In reply to Mike Carrell's message of Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:42:44 -0400: Hi, [snip] >I heard this as a radio drama years ago. The realization of it may come in >the work of Mills. The simplest hydrino-forming reactions yield more energy >per atom than is needed to extract H from H2O, so the potential for a "Water >Engine" was achieved years ago. The application problem has been that the >energy yield is as extreme ultraviolet light, and no efficient conversion >system exists. [snip] This isn't really the problem. Even the first level H[n=1/2] yields a formation energy of 40.8 eV (and of course "higher" levels produce more). It only takes about 4 eV to separate H (not H2) from water. This is a factor 10 less than the Hydrino formation energy, so simple conversion of heat to electricity with an efficiency of 30% would yield 3 times as much electric power as was required to produce the H in the first place. (Left to itself, UV will automatically degrade to heat.)
His initial problem was that the number of Hydrinos produced per catalyst atom/ion was too small. That meant he had to put too much energy into creating catalyst ions relative to the energy output of the reaction, so the overall ratio of output to input wasn't enough to compensate for the inefficiency in the conversion of heat to electricity. IMO this remains true even for NaH. However I think he now also has another problem. The reaction stops. I.e. the process doesn't appear to be as cyclic as he might wish, or IOW, the catalyst isn't being properly regenerated. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
