More on dense hydrogen… Lest we forget, there is a known branch of physics/cosmology that deals with dense hydrogen. In this case, dense hydrogen is the cold liquid metal which is thought to be found all over the Universe on cold, giant gas planets like Jupiter, under extreme pressure. Here is one such article.
https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/features/dense-hydrogen/ This is apparently NOT the same species as Holmlid’s dense hydrogen. Holmlid has been asked the question – and believes his species is different and much denser and more stable. Nevertheless, it could be intuitive to look at the conventional version of dense hydrogen – but in the context of LH’s experiments. Every great theorist, and especially the most brilliant of them (Dirac, Einstein) have been wrong about major details in the formative stage of a new breakthrough. Holmlid could be wrong about a few details. Two properties of dense hydrogen stand out, relative to LENR. One is that the species is superconductive and the other is that Lithium reduces requisite pressure to form an alloy - substantially - by a factor of four. Lithium is thought to form the alloy LiH6 with metallic hydrogen, which would be a stable alloy at 1⁄4 of the pressure required to metallize hydrogen (but this is still enormous). This pressure is not available to LENR except/unless SPP are present, and then as a pulse. Even if Holmlid’s species is different, the affinity to lithium could be similar. Thus, we are getting a glimpse of what is could be happening with LAH, but in the context of Holmlid - and moreover – a suggestion about how to move the process forward. If we look at the use of LAH7 as an active catalyst in LENR, which could be coaxed into clusters of LiH6 embedded in the bulk catalyst, especially when a particle of the catalyst comes under the extreme magnetic field of surface plasmons (SPP), then we can imagine another way to get dense hydrogen. The problem is that the LAH would need to retain hydrogen content as long as possible, which it normally loses at elevated temperature. Here is an article on LiH6: http://phys.org/news/2009-10-unexpected-hydrides-stable-metals-pressure.html If the LiH6 reaction happens under a SPP pressure pulse – then the last thing one wants to do is to have already heated the reactor too fast too soon, driving off the hydrogen from the lithium. The trick would be to produce SPP at as cold a temperature as possible. One way to accomplish this would be to use an intense source of photons, instead of thermal input, while actively cooling the reactor. This would happen in a preliminary, or activation stage and done simply with one or more small fans. Surprisingly, the bottom line on taking conventional physics into consideration with Holmlid’s theory (and Rossi’s) – involves the formation of dense hydrogen using LAH in a ceramic tube, irradiated with intense photons of light in a magnetic field (for SPP) and facilitated by actively cooling the reactor tube during the activation stage. Jones
