It should be a relatively simple matter for those who have been playing with automotive catalytic converters as LENR boxes. Add phos to the mix & see what happens...
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > Connect-the-dots... and ... the devil is in the details... > > (for those who are not accustomed to weekend postings on vortex, the > following account may be partly factual, partly wild guesswork, and partly > attempted cynical humor). > > The "secret sauce" of Andrea Rossi, which is the identity of the > ingredient(s) besides nickel which makes his reaction more robust than the > others in the progression ... going back to Piantelli and Thermacore, circa > 1991, has been a subject of intrigue since his original demonstration. > > IOW in the early 1990's substantial thermal gain was seen or claimed with > Ni-H reactors - in the tens of watts level at low COP, but twenty years > later - something which Andrea Rossi added to the nickel, perhaps > inadvertently, allowed a more robust gain, going into the kilowatt level. > > More recently, many including the geniuses at NASA have suspected that SPP > was the key to understanding... but SPP (surface plasmon polaritons) > requires photon emission. Things did not add up. > > BTW - up until the time of his 2011 demo, Rossi was paying his bills by > working as a metal fabricator in New Hampshire (basically copper pipe > fabrication, aka: plumber). This is no secret and he admits it on his blog. > > In retrospect, what was once a secret is that Rossi's breakthrough was > probably always there, "in plain view", as they say. Hidden in plain view - > it is almost laughable in the continuing Rossi saga. > > The next devilish dot to connect: P or phosphorous or "Phos". > > Every good plumber uses phosphorus self-fluxing alloy, called Phos, since > the element P is an extremely reactive nonmetallic (metalloid) element, a > pentavalent pnictogen, a compound of which was once called "lucifer's > powder" but which is seldom mentioned as a reactant in LENR. Phosphorus is > the element which allows cigarettes to be lit with matches, and allows SPP > to be lit in a reactor. Phosphorescence is the general term for a > light-emitting material. That lack of prior mention in the LENR field is > why > P could have remained Rossi's "secret" for so long, not to mention that > Rossi himself was probably unaware of this detail until sometime near the > end of 2012. > > A strange design "feature" of E-Cat, which has been noted from the early > days of Rossi is his crude (appearance) copper reactors which were brazed > in > a way which leaves a lot of residue near the joint. This residue turns > black, and gives the appearance of crude craftsmanship - but in fact, it is > nearly impossible to braze good joints that do not look this way since you > risk a leak when you go for pretty. > > Phosphorus-containing brazing alloys are used for this in many applications > as a substitute for welding, since they are self-fluxing, when joining > copper to copper, making strong joints at minimal cost. Self-fluxing > phosphorus alloys when in contact with nickel produce nickel phosphides. > Paper of interest: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja403440e > > Anyway, the first form of elemental phosphorus to be produced by alchemists > and magicians in the Middle Ages was white phosphorus, aka magician's dust, > which can explode violently, and emits a faint glow upon exposure to air, > and was called lucifer's powder, referring to the light-bearer of Gnostic > tradition. Finally there is the dot called "Chemiluminescence" of which > nickel phosphide is a prime candidate, which will in fact provide the > photons which are required for SPP. > > If the above "connect-the-dots" scenario is correct, then now we know the > identity of Rossi's secret sauce = Phos. And the curious thing is that > Rossi > may not have realized the secret himself until later. This can explain why > he may have had so much trouble in replicating the device for observers in > early 2012 - since if he tried to make his reactor look pretty for the > guests, by eliminating the flux from the brazed joints; but in so doing, > Rossi probably also eliminated the phosphorus which bleeds into the inner > wall; and it took him some time to figure out the problem. Good joints > equals no gain. > > Nowadays he probably adds "Phos," which he orders from Bellman, directly to > the nickel so that he does not have to worry about his sloppy brazing > technique as the secret sauce ... > > http://products.bellmanmelcor.com/viewitems/copper-phosphorous-brazing-alloy > s-and-preforms/copper-phosphorous-brazing-alloys > > ...or else, Andrea is getting his practical magic direct from Lucifer ... > > Poser: why is Lucifer called the "dark side" ? > >
