Jack: Did you try to roughen the surface of the lattice substrate metal with spark discharge as Mizuno has done in his experiments. A rough reaction surface is the key to nanoplasmonic activity and the production of Surface Plasmon Polaritons.
All the successful LENR experiments that I know about have used roughened substrate surfaces in their methods. On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Jack Cole <jcol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jones, > > I'm still around. :) I put my electrolysis experimentation on pause > after doing something like 200 experiments with nothing to convince me I > had found anything. I had some hope for Brillouin Energy, but after all > this time at SRI with no results reported, it gives me doubts about whether > Godes had what he thought. I decided not to pursue replicating his method > until something more is released from him. > > Anyway, I'm not very hopeful for nickel-based electrolysis being able to > produce LENR--at least nothing I have tried has convinced me. There is a > lot to convince me that false positives are easy to obtain when you are > looking for lower levels of excess heating. It needs to be the last > conclusion you come to after considering alternatives and designing > experiments to test the alternatives. Time after time, the results of my > follow up experiments supported the alternative explanation. I'm hoping the > Rossi report comes out positive as the probability of a false positive at > his previously-reported power levels would be nearly impossible to obtain. > > Just to summarize, I tried various materials (Nicrome, constantan, > nitinol, thoriated tungsten, cuprothal, all of the above plated with > nickel) and various types of triggering (AC, pulsed DC, alternating DC with > pulsed AC, high frequency/high current AC alternating with DC, external > heating, laser, permanent magnet, different electrolytes). I tried slow > loading over several days to a week at low current followed by active runs > and attempts to trigger. I tried prepping material in light acid followed > by cleaning with acetone. > > Best regards, > Jack > > > > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > >> Special thanks should be accorded to Dennis Cravens for his openness and >> the >> great detail of information which he has provided on a most important >> experiment. He deserves a big award for this work, even if it turns out >> not >> to be nuclear fusion, per se - and especially if it does turn out to be >> LENR. Why hasn't a National Lab replicate this important work? (Rhetorical >> question and the answer is obvious). >> >> For the record - here is more background on LaNi5, which is looking >> more-and-more like the magic bullet for Ni-H thermal effects when combined >> with a magnetic field (this combination could be in order to reach a >> superparamagnetic state of self-resonance). >> >> http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/j100476a006 >> >> I should caution that all of the analysis in this thread wrt to LaNi5 is a >> personal and minority appraisal, and that Dennis Cravens along with almost >> everyone else who was involved or saw the experiment, considers it to be a >> version of the Les Case work, involving the fusion of deuterium. Why not? >> It >> is fully derivative of that line of experimental work and so on ... but >> ... >> that may not be sufficient. >> >> IMHO there are good reasons to suspect that there is no nuclear reaction >> and >> the thermal anomaly is related to magnetic interaction with the zero point >> field and with ground-state redundancy, which is different from the Mills >> model in several important ways (but also similar in one way). LaNi5 is >> like >> few other proton conductors (or hydrogen storage alloys) in its physical >> properties, especially combined with magnetic properties. With or without >> a >> Casimir boost, this route should be adequate for gain. Had Jovion of >> Moddel >> realized the properties of LaNi5, we would not be having this >> conversation. >> >> Superparamagnetism and fluorescence show up in nanoparticles of La alloys. >> This alloy absorbs significantly more hydrogen than palladium through pure >> chemisorption at an unbelievably rapid rate. Plus, and most notably, >> almost >> 100% of the element lanthanum is high-spin (7/2) with extreme NMR >> properties. Protons are absorbed directly into the alloy, instead of as >> atoms or molecules, and there is an huge variance (in magnetic properties) >> between protons and atoms. >> >> Hyperfine structure due to spin and Rydberg states interact in a >> mysterious >> way, and from the perspective of Rydberg values in Mills' theory, the La >> alloy when in a crystal unit at a ratio with nickel of 5:1, we have a >> persistent orbital vacancy or "hole" an seemingly without ionization, due >> only to an orbital vacancy - of enthalpy corresponding to 191.9 eV, as >> opposed to the optimum value of 190.4 eV. >> >> In short, that near-perfect fit makes LaNi5 look like the real-deal for >> thermal anomalies in a modified (alternative) Millsean understanding which >> can be called "cold f/H" since the redundant state follows chemisorption >> and >> is a relic of the expulsion of labile protons from the metal matrix, >> instead >> of the opposite modality. In fact, if there is UV emission, and there >> could >> be none - then it could be shed resonantly inside a Casimir pit or cavity >> as >> the proton emerges from the matrix and captures an electron at the 1/7th >> orbital. >> >> The downside of this short search has been trying to find an ethical >> supplier of LaNi5 for experimentation. LaNi5 seems to be available from >> several sources in China for $25 kg in ton quantities, but chemical supply >> houses in the USA have inflated that price by a factor of 5,000 for small >> quantities. If anyone finds a good supplier for small quantities, please >> post the information. >> _____________________________________________ >> >> I just noticed a curious detail about the Cravens NI-Week >> demo which we have been talking about, but which many have overlooked in >> importance ... and especially one particular datum of info. >> >> >> http://www.infinite-energy.com/images/pdfs/NIWeekCravens.pdf >> >> On page 3, Dennis explains "lnside the sphere is a >> hydrogen >> storage material. We used material taken from a commercial fuel cell >> storage >> metal (Hydrofil) that was loaded with deuterium." >> >> As best I can tell from online sources, the storage metal >> used in this Hydrofill cartridge is known as proprietary AB5, but in >> reality >> is the generic hydrogen storage alloy- LaNi5 which is lanthanum >> penta-nickel. >> >> Whoa... that rings a bell so to speak. This material was >> predicted some time ago to be active on its own for thermal gain in >> reversible storage situations due to one special property. That property >> would be in addition to lanthanum being almost exactly the mass-energy of >> the Higgs boson :-) >> >> >> >> http://www.micromeritics.com/Repository/Files/The_Heat_of_Adsorption_of_Hydr >> ogen_Gas_on_Lanthanum_Pentanickel.pdf >> <http://www.micromeritics.com/Repository/Files/The_Heat_of_Adsorption_of_Hydrogen_Gas_on_Lanthanum_Pentanickel.pdf> >> Here are several far-out predictions based on gut feeling >> and 6th sense intuition based somewhat on Higgs and somewhat on >> nanomagnetism - >> >> 1) Cravens device depends on the unique chemisorption properties of >> LaNi5 combined with a magnetic material - and will not produce as much >> excess heat with any other hydrogen storage material, but will work with >> H2 >> as well or better than with D2. >> 2) Rossi's HotCat also uses LaNi5 for hydrogen storage in connection >> with a magnetic device in the form of a heating coil, and will not produce >> as much excess heat with any other hydrogen storage material. >> >> Thanks to Jack Cole for noticing this detail about LaNi5 >> last year. >> >> Apparently the trick is to use LaNi5 in the context of a >> magnetic field, assuming of course that this is premonition is correct. >> >> Where are you Jack? If these hunches are close, then we >> may >> have almost cracked the mystery. If not, and it comes up short once >> again... >> well... we can call it a 5th sense... :-) >> >> Jones >> >> >
