This is something I've wondered about with the E-Cat. Has anyone ever seen Rossi vacuum the air out of a chamber before adding hydrogen? I can't recall a single instance--suggesting he leaves the air in. It's an interesting conjecture that the air may actually serve a purpose of putting the brakes on the reaction.
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > Air poisoning of the reaction has been an iron clad rule in Ni/H > technology from its beginning. Now Rossi has overcome this poisoning no no. > > > > One way that this might happen is that the reaction no longer occurs in > the gas phase where the nitrogen in the air and hydrogen can mix. The > hydrogen might become chemically bound to any number of elements like > lithium and/or carbon after it is released from the lithium aluminum > hydride storage medium leaving the nitrogen floating above it all far from > the reaction site. > > > > The reaction might be occurring in solid form with hydrogen bound to some > other combination of elements. Lithium seems the most likely chemical mate > for the hydrogen solid state storage system because of the high > temperatures needed to release the hydrogen from the lithium. > > > > This implies that the reaction occurs in two parts. The nickel powder > produces an EMF beam that reaches out from beyond the nickel particle and > affects the hydride at some considerable distance from the nickel particle. > > > > When the hydrogen is in gaseous form, the nitrogen poisons it. However > when the hydrogen becomes chemically bound in a hydride, it can participate > in the reaction. > > > > This is a great burnout control technique because temperature rises will > reduce the intensity of the hydrogen reaction in the solid state. This > gas poisoning in the gaseous state puts a ceiling on how high the > temperature of the reactor can go. >
