One possible way to shed some new light on the fusion issue is to run an experiment were the pressure of deuterium is reduced slowly down toward the 1 pa limit to see how the rate of heat output behaves. Once a minimum sustainable pressure is determined where the mesh reactor still produces steady heat output, run the reactor at this minimum productive pressure regime and monitor how the heat output varies over time.
If the reactor stops producing heat at some later time, the fuel consumption rate can be calculated and this data might indicate what energy production mechanism is producing energy in the mesh reactor. On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 9:56 AM JonesBeene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > > > Reality Check. Surprisingly, nuclear fusion of deuterium into helium seems > NOT sufficiently energetic to account for the Mizuno claim of heating his > home. > > > > Mass is apparently being converted into energy, but how? And what are the > ramifications of such a low reactor inventory of deuterium gas? > > > > The main contenders for excess energy production would be: > > > > 1) D+D -> He > > 2) Deflation of electrons – i.e. the Millsean approach > > 3) Disintegration of deuterons into muons – Holmlid’s theory - which is far > more energetic than fusion in terms of entropy per unit of mass > > 4) Sequential Coulomb explosions from cluster formation –hypothesis from > Hora, Miley etc. > > 5) Any combination or permutation of the above > > > > If fusion of D into He is your choice - then one gram of fused deuterium > yields 10^12J (one terajoule)of energy, but when based on the low operating > pressure of 100-300 Pa (100 Pa = .001 bar) and the need for low metal > loading, as stated in his paper - that set of factors represents a tiny fuel > inventory, such that when completely fused into helium would generate about > 278 kilowatt hours of equivalent heat. > > > > If Mizuno was producing close to 3 kW continuous to heat his house in a > Sapporo winter, he could run it for only about 100 hours without a refill if > the gain was from fusion and the inventory was at the low end of his specs. > At any rate, if the gain was from nuclear fusion only - then almost all of > the deuterium would be converted, and the helium ash should be easily > measurable. > > > > There should be no need for a cold trap to increase the helium ratio – the > residual gas after less than a week should be almost all helium, no? Even if > these calculations are off by a large factor, the helium content should be > obvious. > > > > IOW – in the naïve assessment of the breakthrough claim of Mizuno – > specifically the heating of his home – after 100 hours or so of operation, > there should be a whopping milligram of helium and little deuterium in the > reactor to measure. > > > > In contrast – Holmlid’s theory proposes deuteron disintegration (with > inadvertent fusion). His theory suggests that about 4 GeV of mass-energy > per every two atoms of deuterium lost could be converted into energy. This > is about 150 times MORE potential energy per unit of mass (converted into > energy) than can be derived from fusion into helium. > > > > On the surface, then – fusion of deuterium into helium appears to be too > weak a reaction to account for the Mizuno claims of heating his home, and > only the Holmlid effect would have an adequate output. > > > > Why isn’t the Holmlid effect the favored hypothesis? > > > > Jones >
