Thomas Clarke: There were always runaways, always something is burned or melted in a short time with excess heat in the previous experiments.
The latest reactor design will be cooled by air for the first tests to check what it can handle. This one is designed to handle such extra heat even without cooling (at least until nickel will melt).
But later it will be cooled by water + insulated very well and then there will be nearly no thermal losses. And this will be condition when SSM mode can be achieved without too much effort.
me356: Reactor parameters [part 2]
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I have a question about me356,
to know how to talk about him when presenting him, and to simply better understand who he is.A short biography would interest lot of readers...
At least, an anonym one...My question : is me356 pure anonym ? Or is his identity known by some in private, or is it public ???
Do we know his professionnal background ?Thx in advance for your answer or your link, to know more, to better understand.
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Thomas Clarke: There were always runaways, always something is burned or melted in a short time with excess heat in the previous experiments.
The latest reactor design will be cooled by air for the first tests to check what it can handle. This one is…It sounds like you are working your way towards a Rossi-type design, similar to the E-Cat pictured in Mat Lewans book. Sounds promising but please do make sure you have 5mm lead shielding in place before you start the run with air cooling, and either boric acid or sodium polyborate in the water when you switch over to water cooling for SSM operation and accurate calorimetry. There is no need to suffer runaways PROVIDED you have big enough heat sinks (e.g. thick steel plates) close to well-spread-out (e.g. thin layers of) fuel mixture, stay below 1200 degrees C AND ensure the heater is NOT touching any of the fuel mixture, only touching the heat sinking plates (like in Rossi's patent). I suggest you only lag your apparatus after the first trial run. Good luck...
Forget plasma & W.
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amos: Yes, I can see some paths. But to make it work without any heat output is a different matter. But I believe it is possible.
Citoyen Curieux: Even if you know someone personally, you can't find what his real intention is. You know many scientists from LENR field. And how it helped you?
Words are really not important,
On the other hand, there are many people you can read about. But is this really true?
How anybody can know that for example Andrea Rossi is fraud or not?
Unless you are absolutely sure and there are clear facts (not these facts construed in your head), then you can someone call fraud.
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My question : is me356 pure anonym ?
No, his true identity is known to some, including Bob Greenyer of MFMP. Bob worked sided by side with me356 for several days on testing the "Padua cell" after last year's ICCF. Bob and me356 have made plans for Bob to visit and observe me356's current experiment(s) during the week beginning 16-May.
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[quote='amos',>@me356</a>, do you see a path to direct production of electricity or light like the Quark X?[/quote]
My "expectation" is that Rossi's Quark-X is not really an E-Cat at all, hence the new name. I imagine it's a further development by Rossi of the new Russian battery technology (>=50 year life without ever having to recharge) developed for aerospace applications and medical implants based on the 63 isotope of nickel (which emits safe beta- particles). See this link:-
http://sputniknews.com/science…tists-nuclear-batter.htmlIf you research how the 63 isotope of nickel is manufactured and separated (in Russia) you will see that it's very expensive and will only be used for specialist applications. There are obviously several cheaper, well-known ways to generate electricity using the HEAT from an E-Cat type device.
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An old colleague of Martin Fleischmann told me about a setup he made which produced huge amounts of "radiation" coming from it. The scientist should have died, or at least lost his hand, but he did not even receive a headache working with it. The radiation was dubbed "Messhugahnouts" (not sure about the spelling).
According to the claim, whatever the radiation was, it turned out to be very easy to shield completely. My point being that if we are dealing with a new process, and something comes out that is picked up by a Neutron detector, it must not necessarily have all the characteristics of a Neutron as we knew them.
Looking forward following this a bit closer and hope to hear more soon.-
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Axils and LFH Sam posts above about neutral particles have got me wondering about about both neutral Meson and more complex heavy neutral particle detection. I wonder how those neutral particles would be detected.
If we have neutral mesons I suppose those would eventually go to muons, electrons, positrons or gamma, so maybe beta/gamma detectors at different distances with shields for blocking charged particles in between may help identify them.
If we have larger more complex neutral particles such as maybe bits of Holmlids and H(0) or D(0) (I suppose they are small enough to leak through most materials) or these "Messhugahnouts" being ejected could these be detected with neutron detectors or is some other method required? I wonder if Sveinn Ólafsson can help us with some suggestions there.
I think Sveinn has suggested before that LENR replicators should maybe look for muons, but I'm not sure if he has recommended looking for heavier mass neutral particles although I think I recall they did detect them.
Would those larger particles look like neutrons to other nuclei with high cross sections for neutron capture such as Boron 10 but produce other daughter products than expected I wonder? Or would they instead be stimulated to collapse or disintegrate into to some other form maybe back to H(1) or D(1) or normal H2 gas? I rather like the last option.
If heavy neutral particles exist, I wonder if the E-Cats are in water if that water somehow captures or transforms or disintegrates all these heavy neutral particles in those devices. Can HRM persist in water, or in an oxygenated environment? Even if they are not destroyed by water, it might actually be useful if they are stable and can be captured and stored, and later released and collected by evaporation of the water. I wonder what they could be used for apart from LENR. My apologies if that last bit is a bit speculative and bad Science.
Would it make sense to have a new thread to discuss neutral particle detection?
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Citoyen Curieux: Even if you know someone personally, you can't find what his real intention is. You know many scientists from LENR field. And how it helped you?Words are really not important,On the other hand, there are many people you can read about. But is this really true?How anybody can know that for example Andrea Rossi is fraud or not?Unless you are absolutely sure and there are clear facts (not these facts construed in your head), then you can someone call fraud.You can hear only bad things about anyone, while reality is completely different.
Your words are mine, me356...But,
if we take the initiative to talk (elsewhere) on the web about this LENR topic, in this case about you,
you know we're supposed to know what we are talking about,
in particularly compared with the snakes that lurk.So, you're anonymous for us,
but some scientists involved know you, like in MFMP group.Nothing new to me, then, I was aware of that,
and it's not a problem to my eyes,but I for sure know what I'm taking about, now,
and then, I know how to talk about your story without getting easily bitten...
At least, not on that point.
Keep your good work up !
About snakes, if it can musicaly please some of you :
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I wonder if hydrinos (if they exist) can cause bubbles in a neutron detector. This would leave the surroundings non-activated?
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I am sure that Ni-H reaction can yield also real neutrons and that probability that I am measuring neutrons is very high.
This was verified long time ago even by Sergio Focardi, yet the excess heat was relatively very small. Now imagine what can happen with much stronger reaction.Citoyen Curieux: You can think whatever, but I dont intend to make any impression. I am doing just what is needed to reach desired target. I need only time, nothing more.
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Thank you.
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I am sure that Ni-H reaction can yield also real neutrons and that probability that I am measuring neutrons is very high.
This was verified long time ago even by Sergio Focardi, yet the excess heat was relatively very small. Now imagine what can happen with much stronger reaction.Sergio Focardi may have found something which look likes neutrons but there are not. It could be a neutral particle like IRH.
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I guess your right about the neutrons, usually the simplest and logical explanation is the right one.
May I ask if you saw any activation of materials near your device that may have come from the neutrons? Or was the flux still too low at this time to get some measured effect at this time?
Would it make sense to have a small tent around the device to capture any activated material?
All the best for the followup tests this week.
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Arnaud: Neutral particle that can activate gold ... I'd say it is neutron. If not, then its properties are very similar.
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StephenC: I have had some suspicion for a few times, but fortunately readings returned to the original values.
Neutrons are yielded in a bursts. Short but can be intense, especially during ON/OFF cycle.My theory of operation is based mainly on the neutron reactions. Maybe these are not neutrons, but neutron capture mechanism can still work.
Actually I have found a way how to produce these neutrons and with required energy range (but still need to be verified)
In this way you can make reaction safe, but one failure of the control system could mean huge problem.The power potential is really huge. For power plants, this will be no issue, but advantage.
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>> Anonymous + Anyone else who wants to know more:
Please may I suggest you read Mat Lewans book and study the picture in there of Rossi's E-Cat (with its cover removed).
And then read Rossi's patent. That teaches how to assemble the "fireplace" for burning Hydrogen with Lithium.
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That demo video is exactly how we used to make dry ice for cooling photomultiplier tubes when I was in grad school. Cooling PM tubes dramatically reduces noise and is particularly important for astronomical observations.
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I am convinced enough about nuclear reactions. I am interested in the excess heat - that is also there.
Theoretical research can take at least next 20 years..Unless the theoretical research is complete, this technology will not be permitted inside anyone's home or place of work.
First comes the completion and acceptance of a valid theory, then comes the deployment of the technology.
