeability. The permeability makes mu-metal useful for shielding
against static or low-frequency magnetic fields - but the same feature
should make it an excellent lattice for LENR in the sense that shielding is
a function of a material being able to internalize magnetic fields.
And there is an emerging cross-connection between Rydberg
states and magnetism, not to mention the binding energy of the Dirac sea is
itself a whole fraction (1/2) of Ry which is the Rydberg unit of energy.
Co-Netic AA, is a brand of Mu metal consisting of
nickel(80%), iron(15%), and molybdenum(5%) with permeability of 30,000 or
more. It was mentioned by Dr. Claytor recently at the MIT Colloquium as
giving his best results.
If this, or a similar alloy was to be converted into a
slightly oxidized powder, with added potassium - it could be an interesting
choice for the kind of LENR where magnetic oscillations are being optimized
- as the way to use protons to cohere vacuum energy. There would be thermal
gain, and no radiation.
In terms of Rydberg multiples, this particular mix would
have 10 unique Rydberg levels in the ionization potential of its various
constituents or 12 if we count whole fractions.
Jones
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