There is a new generation of LENR researchers gaining their sea legs and building on the work of those who have gone before.
I am speaking about the H Cat experimenters. They are taking a different path to experimentation, a cooperative path, an open source path, where all knowledge and experimental experience is shared among them to the mutual benefit of the whole group. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaHI--DZ7hA Here is a little narrative for the folks that don't really know what they are looking at in this video. What you have is a typical brute force plate cell, generating Hydroxy and pushing it through a bubbler then a flashback suppressor. This is the same thing used in a HHO torch set. There's nothing fancy there. In fact, you can get all that stuff at HHO Connection. What isn't so obvious is that the Hydroxy is being pumped into a reaction chamber. And you don't have to ignite the gas to generate any heat, it will do that all by itself. In the video the experimenter keeps the reaction chamber cool with a forced air blower. This is necessary to keep the catalyst from melting. If you don't cool the reactor chamber it will climb in temperature until it destroys itself. If you have a good enough reactor, you could certainly melt lead or even aluminum with it. For safety sake, I would be a little cautious at taking the temperature that high as you would be asking for a gas combustion flashback at some point. You might also notice he uses a simple condenser tube of copper to collect the pure water in a closed loop. What I would really like is to see as the next step is the generation of calorimeter data in BTUs compared with the wattage needed to drive the cell. A simple temperature gauge with a very rough flow meter reading doesn't quite cut it with me. What would be far better is to cool the reactor with water, pumped into a large vessel of known capacity and plot a temperature rise curve over time. All of this should be well insulated and a baseline established. Even better would be to a have a replica dummy reactor without the catalyst but with a flame combustor of the HHO gas heating the water coolant and then compare the two plots. Doing this kind of lab work and fully documenting everything would be a no-brainer to bring this experiment to the forefront. . On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Steve High <diamondweb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well the conference is over and I would like to tell you about the serious > emotions that bubbled up at the end. Dr Hagelstein had the last word and he > wished to observe that today was the 25th anniversary of the Pons and > Fleischmann announcement. I've noticed before that he tends to have a > somewhat pessimistic view of the prospects for cold fusion. He described > the field as hanging on by its fingernails, and recounted how few research > groups are active now compared to four years after the announcement. He > also said he was feeling a glimmering of hope, and acknowledged the > apparent success and good feeling generated by the just completed > colloquium. > He then moved to recognize the friends that are no longer with us, > and literally hit a brick wall. His eyes filled with tears and he was not > able to speak the name of Martin Fleischman or the others. At the > suggestion of the audience he wrote on the chalkboard "Thanks for twenty > five years of struggle and hard work". I sensed that his sadness was for > the deceased, but also for the wearying burden he himself has carried for > the last twenty-five years. All those years of pushing a stone uphill, the > best years of his life, with so little support or recognition. I say the > good doctor has no reason to feel bad about his show of emotion. The whole > conference was touched and found meaning in it. Now for those of us who are > becoming more certain that the winds of change are blowing at last, to find > the gumption to push this thing over the finish line! > > Steve High >
