This foundry video from Shaun has been making the rounds as his indication of "something happening" at Steorn:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152222002268977&set=vb.644973976&type =2&theater There is an interesting side note here, if you watch the previous iron pour to the right-front of the present pour, in the video. What you see is "recalescence," which is a reheating effect of cooling - in essence, cooling is converted into heating and this is a known phase-change reaction that has killed thousands of foundry workers going back to the start of the iron age. One further piece of the puzzle of thermal gain in Ni-H can be related to recalescence via spin-coupling - and this relates to a known mechanism for converting cooling into heat - via the latent heat of crystallization. We have discussed recalescence several times before. It is controversial because of the fatality at SRI ... and Brian Ahern's argument that recalescence was to blame. http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg11242.html Without revisiting that particular episode, there is a stronger case to be made for recalescence with hydrogen loaded nickel instead of either palladium-silver or carbon steel. The phenomenon is a good fit if it were found to produce thermal gain due to reversible phase change between BCC and FCC, which would happen over-and-over again around the Curie point. The ultimate source of energy would then be in question and could even be non-nuclear - possibly related to Dirac "nanomagnetism" in a way which we have touched on before. The reheating phenomenon occurs with phase change of iron - but austenite-phase nickel, especially when compounded with CNT or loaded with protons, or both, is a candidate for the anomaly at far lower temperature than with iron. BTW the anomaly is not known to be gainful in the steel industry, but until someone actually looks at thermodynamics in that context, gain could have escaped detection. The suggestion for a recalescence mode of operation which is relevant to the Rossi effect is a bit counter-intuitive. First, the active material must be heated by external means above the critical temperature, which is slightly higher than the Curie point, and then allowed to cool. Recalescence then raises the temperature back up to near the critical temperature, at which point a small bit of energy from outside must be reapplied in the next iteration, following which it is allowed to cool once again, during which cycle it once again anomalously reheats. If there is net gain, then very little external heat needs to be applied or an auto-heat mode must be controlled. The Curie point and critical temperature in alloys are two different phenomena of energetic phase change. They could be connected at a fundamental level which is not appreciated now, especially when a proton conductor is involved, since protons provide the mobility which would be needed to balance the thermodynamics on a knife's edge. The Curie point is the temperature in which ferromagnetic materials become paramagnetic and critical temperature is the temperature at which alloys undergo a micro-structural change to austenite or gamma phase (crystallization). With iron this phase is a non-magnetic allotrope which has caused dozens of deaths in steel mills due to the surprisingly strong reheating effect (which happens on cool-down, so it is unexpected). Basically when falling below the critical temperature, there is enough latent thermal energy (which seems to magically appear) to allow the BCC or body centered cubic structure (aka pearlite) to expand and reorient, allowing carbon atoms to move into an ordered crystalline structure, forming the face centered cubic structure, austenite. If this can happen with carbon in regular steel, and in nickel stainless steel with no carbon, then there is the suspicion that with in nickel/CNT, the effect could be enhanced by the increased strength of the CNT - which would be resisting phase change as well as proton loading. For the Rossi effect, one can imagine that this is repeatable in a cyclical progression so long as too much heat were not removed. SIDE NOTE and reality check: I have to laugh at the above - on reread. It is essentially using a Steorn video to validate the Rossi experiment. LOL. Is there any less convincing way on earth to validate any experiment ? Jones
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