Special thanks should be accorded to Dennis Cravens for his openness and the great detail of information which he has provided on a most important experiment. He deserves a big award for this work, even if it turns out not to be nuclear fusion, per se - and especially if it does turn out to be LENR. Why hasn't a National Lab replicate this important work? (Rhetorical question and the answer is obvious).
For the record - here is more background on LaNi5, which is looking more-and-more like the magic bullet for Ni-H thermal effects when combined with a magnetic field (this combination could be in order to reach a superparamagnetic state of self-resonance). http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/j100476a006 I should caution that all of the analysis in this thread wrt to LaNi5 is a personal and minority appraisal, and that Dennis Cravens along with almost everyone else who was involved or saw the experiment, considers it to be a version of the Les Case work, involving the fusion of deuterium. Why not? It is fully derivative of that line of experimental work and so on ... but ... that may not be sufficient. IMHO there are good reasons to suspect that there is no nuclear reaction and the thermal anomaly is related to magnetic interaction with the zero point field and with ground-state redundancy, which is different from the Mills model in several important ways (but also similar in one way). LaNi5 is like few other proton conductors (or hydrogen storage alloys) in its physical properties, especially combined with magnetic properties. With or without a Casimir boost, this route should be adequate for gain. Had Jovion of Moddel realized the properties of LaNi5, we would not be having this conversation. Superparamagnetism and fluorescence show up in nanoparticles of La alloys. This alloy absorbs significantly more hydrogen than palladium through pure chemisorption at an unbelievably rapid rate. Plus, and most notably, almost 100% of the element lanthanum is high-spin (7/2) with extreme NMR properties. Protons are absorbed directly into the alloy, instead of as atoms or molecules, and there is an huge variance (in magnetic properties) between protons and atoms. Hyperfine structure due to spin and Rydberg states interact in a mysterious way, and from the perspective of Rydberg values in Mills' theory, the La alloy when in a crystal unit at a ratio with nickel of 5:1, we have a persistent orbital vacancy or "hole" an seemingly without ionization, due only to an orbital vacancy - of enthalpy corresponding to 191.9 eV, as opposed to the optimum value of 190.4 eV. In short, that near-perfect fit makes LaNi5 look like the real-deal for thermal anomalies in a modified (alternative) Millsean understanding which can be called "cold f/H" since the redundant state follows chemisorption and is a relic of the expulsion of labile protons from the metal matrix, instead of the opposite modality. In fact, if there is UV emission, and there could be none - then it could be shed resonantly inside a Casimir pit or cavity as the proton emerges from the matrix and captures an electron at the 1/7th orbital. The downside of this short search has been trying to find an ethical supplier of LaNi5 for experimentation. LaNi5 seems to be available from several sources in China for $25 kg in ton quantities, but chemical supply houses in the USA have inflated that price by a factor of 5,000 for small quantities. If anyone finds a good supplier for small quantities, please post the information. _____________________________________________ I just noticed a curious detail about the Cravens NI-Week demo which we have been talking about, but which many have overlooked in importance ... and especially one particular datum of info. http://www.infinite-energy.com/images/pdfs/NIWeekCravens.pdf On page 3, Dennis explains "lnside the sphere is a hydrogen storage material. We used material taken from a commercial fuel cell storage metal (Hydrofil) that was loaded with deuterium." As best I can tell from online sources, the storage metal used in this Hydrofill cartridge is known as proprietary AB5, but in reality is the generic hydrogen storage alloy- LaNi5 which is lanthanum penta-nickel. Whoa... that rings a bell so to speak. This material was predicted some time ago to be active on its own for thermal gain in reversible storage situations due to one special property. That property would be in addition to lanthanum being almost exactly the mass-energy of the Higgs boson :-) http://www.micromeritics.com/Repository/Files/The_Heat_of_Adsorption_of_Hydr ogen_Gas_on_Lanthanum_Pentanickel.pdf Here are several far-out predictions based on gut feeling and 6th sense intuition based somewhat on Higgs and somewhat on nanomagnetism - 1) Cravens device depends on the unique chemisorption properties of LaNi5 combined with a magnetic material - and will not produce as much excess heat with any other hydrogen storage material, but will work with H2 as well or better than with D2. 2) Rossi's HotCat also uses LaNi5 for hydrogen storage in connection with a magnetic device in the form of a heating coil, and will not produce as much excess heat with any other hydrogen storage material. Thanks to Jack Cole for noticing this detail about LaNi5 last year. Apparently the trick is to use LaNi5 in the context of a magnetic field, assuming of course that this is premonition is correct. Where are you Jack? If these hunches are close, then we may have almost cracked the mystery. If not, and it comes up short once again... well... we can call it a 5th sense... :-) Jones
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