The bottom line of all of this is that the UV source is a falsifiable premise with lots of experimental evidence backing it up - and if it is accurate, which we will know soon - then it is counterproductive to look at converting the heat from Ni-H into electricity via steam or any normal kind of heat engine.
If and when UV light is available direct from the Ni-H reaction - then direct conversion into electricity from a photocell, not unlike the one being used by SkyCollection in this video - is all that will be needed to fully implement the technology in a way that gets us off of the grid - and the inherent danger of a grid that is both too fragile and too expensive. Without resorting to the quantum mechanically problematic hydrino hypothesis, the well accepted atomic hydrogen emission spectrum extends from the infrared to the Lyman series of emissions lines in the ultra violet. As background, the Hydrogen atom can have a principal quantum number that ranges from 1 (the ground state) to 137 (infinity). Highly excited molecular dissociated atomic Hydrogen atoms are called Rydberg atoms with one electron in a circular orbit having a very high principal quantum number. These closely spaced far out high energy Rydberg states form what is commonly referred to as the *Rydberg series*. High energy ultra violet waves are formed when an electron in an extreme Rydberg orbit falls all the way down to the low energy orbit close to the ground state. The difference in the principal quantum number between the initial high energy state and the low energy final state defines the wavelength in the emitted photon. When this principal quantum number difference is large and the orbital fall of the electron is great, the emitted photon is highly energetic and is found in the ultra violet wavelengths. Without resorting to the hydrino concept, the presence of ultra violet photons from hydrogen spectral emissions is a sure indicator that a Rydberg atom was involved in this energetic reaction. IMHO, Rydberg atoms are central to the motive catalytic foundations of the Rossi reaction and not a result of it. On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > Here is an interesting little video from a Mexican builder of fabulously > interesting dynamic gadgets (aka SkyCollection) - whose handiwork many of > us > have followed over recent years: > > http://www.youtube.com/user/skycollection#p/a/f/1/JRdHbcB7MYE > > This kind of imaginative gadgetry is somewhere between art and science, and > is most provocative for a number of aesthetic reasons that imply excess > energy, if not magic. For other observers, the interest is more art than > science in the sense of converting Rube Goldberg into precision devices of > very high efficiency. > > Anyway, the purpose of this posting, featuring this device, is to show > visually and verbally the complexity involved in defining where energy > comes > from - the energy that allows the levitating rotor to spin and dance as it > does. It may be a surprise - but the ultimate gain can be said to come from > Quantum Mechanics. It is a chore to explain that further. To understand how > quantum mechanics is even involved at all, you have to go back several > levels in time. > > In Law, and in Science, there is "proximate cause" and "ultimate cause" and > within the category of 'proximate' there can be a progression of levels, > each further back in time, in a chain of cause and effect - which this > video > helps to demonstrate. Looking at causation we first see an electrically > energized coil and spinning permanent magnets. That is one level of > proximity. The electrical charge is held in capacitors, which is a second > level. The solar cell provides electrical current to charge the capacitors > - > the third level of proximate cause, and that is where most of us stop - but > beyond the photocell, there is a big nuclear reactor which we call the sun. > But is nuclear energy the "ultimate" source of gain that allows the rotor > to > spin? > > Probably not. The photons that power the device come not from the sun > itself > but from a corona around the sun, which is much hotter than the sun itself > - > and the photons start out as ultraviolet radiation, much of which is > downshifted into visible light and are produced outside the sun. Although > the corona would not "work" to produce UV without the nuclear reactions in > the sun, those reactions do NOT emit these photons, the ones which the > solar > cell receives, so they are arguably NOT the ultimate cause of the motion we > see in the rotor. Those photons ultimately come from the corona, and if > Randell Mills is correct, this is best explained in his version of QM > (which > he wants to deny is really QM). Go figure. > > The most important future concern - in trying to fully understand ultimate > source of gain in Ni-H reactions, e.g. in the progression from Thermacore > to > DGT is that only the thermal gain has been harnessed so far. The thermal > gain comes from another level (going back in time) and that reaction also > gives us UV (if Mills is correct) but this UV does not necessarily go back > further to a nuclear reaction. That is the magic of nickel. Understanding > how the reaction proceeds, and in great detail has been the main > contribution to our understanding of the world from Randell Mills. He did > get it right wrt the solar corona, at least, and probably with Ni-H he is > half-right. > > The source of thermal gain in Ni-H is almost certainly not strongly related > to phonon motion (the heat itself), which is an effect, and not a cause. > Phonons are the evidence of gain, but not the ultimate cause. We can be > pretty certain that the gain is not chemical, if we define chemical as > relating to valence electrons, and redox reactions, etc since no known > chemical reactions produce the amount of heat seen. A workable premise is > that the ultimate source of gain is not "nuclear" in the sense of reactions > that transmute one nucleus to another kind of nucleus, but nevertheless the > proton (which is a nucleus) is intimately involved. > > This leaves one option open for ultimate cause of non-chemical excess heat, > and it has been called "supra-chemical" among other things, since gain > comes > from inner electron orbitals where the ionization potential produces UV > light. You can use Mills theory or not, but the key is UV emission and > proton mass is being converted to energy in the form of UV photons in a way > that leaves the proton unchanged (in identity). > > The bottom line of all of this is that the UV source is a falsifiable > premise with lots of experimental evidence backing it up - and if it is > accurate, which we will know soon - then it is counterproductive to look at > converting the heat from Ni-H into electricity via steam or any normal kind > of heat engine. > > If and when UV light is available direct from the Ni-H reaction - then > direct conversion into electricity from a photocell, not unlike the one > being used by SkyCollection in this video - is all that will be needed to > fully implement the technology in a way that gets us off of the grid - and > the inherent danger of a grid that is both too fragile and too expensive. > > Jones > > > >
