Dear Jack, Please indulge me some more suggestions. The Cravens and Rossi experience clearly shows the importance of sizing micro particles to be black body temperature resonant diameter.
At 400C, a 5 micro particle size is ideal. Cravens uses a bigger particle size because he needs to operate at a lower (80C) temperature. It is important to produce a rough surface on these micro particles, ideally to form a nanowire coating. This surface treatment is the Key to success in hydrogen based LENR. This process is highly protected intellectual property item used by all who are pursuing commensal LENR. As a variation on the Mizuno process to distress the surface of these 5 micron micro particles, I wonder if a Mizuno like spark pre-treatment of these micro particles floating on a mercury electrode bath might be a way to produce the required distressed micro particle surface treatment? Nickel will float on liquid mercury. Nickel is the best material for hydrogen gas based LENR because it is an almost perfect reflector of infrared photons. On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Jack Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > Axil, > > I tried fine grit sand paper and acid. I think electrolysis is so much > messier chemically than what Mizuno is doing, and it may not be possible to > reach some of the parameters very easy (temperature, surface features and > so forth). I think I would probably start up some experiments again if I > could get a gas loaded chamber. I do like Mizuno's approach of essentially > creating the nano particles through the use of electrical discharge (from a > safety perspective). > > Best regards, > Jack > > > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Jack: >> >> Did you try to roughen the surface of the lattice substrate metal with >> spark discharge as Mizuno has done in his experiments. A rough reaction >> surface is the key to nanoplasmonic activity and the production of Surface >> Plasmon Polaritons. >> >> All the successful LENR experiments that I know about have used roughened >> substrate surfaces in their methods. >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Jack Cole <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Jones, >>> >>> I'm still around. :) I put my electrolysis experimentation on pause >>> after doing something like 200 experiments with nothing to convince me I >>> had found anything. I had some hope for Brillouin Energy, but after all >>> this time at SRI with no results reported, it gives me doubts about whether >>> Godes had what he thought. I decided not to pursue replicating his method >>> until something more is released from him. >>> >>> Anyway, I'm not very hopeful for nickel-based electrolysis being able to >>> produce LENR--at least nothing I have tried has convinced me. There is a >>> lot to convince me that false positives are easy to obtain when you are >>> looking for lower levels of excess heating. It needs to be the last >>> conclusion you come to after considering alternatives and designing >>> experiments to test the alternatives. Time after time, the results of my >>> follow up experiments supported the alternative explanation. I'm hoping the >>> Rossi report comes out positive as the probability of a false positive at >>> his previously-reported power levels would be nearly impossible to obtain. >>> >>> Just to summarize, I tried various materials (Nicrome, constantan, >>> nitinol, thoriated tungsten, cuprothal, all of the above plated with >>> nickel) and various types of triggering (AC, pulsed DC, alternating DC with >>> pulsed AC, high frequency/high current AC alternating with DC, external >>> heating, laser, permanent magnet, different electrolytes). I tried slow >>> loading over several days to a week at low current followed by active runs >>> and attempts to trigger. I tried prepping material in light acid followed >>> by cleaning with acetone. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Jack >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> 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 >>>> <http://www.micromeritics.com/Repository/Files/The_Heat_of_Adsorption_of_Hydrogen_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 >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
