John, I’m quite familiar with what Meulenberg has written over the years on the DDL but it is not his invention. He deserves lots of credit for promoting it, however.
Nor is the DDL really attributable to Mills. In fact, RM can be faulted for
not acknowledging the previous work. Mills does add the Rydberg steps, which
is a nice touch.
In fact, Meulenberg is well aware of the Rice/Kim objections, and he cannot
counter them, or at least there is no indication in published documents that
he can. Rice/Kim make a strong case, despite one shaky assumption.
One way to salvage the DDL, since it seems so intuitive to the problem of
LENR, is to consider it as transitory.
IMO – that tactic – a transitory oscillation, with inherent asymmetry, can
work; but - a time-stable DDL is probably out of the picture.
From: Foks0904
I don't mind the Mills hypothesis. I wouldn't be shocked if
it was correct. You can even tell Storms has a begrudging respect for it. I
like the Meulenberg-Sinha take on it as well. There was an article form last
year I believe in JCMNS that explores the DDL in depth. Meulenberg seemed to
think it was important. You might find it worthwhile considering your
interest in the subject. I just think there are some serious problems with
the model as well -- such as the instability issue.
CF-LENR I think would be an even more amazing story if it
ended up granting insight into dark matter and such. I just wouldn't
proclaim that too loudly at this point -- it's not exactly a
credibility-generating maneuver at this awkward time in CF-LENR's present
development & image.
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Jones Beene
<jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
If there is a real DDL species in LENR (hydrogen isomer with
electron
orbital at less than 10 Fermi), even if it is a transitory
species with a
lifetime of only nanoseconds, then there is a way for nickel
to provide the
thermal gain, by spin coupling with no fusion required. In
fact, if there is
such a DDL species, chances are that it could be a
transitory oscillator,
such that the rate of oscillation is resonant with the
phonon rate of
nickel.
Rice and Kim show here that the DDL is not stable for
extended periods. They
do not show that the DDL is impossible...
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RiceRAcommentsona.pdf
but they also demonstrate that they do not understand Mills'
CQM theory
To overcome the objections to the DDL, and to nickel spin
coupling, please
consider all of these points as a package, and not
individually. Back in
early 2011, we talked about the final revision of the Rossi
patent filing.
In his application Rossi's bets everything on Ni62 as THE
important reactant
- US 2011/0005506. His reasoning could be incorrect, but it
is likely that
Rossi tested pure isotopes and found that Ni-62 was indeed
the active
isotope.
Otherwise Rossi would not have bet the farm on one isotope,
since ... if he
is wrong on that single detail he has lost all protection
against
infringement. QUOTE from application: "Accordingly, it is
indispensable to
use, for the above mentioned exothermal reactions, a nickel
isotope having a
mass number of 62". That pretty much says it all when we
consider the
properties of this isotope (and if we ignore Rossi's
reasoning in the patent
for why this isotope works). He could be "right for the
wrong reason".
BTW - the patent was granted in Europe to his wife Maddalena
Pascucci, who
is an attorney, and presumably had good advice on patent law
- but again -
the US application is not granted. However, the USA is a
signator to the PCT
so Pascucci could get protection here for the nickel-62 part
- and perhaps
for little else.
Why Ni-62 ... and why bet the farm?
Nickel-62 is at the very pinnacle of stability - having the
highest binding
energy per nucleon in the entire Periodic Table (8.8 MeV).
There is no more
stable isotope known to science. This binding stability
would actually
prohibit it from participating in proton nuclear fusion
reactions, as Rossi
suggested, but would allow spin energy (part of the binding
energy) to be
coupled and depleted - simply because there is plenty to
spare. Too bad that
he did not realize this distinction. BTW - it is duly noted
that other
nickel and iron isotopes have very high binding energy as
well, but a lot of
weight goes to Rossi's testing of isotopes against each
other.
That is what is meant by Rossi being "right for the wrong
reason"
This stability of Ni-62, combined with ferromagnetism is
especially relevant
for the combination of a strong magnet with a material which
cannot be
saturated; and the DDL, with an effective field strength at
the 10 Fermi
level in the range of giga-T (billions of Tesla) is that
strong magnet.
Deraz - claims there is no saturation level for NiO, and
even if doubts are
warranted on that particular point, it could be important in
the context of
spin coupling to find an extreme level of saturation
capability, with which
to mate with giga-T fields. The result is spin coupling.
www.electrochemsci.org/papers/vol7/7054608.pdf
In short, as of now, with dozens of alternative theories
floating around for
the gain in Ni-H, the best emerging scenario - from my
perspective seems to
be one which is
1) No fusion occurs in Ni-H. It is a different beast
that Pd-D.
2) But the gain is Nuclear, in the sense of mass
conversion into energy
3) It is Nanomagnetic in the sense that spin energy is
involved at
small geometry
4) Probably involves a transitory version of the DDL,
which oscillates
at IR frequency, due to SPP interaction at the top and spin
coupling at the
bottom, such that the collapse and reinflation are slightly
asymmetric in
energy
5) Thus there is net heat.
6) The gain comes mostly from Ni-62 by spin coupling to
its high level
of composite spin,
7) Oxygen if present in the nickel in small amounts
could allow
increased saturation capability
8) It is not clear if the Ni-62 gives up some of its
own mass, or is a
gateway to the Dirac "sea" ... Either way, this is LENR but
it is also
"non-fusion LENR"
Any and all of these suggestion are subject to change as
soon as better data
arrives. All we can do now is look at the big picture as
being shadows on
Plato's cave.
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