Some rough calculations on Mizuno's R20 reactor from atomic perspective to trigger further thoughts
(please, fill in any errors, assumptions and suggestions): (1) Surplus heat @ 3KW: 2700W - Energy release 2700 W/s = 1.7 * 1022 eV (2) Number of Deuterium atoms (n) in the reactor using ideal gas law PV = nRT : n = PV/RT (mol) P = 0.0002 (@ 200 P) V = 5.7 liters (given by R20 cylinder) R = 0.08314 (given constant) T = 673 K ( given by 400 degrees C as an R20 estimate) n = 0.00020374 mol Deuterium = 2.4449 * 1020 free atoms in reactor space. Assuming that absorbed Deuterium atoms do not take part in the energy generation, but serve as a 'gas reserve' that by means of an Deuterium equilibrium will be released in reactor space due to gas pressure and/or gas temperature changes. Let's further assume that 1% of the free space atoms participate in energy release at the surface of the PD/Ni mesh. That would result in 100 *(1)/(2) = 7 KeV per participating atom. Not a fusion result (would require several MeV/atom) if given assumptions would be correct. On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 5:05 PM H LV <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > The battery (or Voltaic pile as it was originally named) proved to be an > incredibley important discovery, but not in the way some people imagined. > So much of our modern world depends on batteries. > > Harry > > On Tue., Jul. 2, 2019, 4:39 p.m. Jed Rothwell, <jedrothw...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> H LV <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> When the electric battery was first discovered in the early 1800s and >>> little was known about the phenomena, to some people it seemed like it >>> could become the next great source of energy. I think people should temper >>> their commercial and scientific expectations when faced with the mystery of >>> a new phenomena. Harry >>> >> >> I think we now know enough about cold fusion to make informed speculation >> about it. If the recent Mizuno experiment can be replicated, I think it >> proves beyond question that the effect can be scaled up and made into a >> commercially useful source of energy. It is only a matter of >> engineering. It also shows that there is enough palladium in the world to >> generate all the energy we need. I should explain that Mizuno has >> projected that much higher power density is possible. We now know the >> reaction can occur at high temperatures and high power density, and that it >> can be controlled at least as well as a burning pile of coal or a fission >> reactor core. >> >> When I wrote my book, I did not know whether cold fusion would ever >> become a useful source of energy, or even whether it was possible to make >> it practical. The book is predicated on the assumption that it can be made >> practical, but that was speculation. I think we now know for sure that it >> can be. It only has to be proved once, with one experiment, since the >> effect itself has been widely replicated and there is no doubt it exists. >> >> It is possible there is such strong political opposition to cold fusion >> it will never be developed. However we now know that it can be. >> >> It is true that people have sometimes overestimated the potential of new >> technology, but I think more often they have underestimated it. People have >> often underestimated by a gigantic margin. Some of these people were >> experts who should have known better. In the 1970s the top managers at DEC >> and other companies thought that microcomputers would never amount to much. >> In the late 1990s, Paul Krugman thought that the Internet was not >> important. Here is my favorite quote from an expert in transportation who >> should have known better: >> >> Eighty-five percent of the horse-drawn vehicle industry of the country >> is untouched by the automobile. In proof of the foregoing permit me to say >> that in 1906-7, and coincident with an enormous demand for automobiles, the >> demand for buggies reached the highest tide of its history. The man who >> predicts the downfall of the automobile is a fool; the man who denies its >> great necessity and general adoption for many uses is a bigger fool; and >> the man who predicts the general annihilation of the horse and his >> vehicle is the greatest fool of all. >> >> - The keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the National Association >> of Carriage Builders in 1908, the year that Ford introduced the Model T >> >> From D. H. Sanders, "Computers in Business, An Introduction" (1968) >> >> >>
