An open Craven's experiment for ~ $1000? This is incredible news Jones and Dennis.
By self-powered, you mean room temperature (no hot plate required?) One sphere hotter than the control? Experimenters can change ingredients/parameters to tune the effect? The science would really accelerate if the starting point COP was clearly > 1! More details, please!! - Brad On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > Here are the main details for a proposed SPADEX experiment designed to prove > that superparamagnetic hydrogen/deuterium exchange can be a persistent > non-nuclear, Dirac-based (zero point) energy source for self-powered thermal > systems. > > This experiment intentionally does not require great skill and could work > for a Science Fair with adult supervision, since the main components, > including hydrogen and the commercial pressurized H gas filler, have been > designed as educational science projects. Unlike the Cravens NI-Week work, > the hydrogen cartridges are not destroyed. > > The main difficulty for most experimenters will be getting a liter of water > with substantial heavy-water content. A 50/50 mix would seem to be ideal. > There was a lot of free HD-water from CANDU in the eighties, which had been > slightly radioactive, but isn't measurable now. (half-life of T is 12+ > years). It was free at the time, but yours will probably be the highest cost > item in this experiment. > > The HydroStiks and Hydrofill filler are available from several sources > including Amazon. 4-6 Stiks will be needed > http://www.amazon.com/Horizon-Fuel-Cell-Hydrostik-Cartridge/dp/B00C9NV992/ > > http://www.amazon.com/HYDROFILL-Desktop-Hydrogen-Refueling-Station/dp/B009NM > K7I6/ > > A low temperature Stirling is also available from Amazon > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006GT9JMO/ > > The experimental protocol is to fill 4-6 Stiks with a mix of H and D so that > the exchange reaction can take place. A magnetic field must be provided, the > best arrangement of which is not known but bucking mode (polar opposition) > should be tried. The Stiks and magnets can be placed inside a Stainless > steel Thermos which has been prewarmed to near the Néel temperature about > 120 F. The Stirling is placed on top of the Thermos so that all heat from > the H/D exchange reaction must go though the Stirling engine, allowing it to > rotate and maintain that self-powering action ... for months, hopefully. The > small delta-t of H/D exchange should be adequate for this design. > > As for the ultimate source of energy - magnetized protons are thought to be > a gateway to the Dirac epo field at Fermi dimensions. The H/D exchange > reaction allows protons to bring in negative charge from that field, to > power the system. One proof of this will be to float the experiment > electrically and measure the charge. There is no violation of CoE since > mass-energy is brought into the system from outside. > > This is precisely the working hypothesis for thermal gain - which has be put > forward to explain the Cravens NI-Week demo. > > If ... in the mean-time, Dennis proves another M.O. is applicable, then > please disregard all of the above :-) > _____________________________________________ > > This proposed experiment is based on a minority viewpoint, > in the interpretation of Dennis Craven's NI-Week demonstration, which after > due consideration of the past 24 years of LENR, stands out to me as the most > important experiment since 1989. Your assessment may vary, but the pluses of > it are: that it is simple, understated, essentially unpowered, solid state, > robust, long-running, well-constructed, and the error possibilities are > greatly reduced. > > IOW it is "elegant" to the extreme. The highest compliment > that can be leveled at any breakthrough experiment in LENR is "elegance." > > However, I cannot really label the underlying M.O for this > thermal gain as the "Cravens effect" since he is on record as favoring a > nuclear explanation, so for now my version is being called the SPADEX effect > for "superparamagnetic deuterium exchange"... to be explained in following > postings. > > To backup a bit, the H/D exchange reaction is similar to a > form of phase-change, and is a preferential reordering of a loaded metal > matrix, where the two hydrogen isotopes play musical chairs at a rather > phenomenal rate. The H/D exchange reaction can be described in the usual > one-way form as chemical and conservative; or in this interpretation as a > sequential thermal anomaly which is continuously being "reset" via > nanomagnetism and the zero point field. > > The H/D exchange reaction is surprisingly energetic but is > chemical - non-nuclear. So the first question is how can magnetism change > the preferential ordering of a metal matrix where D has already replaced H > for net chemical gain? This would be necessary if the energetic effect is to > be made sequential and cumulative over time- and not a one-way affair. The > second question is where does the reset energy come from. > > When we look at the spin, magnetic moment and NMR properties > of the two isotopes, H & D - there is an enormous difference. Magnetic > moment alone is triple for protons over deuterons and NMR frequency > variation is even more lopsided. In short, the magnetic variation is so > extreme between the two isotopes that the small preference for deuterium in > the chemical exchange reaction is easily modulated (to the extent the > near-field oscillates), which dynamic effect is felt more by protons than by > deuterons. It can be noted that the B-field of samarium-cobalt can be .4 T > at one micron, but at 10 nm spacing - the effect on protons could be > significantly higher (if inverse square holds as expected). > > A magnetic Casimir force will provide that "free" > oscillation in the context of a balance between superparamagnetism and > superferromagnetism. In short, this may be the key to understanding the H/D > exchange reaction as a sequential route to thermal gain in the Cravens > NI-Week experiment. > > An actual self-powered experiment will be presented in the > next post on this subject - which is open-source to the extent that anyone > can order the parts and try it, thanks more to Dennis than to me. Only a > self-powered experiment means anything these days, yet few design for it > from the start, and AFAIK, it has not yet been achieved. Estimate of the > out-of-picket cost is about one-large, as they say in Vegas or Joisey... and > it is a crap-shot, but isn't all of life? > > Jones >
