Folks, I am asking this question because I truly do not know the answer and clearly, I am not qualified to even begin to answer it. Maybe those who have actually studied Mills GUTCP book can help answer this question. (Mike and Robin? up for some calculations.)
This is a bounce off the other thread "Mills hydrinos is not LENR" where people speculated that hydrinos is probably not LENR. But it seems to me that if we are not so blinded by our own pet theories, that we can properly evaluate if Hydrinos H1/4 state really can explain the excess anomalous heat we get with NiH and PdD systems. Specifically for now, I want to focus on the energy balance and reactions rates. Assuming for now, that hyrdinos are the causative factor, can it explain Rossi's high temp results with the Hotcat? Consider this scenario for now. Suppose Nickel nanopowder has a catalytic function like Titanium nanopowder. The Nickel nanopowder would catalyze transition to H1/4 state and explode like we've seen in Mills explosion. Some of the nanopowder explodes, scatters, melts but still able to catalyze further reactions, cause they are still nano powder, albeit a finer nano powder like Mills claims. Hence, you have a continuous recycling of nickel nanopowder capable of catalyzing H1/4 transitions. The Temperature controls (for some reason - this is the Miracle in this scenario) the catalyzation and reaction rates. When it reaches a certain point, the reaction rates overshoot, runs away and melts the reactor. The above scenario would explain a few stubborn facts we know about LENR reactions that can never be explained satisfactorily otherwise 1. This would explain the positive feedback and run away reaction in many experiments. Control the temps, otherwise too much hydrino transistions occur and KABOOM! 2. This would also explain why there is no hard radiation. 3. This would explain why the reactions continue even at extremely high temperatures, enough to melt whatever Nickel nanostructure NAEs and even possibly to sublimate some nanopowders of Nickel itself. 4. This is certainly a more satisfying explanation than the BEC soliton formation at extremely high temps and all the convoluted explanations on how to thermalize the gammas or other hard radiation. 5. This is certainly a more satisfying explanation than BEC "metaphasic" shielding protecting the nickel nanostructures from melting. (Metaphasic shielding is another miracle that is added to the repetoire of miracles that need to be explained. It seems our theories require more miracles to explain a miracle. We end up with more miracles to explain than what we began with.) 6. (This next point is speculation so may not be a valid point.) This is certainly a more satisfying explanation to the continued presence of NAE to cause reactions to continue up to the runaway melting point of the reactor. It seems to me that once the reactor has melted, the inside environment would have been exposed to outside air hence should have quenched the BEC or solitons or whatever it is, It seems that a tiny hole in the reactor would have quickly quenched the BEC, soltions, etc reaction before it creates a bigger hole. Tell me if I am wrong on this? Didn't the Levi first Hotcat totally melt? This tells me that the reaction continued even after the inside was exposed to outside air. If you are knowledgeable enough and understand Hydrinos enough, please help me do the calculations of the energy balance. Can the hydrino transition even be catalyzed by high temps instead of high currents like in the Suncell? Jojo
