What happens inside the eCat isnt known. A magnetic field can be required (And most probably it is the case). For the cold eCat, Rossi may have used a magnet for the sake of simplicity. The wiggly filament let me think of a 2 magnetic fields that can occur inside the eCat: One global field made from AC current (cm range) and one local field made with the Rossi Italian secret sauce (µm range). Could the the wiggly secret powder sauce hit the liquefied nickel and force it for the stripping neutron with nickel? The local force might be huge enough.
I remember Rossi (2~3 years back) telling that it was an oscillating phenomenon inside the eCat. _____ From: Bob Higgins [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: jeudi 16 octobre 2014 22:51 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo I don't think there was anything this fancy in Rossi's original eCats. He had an internal cartridge heater which would have had little magnetic field escaping and it was single phase. He also had an auxiliary heater wrapped around the outside that would have had more magnetic field and it was also single phase. Who knows about a magnet? Are you thinking of the single phase light bulbs having the magnet causing the filament to wiggle back and forth for flicker effect? On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Arnaud Kodeck <[email protected]> wrote: The next question is a 3phases AC supply needed to reproduce the eCat effect? The cold eCat dont use a 3phases power supply but Rossi could have used magnet inside the cold eCat (Samarium cobalt magnet). _____ From: Bob Higgins [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: jeudi 16 octobre 2014 22:31 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo I think we are describing pretty much the same thing. Only I don't believe there is anything but refractory castable insulation in the large diameter support cylinders at the end of the convection tube. I think the heater coils are axial and the 3-phase drive produces a linear conveyer, which when it gets to the physical end of the tube will fold in on itself coaxially. Moving field is the reason for the 3-phase drive. On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Arnaud Kodeck <[email protected]> wrote: So why then does Rossi use a 3phases electrical power source? For such kind of power this not needed. 1000W uses less than 5A. So my guess is that Rossi uses the Rotating magnetic field in its Ecat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_magnetic_field ). In this schema, the end caps could be a magnetic mirror (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_mirror ). In this configuration the Ni and Li plasma cant get out of the confinement and the 3 phases give also a rotation to this field. But Im not an expert in magnetic confinement and how to achieve it. _____ From: Bob Higgins [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: jeudi 16 octobre 2014 19:00 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo Seems to me that at the temperatures we are talking about (>1000C) that bulk magnetic effects are probably out of the question. A plasma of Li would be a conductor and a conductor could be conveyed in a moving magnetic field. I don't think any motion will occur because of any bulk magnetic affects - these are all gone at this temperature. This temperature also makes it difficult to consider magnetically confined condensates as Yeong Kim has described. On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Bob Cook <[email protected]> wrote: Bob. Amaud, etal-- I had the same thought as Amaud. The wiring arrangement may be deigned to create a magnetic field inside the reactor to align magnetic moments of the various entities and facilitate resonant interactions at varying probabilities to control the rate of reaction.
