On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote:
Those who have been around the alternative energy scene for long enough are > certainly aware of the niche which is now called simply "HHO". ... > > Mills new paper should be read in that context. Basically it is an HHO > paper, which is cleverly disguised as something else in order to shoehorn > it > into a theory (and especially into IP) which does may or may not apply, due > to the vast amount of prior art. > Interesting links. The conceptual history of the HHO stuff is fascinating. Stepping back a little, it is interesting how many of the details relating to remediation of waste and the use of electric arcs and so on crop up over and over in different contexts. It seems reasonable to put Mills's theory into the HHO lineage (e.g., Browns gas). His actual method, or what he discloses of it in the recent paper, is similar to that of Karabut, a LENR researcher who has been using glow discharge forever. I'd also put DGT's approach into this group. If one allows that Papp may have been adding hydrogen to his fuel, his approach also seems very similar. I do not know what to make of Mills's claims about broadband emissions in some spectra differentiating some cathode configurations from others, in which there supposedly was no broadband emission. For example, on p. 29, graphic (B) claims to show a broadband hump in the spectrum that does not really exceed 1.5E5 photon intensity. This graph is given as evidence of a hydrino reaction that was taking place. On p. 32, graphic (A), the lower part of the spectrum goes up to 2E5 photon intensity, but this time it's attributed to background due to scattered photons. It seems, then, that it is the shape of the spectrum and not the photon intensity that is distinguishing the two cases. Has anyone drawn a conclusion about the lower broadband emissions part of a series of spectra before, apart from instrumental artifact? I suspect Mills is seeing something important that is differentiating in his mind the successful cases from the inactive cases, but it's not clear to me what this is yet. Eric
