The tubes should be solid because LENR is exclusively a surface reaction. To strengthen the tubes and provide a longer service life, the tubes may be filled with tough stuff like tungsten, for example,
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Roarty, Francis X <francis.x.roa...@lmco.com > wrote: > I wonder what effect CNTs would have mixed into the precursor alloys of > skeletal cats. Would the alloy and the leaching agents be drawn into the > tube? > > Fran > > *From:* Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] > *Sent:* Monday, March 03, 2014 12:57 PM > *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com > *Subject:* EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:Resonant photons for CNT ring current > > > > Bob, all > > > > If Rossi can be believed, he did not use CNT (at least not originally) but > instead - his tubules are made of nickel via a proprietary process which > adds porosity and surface features. > > > > Nickel is ductile and CNT are stiff and 500% stronger than nickel. But CNT > is not a spillover catalyst, like nickel. In short the original recipe can > probably be improved, and may have been improved already. > > > > Given all of the info out there from various sources, it would seem that a > superior Ni-H reactor media would be composed of carbon nanotubes on which > nickel has been deposited... or preferably a nickel alloy. The Romanowski > alloys are far superior to nickel, palladium or anything else as spillover > catalysts. The citation is in the archives. > > > > *From:* Bob Cook > > > > It sounds like Jones thinks that a combination of CNT's (the hairs) and Ni > distributed on their surface some how is what Rossi has used. > > > > Jones. Is this what you meant by: " > > "It would probably be more productive to come at this from the standpoint > of adding something to CNT instead of subtracting something from nickel?" > > > > > > > >
