What McKubre neglected to mention but has been disclosed by Brillouin is
the design of their gas-phase system. They're working on a fluidized-bed
reactor with Nickel nano particles on ceramic beads, suspended in
flowing hydrogen. It's unclear how they apply the Q-pulse to such a
non-conductive target. Microwaves come to mind...
Godes mentioned in a recent interview that the initial experiment with
this system at SRI was not successful but that they gained some useful
clues from it. McKubre also hinted that this work was ongoing but that
the control mechanism for the gas-phase was not as effective yet.
On 1/15/2014 12:42 PM, Axil Axil wrote:
Brillouin has both good and bad design items in their system. Starting off
with the bad part, Brillouin uses wire as a substrate for their reaction.
The limited surface area that contains the cavities and bumps on the wire
surface where the LENR reaction takes place is limited. Because of this
fundamental limitation, Brillouin will likely never achieve a high
coefficient of performance (COP) that marks superior operation of a
dominant cold fusion system.
