To be back on this "talents" need, i have a question in mind since long time which was in fact the Lenr basis.
Why it was P&F initial postulate that Hydrogen atoms highly loading a metal lattice could fuse ?
If for example JedRothwell could highlight my mind by sharing the P&F initial way of thinking to imagine this crazy way as possibility of fusion ?
I don't think the problem is of that nature, but rather the lack of talent.
In France, we currently have a very young president, thinking that young will do better, elected to do something new, to do the best, there has been no miracle.
Talent remains capricious, it can appear stealthily and then disappear for several decades.
Yes. I call this the generational role reversal. It shows there is something wrong with modern science. Young people have always taken the lead in research and technology. That is how things should be.
No it's wrong even if Kervran was a great great researcher who spent his entire live as a company doctor.
Started his researchs in relation with welders carbon monoxide poisoning.
His pseudo Nobel prize was a king of mockery to discredit his disruptive ways of thinking.
...from Jean Paul's paper, linked above. Kervran was btw a Nobel Prize nominee.
I didn't specifically wanted to alter the mind of our readers but only wanted to share a factual vision. A lot of researchers have seen things but mostly very small things that they have oversold.
In fact, everyone is over-communicating in order to artificially appear the brightest in order to get ahead from others regarding potential funding possibilities.
This is still the case, with for example this current virtuous attempt at US funding.
Generally, countries which have had the most impact on Lenr field in its recent history was first of all, italy with piantelli as the beginning, japan took over with their current promising work and always USA with essentially their most massive financing capacities at any scale.
Outlandish claims as you said, great communicants and mythomaniacs remain almost 95% of my Lenr understanding since 2 decades i'm involved in this field.
We should stop to dream.
She hasn't retired. Pam is employed by Global Energy Corporation. Lawrence Forsley is employed by both NASA and GEC, with an office, labs and testbeds at NASA. It's more interesting to have curiosity and knowledge about this group's workings and outlandish claims than those of the ECat, Rossi and Industrial Heat orchestrated fiasco. We all remember GEC and Guam. While not asking Pam or Larry pointed questions in this regard, they both have made plans to attend the ARPA-E LENR workshop. So does Theresa Benyo. Industrial Heat is going to be there too.
I would like Vladimir Pines to attend and show us his "guiding theories" essential to the design of reactors for GEC LENR space power systems.
They would - Francesco Celani is also attending.
He's already taking money from the current European project, finally this is always the same people who benefit ?
it's relevant what you suggested you get closer to the right path.
can : That is when Hydrogen would not travel and the electrostatic field would last too long.
However this is different for Hydrogen that moves through a very small local area that contains such high electric field.In the case of multi-layer metals in which hydrogen is moving through a local electric field it could be compared to a condition of intermittently applied electrical field (e.g. a laser pulse).
[EDIT] Illustration of what I meant:
if you knew how much you know nothing about him, your condescension does nothing to your credit.
Some people read you others are probably closer to you than you can never imagine, but you bulge the torso as a condescending ignorant.
LenrForum is just the tip of a world you can't see.
ZenoOfElea , The so called “professor” criticizing the SAFIRE project has been already discussed here in the proper thread. He is not even a professor.
etc etc etc etc etc etc etc
Well,
Storms proposal considers a reaction between 2 D together then what i suggest is rather a reaction between a simple H ( not H2) with an atom from the metal lattice to generate X rays.
As magicsound said to not have seen any effect with only simple iron, i suggest the isotope involvement rather than another species as carbon, sulfur or phosphorous.
i remember this old paper from CEA retired by which they propose this way.
You should use Google document translation to leave from the french.
i can send the native .doc for people who should ask me.
i think it remains the key...
3 options:
1- H mono penetrated become "amas condensed" H2 ( beta phasis)
2- H mono penetrated become "well separated" H2 ( alpha phasis).
3- H mono penetrated remains "well separated" H mono.
In this last option i expect that codeposition process should do amorphous lattice more able to stabilize H monos..
At other side, by a perfect and regular cristal lattice H mono loaded should move more easily helping the recombination.
Well, after a night of thinking in fact i thought not so relevant the idea of hydrogen trapped inside an hot lattice then cooled.
If we use a chemical way, indeed, the host metal lattice will trap both an hydrogen atom not especially an H2.
So, we could imagine in this case that maintly H monoatomic could be trapped, it couldn't be the case in my previous hypothesis by which we should except full H recombination.
So in this case of chemical deposit, all H monoatomic could be well separated from each others and could become relatively "stable" i expect ( against recombination) .
Even if with time it will migrate finally however this should need a relatively long time i think.
In this way i could imagine this highly reactive H mono could react with an host atom then both should transmute to produce X rays in the end.
In this way, a better choice ( isotopes ) of host metal should be considered to improve the effect, i propose.
I see apparently a lot of difficulties by chemical way to trap hydrogen inside a metal.
Why don't fill a metal when highly heated ( above 700°) as well as hydrogen will be able easily to cross across it, then making a quick cooling (in ambiant water) to keep the trap ?
Austenitic steels should be very good for that.
Maybe the Hydrogen filling rate should be lower than the current method, i don't know.
Please stop polluting constantly the Forum probably this is your brain which never achieved a critical mass.
Yes, well thin Kanthal wires will not achieve a critical mass or density of protons and neutrons for a reactor to work. So this way is pointless.
Low X rays emitted.
Display MoreRe this replication. Forgive me for asking newbie questions - but sometimes a from the start summary can be helpful anyway.
The anomalous behaviour here, as I understand it, is that a closed gas tube with two electrodes acts as a low voltage low current source. I can understand low voltage source - but the surprise is that it conducts at all, even a little bit - because gasses should be good insulators unless ionised, and ionisation requires high voltages. (There are known surface configurations that will ionise at lower volatges but that is still 10V or so to sustain and a few 100V to start)?
In addition the OP said ionisaing radiation had been detected. I take that with a pinch of salt if low level since false positives are quite easy - unless it was very clear (higher level). But, if it was very clear, I guess you would all be taking about it?
So - if the above is not missing the point - which it may be - the thing to explain is how those low currents could flow through a gas cell.
THH
it seems you took passengers in your car finally
So if i have well understood the SS tube you added was used to protect the first alumina one.
From your side, what was the pressure reached with your LAH considering the dead volume ?
Display MoreAs you may recall, I did a long series of similar Glowstick ("GS") experiments. For GS4 I used a Nickel fuel capsule inserted in the Alumina reactor. The first image below shows the remains of the fuel capsule after reaching 1230°C in the core. The second image shows similar destruction of the SS316 fuel capsule from GS5.2, which reached 1180°C. That experiment produced COP ~1.1 for nearly 1 hour, and a clear Bremsstrahlung gamma signal far above background level.
Both these experiments used Ni powder with about 15% LAH by weight.
Well,
You said to have used only 100 mg LiAlh4 and 1g 200 mesh Ti powder so how high you estimate the internal pressure reached ?
Good job jeff
"I always wondered why rather use an SS tube than alumina as fuel tube ? Is there a secret to using an SS ?"
The reason is most likely the same as that which convinced Parkhomov to include an SS tube in his later experiments. Lithium, or lithium compounds react with alumina far more readily that they will with SS. I first ran a Parkhomov-type experiment with Ni + LiAlH4 in an alumina tube. The result was a near instantaneous erosion of the alumina resulting in the lithium mixture melting (burning) through the alumina.
I always wondered why rather use an SS tube than alumina as fuel tube ?
Is there a secret to using an SS ?
Display MoreGiven that Ti has a very high affinity for hydrogen, I thought it might be interesting to run a Parkhamov-type experiment with Ti rather than Ni. In this case I loaded 100 mg LiAlh4 and 1g 200 mesh Ti powder into a 0.188" OD stainless tube 2" in length. The ends were plugged with fused quartz wool. Then the SS tube was placed in a 0.25" OD alumina tube around which was wrapped 32 T of 0.032" Kanthal wire. The entire apparatus described above fits into a 38 mm OD fused quartz tube that has connections to DC power, vacuum, and H2. The quartz tube is capped on both ends by machined endpieces with radial O-ring seals. I have no trouble maintaining 1e-6 Torr or better vacuum under continuous pumping. The experimental protocol went as follows.
1. Evacuate cell at room temperature to 1e-6 Torr or better.
2. Introduce 20 Torr dry H2
3. Step the heater voltage from 0V to 35V in 5V increments. This yields heater power from 12W to 540W and cell temperatures from ~100C to 1100C.
4. Add/bleed H2 from external source as required to maintain a pressure of < 100 Torr (This is the limit of the Baratron). I wanted to ensure that the system operated at sub 1 atm pressure for safety reasons.
5. Record alumina tube surface temperature and Delta T from the airflow calorimeter vs. heater power. I used an IR thermometer to monitor the temperature of the alumina tube.
The first run showed no excess heat as compared to a Ni + LiAlH4 + H2 mixture. The results were also nearly identical to running with an empty (no Ni or LiAlH4) cell. No excess heat, and the calorimeter delta T closely matched values for an empty cell.
The second run produced something unexpected. At a 35V heater voltage the Kanthal suddenly burned out. This was surprising since a 35V heater voltage has previously yielded
surface temperatures of <1100 C maximum. I was not able to record the cell surface temperature at the time of burnout because of heavy sputtering on the interior of the quartz tube. Also, the calorimeter did not have time to reach a steady state.
Upon disassembling the cell it was obvious that the SS tube and its contents exceeded 1500C: see attached photo. So the question is whether the sudden increase in temperature was due to chemical or LENR causes. I'll repair the apparatus and repeat the protocol and see what happens.
Comments are welcome.
Jeff
Rossi have well summarized the Lenr status when he said:
The substantial underestimation of what we have done has given us a real advantage, since instead of changing the game, the attempts that are going on to imitate us only try and fix old schemes.
So true...with the passing of time..
An old article, but new to me. https://www.wired.com/1998/11/coldfusion/
