Hydrogen movement is a old trick in nuclear reactors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen-moderated_self-regulating_nuclear_power_module
As the temperature goes up, the hydrogen goes away from the site of the reaction. The question for us is how Rossi has engineer passive temperature based failsafe control into his reactor by moving hydrogen around inside his reactor. Or did he do it through luck....Or has he done it at all... On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > Another advantage that this conjecture might imply is that the nickel > particles will suffer far less isotopic transmutation damage from the > gaseous hydrogen if the particles were poisons by air. > > Is Rossi this clever or are we overestimating his genius? > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Jack Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. >>> >> >> >
