Jones--
Thanks for those interesting observation of history. The force of not being
wrong illustrated by this history or at least an interpretation of the history
is something that should be taught in freshman physics (science) classes. It
is an explanation of the skeptopathic mind set that has not been said well in
the past books on the LENR coverup.
Along with others I hope Mill’s invention works.
Bob CooK
From: George Holz
I agree with all of Mills’ objections to SQM but I have my
own GUT ideas which include other reasons for sub ground states with
somewhat different energy levels and mechanisms formation. I like Mills for
the large number of good experiments which prove for me the existence of
below ground energy states in hydrogen. Unlike Mills my theory does not
allow easy calculation of the exact energy levels for fractional states but
the first few states should be similar.
Hi George,
Please publish your theory. It can only help. One problem with Mills own
concept, which was apparent from the early days is there were no strong
spectral lines where there should have been. Then, to try to cover his
tracks on this devastating situation, he concocted this bogus cop-out called
“continuum radiation” which really means: “oops, no hydrogen spectral lines
are seen where they should be”.
Thermacore, in contrast, documented a strong peak at 55 eV in testing done
at Lehigh on residual hydrogen from nickel capillary tubes, after a long
successful run - but Mills never gave convincing evidence of anything at
that level or lower, AFAIK. The University testing was done with X-rays
(ESCA - Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis) which would serve to
reinflate the fractional species. Thus the results at Lehigh could be
considered to support an alternative version of the theory, based on the
same Rydberg levels, but inverted - in the way the energy is derived. Yet
even the authors (Gernert et al) of the paper praised Mills, and did not
mention, or may not have understood, that things were not as pretty as they
should be when this UV radiation turned up, as it did.
Nowadays, Mills has shown higher level peaks in other experiments, but not
all of them are at Rydberg multiples, and still nothing indicating the lower
Rydberg lines as convincingly as this old work. Most importantly, since the
Thermacore effort found the signature line (which could also indicate the
presence of dissolved helium from LENR), many weeks after the experiment was
run, this indicates that the UV emission was most likely derived from
“reinflation” of the fractional hydrogen stored in the nickel. How else
could UV be delayed? This is detail documented in the paper:
http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/GernertNnascenthyd.pdf
What this paper could really mean (in the worst case interpretation) is that
Mills theory is completely confused in cause/effect modality, in that the
energy gain comes on reinflation of hydrinos, not on shrinkage. At best it
would be net energy in both directions, if the Lehigh results are correct.
But - there is also an implication that forcing the ground state redundancy
could be endothermic, and yet highly asymmetric, thus gain comes mostly on
the return of hydrinos to Hydrogen … and it is net gain due to the asymmetry
of the reaction (the shrinkage is slightly endothermic and the reinflation
is highly exothermic).
This explains why there is no large supply of hydrinos in nature. It is a
transient species unless compressed within a metal matrix. The bottom line –
in the nineties, is that Mills terminated his relationship with Thermacore,
in order to protect his theory and his IP - which was no doubt a huge
mistake for everyone but BLP. Thermacore could build working devices and
Mills has not proven that he can.
I believe that Thermacore could have taken the nickel capillary concept and
made it into a commercial product many years ago, had they not split with
Mills and then been bought by Modine in an economic downturn… but doing so
(going commercial) would mean revising major parts of Mills theory, which
was not going to happen then, so long as he could prevent it.
Jones
