http://www.amazingrust.com/Experiments/how_to/Thermite.html
Speaking of the oxygen in water, are any of these thermite reactions a candidate for Mills chemistry? Titanium oxide? On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson < orionwo...@charter.net> wrote: > Jones, please correct me if I've misinterpreted your premise, but it's my > understanding that you are speculating that the BLP "SunCell" process is > based primarily on a Ti - plus- O oxidation process that Mills doesn't want > potential financial backers catch on to, at least not right away. Granted, > it may be naive of me to say this but I'm not at present inclined to > conjecture that Mills is operating on such level of deceit. Hopefully, I'll > be proven right, but I have no guarantee of that. > > > > With that said, I completely spaced out the fact that if both H2O intact > and > oxygen being separated from H2O might account for an actual source of free > oxygen that might oxidize with Ti, even if the reaction chamber had been > initially flooded with inert elements like argon or rendered a vacuum. > OTOH, > it's not clear to me how much free oxygen would need to accumulate within > the chamber in order to start oxidizing with Ti to the point of > contaminating and rendering the fuel "powder" useless until it was > reprocessed. As you have pointed out, how much additional energy would the > recycling of the oxidation process consume? If this is what is really going > on the net energy gain is indeed likely to be distinctively negative. > > > > I do recall that on one of the two June 25 videos released, someone asked > Mills about how best to handle a steady accumulation of free oxygen that > would have to be building up within the reactor chamber as the SunCell > process presumably breaks H2O apart. The query was not all that different > from concerns Jones had brought up. Wouldn't oxidation eventually occur and > start mucking things up? Mills response was that all BLP needs to do is > "burn" off the free oxygen by systematically re-introducing free hydrogen > into the gas mixture and then igniting it. At first glance, Mills' answer > sounded counter-productive to me. But then... what it all seems to boil > down > to, at least for me, is whether Mills is telling the truth. Does the > "SunCell" process alter atomic hydrogen. Does "SunCell" technology induce > atomic hydrogen to release huge amounts of "sun" light, UV, and soft X-Rays > while being converted into hydrinos? > > > > It would seem to me that we are currently wrestling with two POVs. Which > one > is the more accurate one? > > > > POV1: From Jones' conjecture, oxidation is the primary form of energy being > released here. As such, when the entire recycling process is taken into > consideration there is no net energy gain. > > > > POV2: Mills conjectures that the energy released is due to a still highly > controversial claim that atomized hydrogen atoms are being transformed in > such a manner as to release huge amounts of heat, light, UV, and soft > X-Rays. Altered hydrogen is being transformed into a smaller hydirno atom > model. Mills also claims recycling the powder catalyst is fast, easy, and > doesn't consume much energy. This directly contradicts POV1's contention > that considerably more energy is needed to the point that no net energy is > actually realized. > > > > Obviously, POV2 is in direct conflict with POV1. > > > > Alas, many "burning" questions remain. > > > > In the meantime, we hope a 1st gen POC device will be delivered to BLP's > laboratory from one of the engineering firms will either prove or disprove > POV1 vs. POV2. Possibly this might happen as soon as this December. In the > meantime, we should stock up on roasted peanuts. > > > > Regards, > > Steven Vincent Johnson > > svjart.orionworks.com > > zazzle.com/orionworks > >
