[Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Jones Beene
RE: Genius Inventor by Thomas E Stolper. Highly recommended, available from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Genius-Inventor-controversy-historical-contemporary/dp /1419643045/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1302024882sr=8-1 This book by former vortician Tom Stolper is the detailed history of Randell

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Essentially, back in March 1992 almost twenty years ago – Thermacore put into operation the prototype Ni-H cell which operated for nearly a year at greater than 3:1 excess energy (50 watts continuous of excess energy for about a year, but catch-22 ...

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Peter Gluck
There are two essential conditions necessary for a Ni-H system to work: a) proper nanometric structure- i.e active sites NAE at high density; b) the surface of Ni should absolutely free of adsorbed gases that could compete with hydrogen for the active sites Piantelii has discovered this and has

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Interesting speculation, Jones. I never read Stolper's book. Nevertheless, I remember his scrappy posts from the old Yahoo Hydrino group, particularly as he incessantly went after Zimmerman. Does Stolper's book reveal any kind of useful detail as to what kind of additional catalysts might have

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Dennis
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away Interesting speculation, Jones. I never read Stolper's book. Nevertheless, I remember his scrappy posts from the old Yahoo Hydrino group, particularly as he incessantly went after Zimmerman. Does Stolper's book reveal any kind of useful

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Peter Gluck
and Mill's fine Ni wire? Dennis -- From: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 1:34 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away Interesting speculation, Jones. I never

RE: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Jones Beene
the rate by at least an order of magnitude. There are other choices. Curiously, potassium is not deemed to be good for spillover, but sodium is. -Original Message- From: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson Subject: Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away Interesting speculation, Jones. I never read

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Jed Rothwell
Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com wrote: There are zero data re Rossi's nanopowder, but if it is nano, the specific surface is much greater as that of the wire. Nano or cornsilk, as far as I know any powder has far more surface area than wire. The definition of nanopowder, by the way, is

RE: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Jones Beene
Surface area: When you go down in size, every time you reduce the radius by half (for a sphere) you increase the available surface area by ~50 times for the same weight. The problem with this rule of thumb is that true nanopowder is expensive, yet there are a few kinds of useful nickel having

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Terry Blanton
I wonder if the Patterson beads were too perfect when replicated? Maybe the working batch used a sloppy substrate. T

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Surface area: When you go down in size, every time you reduce the radius by half (for a sphere) you increase the available surface area by ~50 times for the same weight. But, a non-spherical particle would have greater

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread mixent
In reply to Peter Gluck's message of Tue, 5 Apr 2011 22:51:15 +0300: Hi, [snip] There are zero data re Rossi's nanopowder, but if it is nano, the specific surface is much greater as that of the wire. ...from the photo provided, it would appear that the granules have a diameter on the order of 10

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:56 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: (Does someone have a reference for the photo? I can't remember exactly which report it was in.) The image is in their patent app:

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread francis
than the grain itself. Regards Fran Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away Dennis Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:43:22 -0700 Is anyone out there good at running numbers? what is the comparison in surface area of Rossi's nanopowder and Mill's fine Ni wire? Dennis

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Peter Gluck
Nickel (2- 10 mnm) can be accomplished by much larger grains of powder because it is the formation of “pore like” geometry between the grains which is far smaller than the grain itself. Regards Fran *Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away*** *Dennis* Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:43:22 -0700 Is anyone