Posts by Alan Smith

Hi Paradigmnoia - At Lookingforheat.com we have 16 gauge super-Kanthal in stock - if that's close enough. Drop me a mail there and I will sort you some out.

I do have a spectroscope, will have to see what it shows. You never know, little analytical work has been published (that I have access to anyway) on what happens when you torture Ni/H systems like this.

Hi Axil. Absolutely with you on points 2 and 3, but will reserve my position on point 1 until we see what happens when the beast is fired up.

Paradigmnoia said

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....but does not help much for X-rays unless you stand waaay back.

Have no fear old chap. Was looking after a 250kV X-ray machine when I was hardly out of short trousers. And I have plenty of shielding and some excellent detection gear.

In a post on his blog, Rossi said "1- it took place inside a plant about 20 meters long, 3 meters high, 3 meters wide, obviously closed" - this actually sounds like (loosely) 2X30foot containers. One was said to contain the control system, so that leaves another one spare for reactors.

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I thought there was a back-up array, consisting of the old 50x 20kW e-cats also in the shipping container, along with the 4x 250kW e-cats. One could imagine these could take over on off days, if they were indeed actually present in the container.

No room! I'm pretty sure this was only a 20 foot container.

And the share price of WPCT remain unchanged (as of 30 minutes ago) since IH is only a small part of their portfolio.

@Paradigmnoia

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But it sure has the, ahem, potential to be nasty.

I think the chances of catching a stray 400kV electrical hit are hopefully small. Keep one hand in your pocket when working with EHT is a good policy. (Not holding your nuts though) Good chance stray HT might screw a few instruments though. However, because of the (probable) impossibility of getting useful data out of a system running a permanent 400kV plasma-arc the plan is to use the arc in bursts only.

BTW, someone earlier in the thread asked about Quartz tubes with plain end-caps.LFH have just put into stock some low-cost 130X10mm Quartz tubes with a 2mm wall thickness. We also have plain fittings for them, or can engineer any extra fittings (tubes, valves etc) for the end-caps you fancy.

axil. Thanks for the link- I had read the Klimov paper but some time ago - a useful reminder. I note he was also using Nickel Electrodes. I have plenty of lead shielding, and good Beta/Gamma/X-ray detection. Unlike Klimov and co though I wont be adding copper and iron to the fuel- but more on that later.

@Wytennbach

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[Since the R.Mills (about 50 papers), Parkhomow (about 6 papers), Mizuno (ICCF 11 p. 161) et all's experiments it is well known, that low voltage and high current is the key to successful LENR reactions. High current leads to a high B field which is able to align protons/deuterions and thus forming a kind of condensed "readberg-matter".

We have that. All Lookingforheat's reactors are designed to operate at 50V and around 10A. This is for safety reasons as well as boosting the B field inside the reactor. So I am thinking of a system with several triggers here. We have 1. Heat, 2, B-Field, 3. HT (400kV).

The heater coils- will post a picture later - are split into 4 parts- 2 groups of 2. The induced EM field goes N-S/ N-S/ N-S/N-S along the reactor - but coils 1 and 3, and 2 and 4 are driven by separate DC-PWM circuits which are designed to 'heterodyne' with non-synchronised square waves at 16kHz. So we will have a great deal going on.

Thank you for your interest. My own thought on a name btw was 'PlasmaCat'.....

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Dusty plasma, aka heterogeneous plasmoid were discussed by some Russian teams at ICFF19. you should look.

I was there, Alain.

And so am I.

Hi bjt2. This patent has been discussed on ECW and I also posted a summary/overview of the patent on Lookingforheat.com. I have been unable to track down any replications, or indeed anything else that these guys did. And FWIW, it was never a patent, but only an application.

I support your plea, Hank, and I know how passionately you care about this matter. But must suggest two things. Firstly, tone it down a bit, you are not helping ME356's stated worry about the amount of attention he will attract, and secondly please give up on asking the representatives of IH for information, all you will get is the 'official line'.

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One more time - the "ERV" report is not a confidential document because Penon did not mark it as such.

Does this mean that Rossi and IH never signed a mutual NDA? Because the report was paid for (in part) by IH, and would therefore not be Rossi's to release.

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The infrared lasers which Holmlid is using are often used as a source of far ultraviolet (XUL) radiation

You lost me there. Please explain.

Yes, thank you for the Nautilus link Zephir. Very interesting and very readable.

But not this one.

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Thermal runaway in mullite is fairly common.

MFMP use Mullite I believe, no runaways so far.

AndreaS.No. This was what might be termed 'a private show'. And the reactor was very similar to the Lugano device.

[quote='Thomas Clarke','https://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/index.php/Thread/3232-To-discus-the-science-behind-the-dispute-between-Rossi-and-Industrial-Heat/?postID=19972#post19972']There is oxygen from the Ni powder which will have oxide surface unless passivated (and then will have carbonate etc surface). and as Tom points out there are other sources. (Somone will correct me if wrong on this).

Since de-oxidation of the Nickel is a standard part of the preparation procedure (and I do not think CO2 passivation of anything except the very small amount of nano-lithium present in some experiments is the norm) it is very difficult to see how you could dredge up enough to be useful - or sufficiently energetic to melt a steel fuel tube wrapped in Alumina. And melt the Alumina. And if the Oxygen has already reacted with the Nickel, it is hard to imagine where else it might go -recombination with free Hydrogen gas seems unlikely and because of the small quantities involved equally unlikely to produce much in the way of exothermy. A gram or two of Nitroglycerine might release enough energy to bust a reactor, but that would result in fragmentation -not a meltdown. As for other sources capable of the relatively slow release of this kind of energy, what are they?