@D2: Have you ever encounted anomalous heat effects in your experiments?
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:32 PM, DJ Cravens <djcrav...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I tried from 3 nm up to 10 microns. > This was a few years (3) back. I could not make just simple Ni powders > and H2 gas work. > I have gravitated to passing current through the materials. > > I have heard of at least two other researchers (Rod, and Brian) that have > had health related problems with nano Ni. > > Now I mix activated C (some tries with zeolite = molecular sieve powders) > with various metal salt solutions and reduce them. The C particles are > large enough (typically 100 mesh) to be easily filtered and the you can get > a range of pore sizes. > > I am also trying the activated C cloth/foam. > > I would advise extreme caution in using fine Ni powders. > (they also can auto ignite). > > D2 > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 02:09:28 -0400 > Subject: Re: [Vo]:[Vo) nano nickel powders > From: janap...@gmail.com > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > > > Dennis > > > Were you using 5 micron nickel particles as per Rossi and DGT? > > > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:37 PM, DJ Cravens <djcrav...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Nano nickel > > > > Health/safety > > First, I would like to reiterate what others have pointed out about the > health risks. I personally suffered symptoms of pulmonary hypertension > as a result to exposure. Initially the doctors diagnosed it as PH and > said I had 3 to 5 year life expectancy. But local doctors had no info on > nano Ni. I have now mostly recovered due to massive use of Vitamin B12 > (the Co slowly replaces and excludes the Ni). > > > > The material will go through many valves, chew up vacuum pumps, …. It > can even go through some plastics and HEPA filters are too coarse for it. > I ended up using Neodymium magnets on my tubing with Hepa material to slow > the flow down. (use very slow changes in pressures). I also ended up > having all those systems in negative pressure cabinets vented to the > outside. > > > > Materials > > I have two patents pending on use of “inert materials” (like zirc oxide > and ceramic) to isolate fine metals (Ni, Pd, Ti, alloys of H absorbing > materials) to avoid sintering. > > > > I have turned to putting Ni, Pd and other metals in mesopore carbon. The > idea is to have fine metal structures but to have them contained in larger > particles that will not allow sintering. Also it is easier to pass > current through the C than it is ZrO2. I feel it is the change in > current (numbers of H or D flowing) that give rise to initiation of the > event. (and yes a provisional was filed last year) > > > > > > Dennis > > >
