From: Roarty, Francis X
I think Grabowski might be suspecting ashless chemistry but is afraid to be lumped with Mills. I Still maintain that confined catalytic action (or change in Casimir force) can repeatedly disassociate gas molecules -pitting nature against itself until the action drives the atoms out of the cavity or destroys the geometry. He indicates the present ash does not account for all the excess heat. Fran Looks like he goes back long before Mills. In trying to gather more information on this, it turns out that K.S. Grabowski has followed in the footsteps of J.J Grabowski in the field of "hydrogen deuterium exchange” reactions, going back quite a long time. Father -> son? Also there is a new book on Amazon, which I would have ordered, were it not for the exorbitant price: http://www.amazon.com/Hydrogen-bonding-Challenges-Computational- Chemistry/dp/1402048521/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8 <http://www.amazon.com/Hydrogen- bonding-Challenges-Computational- Chemistry/dp/1402048521/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279570538&sr=8-1> &s=books&qid=1279570538&sr=8-1 I still cannot find the expected heating value of the exchange; however, this paper indicates that “The activation energy for the H+ ↔ D+ exchange was determined to be 2.4 eV, less than half the value obtained by pure thermal means, suggesting that under the application of an electric field the deuteron (proton) diffusion mechanism is different.” http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a755768593 Which value sounds rather high. No wonder there is some interest in this as an alternative to LENR. For that, it must be both reversible and asymmetric. + IF + … there was asymmetry in the exchange, due perhaps to the Casimir cavity, then this could be the kind of chemical modality that fits the circumstances of thermal gain well, without recourse to LERN or fractional hydrogen. And exchange-chemistry is not always symmetrical, so this cannot be ruled out. The ultimate source of gainful chemical energy then becomes something more like phase-change; and if there is net gain due to some asymmetry, then it must be due to ZPE, no? Jones
