BTE-Dan: Replication Attempt for This Week

Building a QuarkX reactor does not seem to be that complicated.

Use Boron Nitride as the reactor tube to support temperature upto 3000C.

see post below for background.

Rossi Replication Technology

Put some Aluminum Lithium Hydride enriched in Lithium 7 (99%) in the tube based on the size of the tube.

Use nickel electrodes at each end of the tube.

Preheat the tube to at least 2000C.

Set up a very high voltage DC induced electrostatic field (50 to 100 kilovolts as per Rossi's patent) between the electrodes that does NOT involve the production of a spark.

https://patentscope.wipo.int/s…621/PDOC/WO2016018851.pdf

Configure a quadrupole magnetic field with the center of the quadrupole centered along the axis of the tube.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.05249.pdf

From

Nucleon polarizability and long range strong

force from I=2 meson exchange potential

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Special electromagnetic fields The special electromagnetic fields that are

required for extracting energy out of a nucleon is a magnetic quadrupole or a

changing electric field. An important factor is that Heff > 0 should be done for

the total reaction. Otherwise the total interaction corresponds to an excitation.

This means that only the center of an magnetic quadrupole is relevant where

there is no dipole field. For the electric dispersive polarizability this is a problem

since a time derivative always should increase or decrease a field not to have

a nonzero component which implies that the dipole polarizability should be

dominant at some point except for extremely fast oscillating fields with a weak

strength.

For spin polarizability the special condition are easiest seen from the source

of the spin polarizability [10]:

p = γ∇􀀀¯ S • ¯B where p is the polarization, B is the magnetic field and S is the spin of the

nucleon. From this one can deduct that to extract energy from spin polarizability

a magnetic field must go through the spin axis of nucleon.

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If the tube stays hot at 2000C or above, then the reactor is working.

axil Regarding the use of a Quadrupole.... Exactly....! It's this part that captured my eyes when I read it and made me think there may well be something in it. Then when started at this point and read through the rest I could see how they were trying to walk the reader through their ideas. There may be broader need for the test data of the QuarkX itself but to me the theoretical discussion was very intelligent despite what some others think. But I suppose you need to understand the significance of that point you raise here first.

Regarding the initial heating are you sure the active part of the QuarkX was initially heated to 2000 deg C? I missed it in this paper? I'm sure the Hot Cat could well have been but I wonder if the QuarkX used some other kind of stimulation?

Edit: Sorry BTE-Dan for getting a bit of Topic there... I jumped in with out reading the whole thread. Good luck with your test. It's really good to see yet another experimenter/replicator trying this.

The QX design has changed over time. It initially produced 100 watts at first then it was downsized to 20 watts. Now it is up to 240 watts in the latest version. The 100 watt QX temperature was just beyond the melting point of nickel. Now in the 240 watt version, its temperature is up to 2700C. Rossi when through a period of burnups where the alumina was not standing up to the high heat produced by the QX. He came up with a ultra high temperature replacement tube design which I beleive is Boron nitride. Rossi had to convert a block of this stuff into a tube so he says that he has created something that you can;t find on the market, There are no small such Boron nitride capillary tubes on the market. The magnetic field cannot pass through a metal tube so the tube must be a good electrical insulator like Boron nitride,

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Given my set-up capabilities - any ideas?

Some thoughts: (1) Be systematic. Try controlling for one variable at a time. (2) Try adding a medium or heavy element to the "fuel," such as lead, tungsten, platinum or cesium.

I don't suggest that (2) is a particularly promising lead, but it's something I see few people trying.

Quote from David Fojt

It could be possible also to put Inside reactor a Cobalt rod (close to powder) to do that.

From Craig Cassarino's notes from communications with Industrial Heat an "iron core" is mentioned, but the circumstances of how it's used and how it did come up in discussions are not clear.

http://coldfusioncommunity.net…-01-Exhibit-22.pdf#page=5

http://coldfusioncommunity.net/amped-up-on-ampenergo/

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Strength of magnetic field

magnetic field of electricity flowing in wire

coils around iron core T3

1000 x stronger than coils only

.... "I think Piantelli has mentioned that heavy elements like Tungsten can give rise to radiation problems - or perhaps they are opportunities?"

Check CF literature form URSS on Tungsten bronzes [1990-92].

can

TWO separate sources for TWO radiative yields.

Cassarino text is " special fuel", not "spent fuel".

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The QX design has changed over time. ...

Axil - in order to better understand for all of us: is there any design at all, that has changed (all this is pure Rossisays so far, or can you shed some more "indipendent" light on this groundbreaking invention?)

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TWO separate sources for TWO radiative yields.

That there may be two separate sources is also apparent in the attached pictures below, more or less. As for their actual role, it's less clear, although hinted in the source for the first picture. Whether Ni+LiAlH4(+Li) actually fits within this description is unknown.

@David Fojt

From what I understand in the above example, the charges - assumed to be in the form of free powders - are located on the opposite ends of a sealed stainless steel (SS310) tube vessel (which is permeable to hydrogen above 800-900°C as you described in another thread).

@David Fojt

At that point I think the steel wall itself could become a host for the reaction rather than the Ni.

However, I think this is different than what Ahlfors was trying to write.

can

The second source don't fit.

Ahlfors

For the sake of clarity can you be more descriptive here? Doesn't fit as in "not related with"? Do you mean the "Ni+LiAlH4(+Li)" part of my comment?

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Some thoughts: (1) Be systematic. Try controlling for one variable at a time. (2) Try adding a medium or heavy element to the "fuel," such as lead, tungsten, platinum or cesium.

I don't suggest that (2) is a particularly promising lead, but it's something I see few people trying.

FWIW, I tried tungsten as an additive with no effect in the past. Others have tried, if I'm not mistaken, uranium from old Fiestaware plates. I think Brian Albiston tried it with null results.