Jack,
Good find. It appears they have switched to TiMn2. In the earlier literature, the penta-nickel alloy was mentioned. That would seem to change expectations. It could still be worth the effort to try this in a low powered experiment - since Cravens is getting good results using hydrofill. Titanium is a Mills catalyst, yet the attractive part of Lanthanum for LENR seemed to the fact that when alloyed with nickel – protons only are absorbed as a true hydride – yet with almost no binding energy. It is also ferromagnetic. I’m not sure about TiMn2. With most of the other good hydrogen storage materials, H2 is absorbed as a molecule not as a true hydride. Normally a true hydride has substantial binding energy. Lanthanum also has nearly identical mass energy to the Higgs Boson, but that is probably meaningless in this context. From: Jack Cole Hi Jones, I was looking into the hydrostik in more detail. It does not appear to be based on LaNi5, but rather TiMn2. http://www.udomi.com/downloads/UserManualHydrostikv8.pdf Would this affect your thoughts on the possible experiment you suggested? Best, Jack On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: For those who have not followed this closely – here is the HydroStik at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8 <http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=hydrostik&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=31836180062&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=911050133634104149&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_8lx5y0uvt7_e> &keywords=hydrostik&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=31836180062&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=911050133634104149&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_8lx5y0uvt7_eWhich is loaded with LaNi5 – a good alloy for absorbing hydrogen. It looks like it costs Dennis 25 bucks per sphere refill, since the cartridge is sacrificed. Thanks, Bob – Do you know if he gets excess heat from H as well as D? You seem to be suggesting that the most heat (most desirable mix) comes from a mix of H and D, is that correct? From: Bob Higgins I have moved west, and Dennis Cravens is just a couple miles away. I visited him recently. In his lab he still has long term tests operating with his spheres (of course, along with other experiments in progress). He said that he charged a HydroStik and then froze it at dry ice temperature. At this temp, the hydride is not releasing any hydrogen and he cut the hydrostik open and added its contents to the sphere. Dennis produces his own hydrogen using a PEM generator and frequently works with an H2/D2 mix that he produces by filling his PEM generator with the desired mix of light and heavy water.
