The intent of the prior posting was not clear. The main point does not relate to tritium per se - but to an improved version of Ni-H with no tritium.
Actually, most experimenters want to avoid tritium altogether, for the
obvious reasons but not Dr. Claytor. It has been his obsession for decades,
and it may pay-off in an unexpected way involving no tritium.
The assumption being made here is that maximum tritium production, when it
is the goal and when it derives from a deuterium LENR reaction, is also
accompanied by maximum excess heat. That is not proved, but seems to be a
logical inference since the conversion of deuterium to tritium is extremely
energetic - millions of times more than chemical.
A secondary inference is that achieving maximum heat, as the new goal, can
be retained while eliminating tritium as a side effect, when deuterium is
eliminated. That second inference is not a given and would need to be
demonstrated in practice. However, tritium in not known to derive from
protium, since that would imply a three-body reaction.
Several recent thread here have followed the convergence of spin, magnetism
and increased thermal gain and Tom Claytor, in pursuit of maximum tritium
may have presented the larger LENR field with an astounding way to move
forward with an improved cathode alloy for hydrogen - IF - his results have
the same applicability to hydrogen as the active gas, as they do to
deuterium. That is the magnetic connection to Mu Metal and the improved
understanding of one form of LENR as being related to spin coupling. There
is almost no doubt that extreme the permeability of a high nickel alloy Mu
Metal would help for spin coupling.
That is where the prior post was going, but it was not clear.
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The use of proprietary Mu Metal as the active matrix for
LENR could turn out to be the most valuable "diamond in the rough" detail to
emerge from MIT. It could be applicable to Mizuno, for instance - as an
improvement over pure nickel.
With deuterium as Claytor's active gas (assumption) the
highest level of tritium is seen as an indicator of the rate of the
anomalous underlying reaction - which would not be ideal for commercial LENR
geared towards the distributed grid, even if the excess energy rate is also
highest.
With hydrogen as the active gas, however, using Co-Netic as
the matrix alloy could result in increased thermal gain, without the
tritium. That would need to be tested.
Mu-metal is a nickel-iron alloy, and the proprietary alloy
in question has high added molybdenum. The high permeability makes mu-metal
useful not only for shielding against static and low-frequency magnetic
fields but also in converting most of the energy of an anomalous
self-generated field into heat. This is a "soft" magnetic material that
saturates at low magnetic fields and that is the key to the coupling magnons
into heat. The high number of inherent Rydberg levels in the ionization
potential of this alloy could be the key.
Many recent thread here have followed the convergence of
spin, magnetism and increased thermal gain. Tom Claytor may have presented
the larger LENR field with an astounding way to move forward with an
improved cathode alloy - IF - his results have the same applicability to
hydrogen, as they do to deuterium.
-----Original Message-----
From: George Holz
One other point of interest. Tom Claytor's
talk on "Recent tritium production from electrically pulsed wires and foils"
showed the highest outputs when he used NiFe foils made for magnetic
shielding applications. I think he mentioned Co-Netic material. Not sure
what else is in the alloy.
George,
This is good information to try to analyze
further, even if the explanation probably played no part whatsoever in this
alloy choice for Claytor.
Co-Netic AA, is a Mu metal which as best I
can tell since the specs do not turn up easily, seems to be
nickel(80%)-iron(15%)-molybdenum(5%) with permeability of 30,000 or more.
It is high nickel, but notably for those who
have not written off Randell Mills, there is the Moly content (which, as the
+2 ion is the very best, in the sense of lowest IP catalytic fit of all
catalysts), plus it has four other deeper Rydberg levels for a total of 5
making it the most catalytic of all transition metals (according to my Mills
CQM table 5.3).
In Mills past experiments, having many
catalysts working together seems to be highly preferable to having only a
few - and nickel and iron both have multiple Rydberg levels.
All in all, from a Mills perspective,
Co-Netic AA would provide 9 unique Rydberg multiples !
Claytor probably saw a correlation between
tritium production and magnetic permeability - and chose this alloy for that
reason, since not many practitioners follow both LENR and Mills for guidance
- but the moly content could be what makes this alloy superior.
If only Mills could show something more
impressive than a modified seam welder, he might get a bit more respect in
LENR...
Jones
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