Francis
You are barking up the wrong tree. From the last test of the 2.5 kw reactor witnessed by the Swedes: *Startup**. Prior to startup, the hydrogen bottle with a nominal pressure of 160 bars was connected for a short moment to the device to pressurize the fuel container to about 25 bars. The air of atmospheric pressure was remaining in the container as a small impurity. The amount of hydrogen with the assumed container volume of 50 cm**3 **is 0.11 grams of hydrogen. The electric heater was switched on at 10:25, and the meter reading was 1.5 amperes corresponding to 330 watts for the heating including the power for the instrumentation, about 30 watts. The electric heater thus provides a power of 300 watts to the nickel-hydrogen mixture. This corresponds also to the nominal power of the resistor.* * * *Note: The air of atmospheric pressure was remaining in the container as a small impurity* The Nickel powder was prepared by adding hydrogen to nano-nickel in an *air atmosphere*. It is my contention that the heating process/cathode action provided by the internal heater is what forcibly packs hydrogen in massive amounts into the nickel not the removal of oxygen. You are pursuing the older watts level of power production technique. The Rossi process produces kilowatt levels of power. On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Roarty, Francis X <francis.x.roa...@lmco.com > wrote: > Jones, > > Ok that may apply to the major surface area and a vacuum may be necessary > to degass but Stremmenos’ point about absorbing an enormous quantity of > hydrogen after heat + vacuum purifying his powder suggests that the nano > pores and defects of his micro particles as delivered remain oxidized. Perhaps > we are describing “clean” at 2 different scales and again tripping over the > difference between normal surface area / volume between particles and the > more extreme Casimir geometry where I posit the relativistic volume is > magnitudes larger than the spatial volume appears from our perspective …… > MAYBE Rossi’s secret ingredient is a chemical that enhances the Casimir > effect by either cleaning or backfilling the existing cavities such that > more hydrogen is translated to extreme fractional values up to 1/137. > > Regards > > Fran > > > > > > > > [snip] > > Anyhow, this is very important, because I observed it and then told Sergio. > If we degassed (nickel powder, at this point) at an extremely low pressure, > i.e.. 10-6, which is one-millionth of atmospheric pressure, for one week > at a temperature of 500° [Celsius], so that all the oxides on the surface of > the micro-particles of nickel were eliminated (this means all of the oxides > that have formed, because we are surrounded by an oxygen atmosphere) ... > well, upon charging it, it sucked up, how can I put it, an enormous quantity > of hydrogen (I was using hydrogen). And the temperature, which had been > 500°, began to rise considerably, and got higher and higher, over the 1000° > mark. I got scared, and shut everything down [laughs], because, I said to > myself, “This is going to blow up”! > > The temperature went up very fast. Probably there was chemical reaction too > ... specifically, hydrides were being formed, which are... I didn’t have the > patience to wait until it reached a steady level, but the previous > experiments which … as far as exothermic emission from nickel is concerned … > this excess [of heat] went on even for six months, so it did … but it wasn’t > absorbing all that much hydrogen ... so I understood that the trick was > purifying the nickel as much as possible... Talking out all the gases it > absorbs … plus the oxides formed on the surface of the nickel > micro-particles.[/snip] > > > > *From:* Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] > *Sent:* Friday, May 06, 2011 11:33 AM > *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com > *Subject:* EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:cheap ball mill / glove box alternative to > Bell jar? > > > > You do not need to flush the ball mill with helium. Nickel resists > oxidation at ambient very well, and any surface oxide remaining will be > reduced on the first contact with hydrogen. > > > > If this is un-activated Raney-type nickel you are milling, of course you > know to activate after ball milling, NOT before. > > > > > > *From:* Roarty, Francis X > > > > Would ball milling nickel in a glove box of helium produce a similar oxygen > free powder without the need for a bell jar to out gas? >
