Robin has provided additional insight into the problem Mills faces. The last
time I saw him, after a presentation at a regional ACS meeting in Princeton,
his parting words were about gas kinetics. The gas phase cell were fine for
research, but there had to be a continuous energy input to ionize the
catalyst gases without ionizing the H atoms. The solid fuel NaH reaction
gives higher intensity, but the overall reaction to reconstitute the
reactant charge is clumsy and not amenable to the automation necessary. One
can build a engine using cyclic exposions ans in an automobile.
There are two new journal papaers posted at the website whch together
demolish the criticisms that the hot H seen in BLP reactors is due to field
acceleration, leaving the BLP reaction as the only plausible source of the
extreme Balmer line broadening observed.
Mike Carrell
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Subject: Re: [Vo]:"The Water Engine" (play and movie)
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
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