LENR will always occur in a nanoparticle environment when pumped by an electric discharge. This is witnessed by many experiments involving exploding foils comprised of various types of metals.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> wrote: > First, the fact that the same output could be obtained with a 5J input is > completely undocumented - it is just thrown out there and without presented > demonstration or experimental data - the comment is worthless. > > Their calorimetry appears to be flawed. They have apparently modified the > calorimeter to bring in huge current carrying conductors, and everyone > knows that what carries current well also transports heat well. The heat > carried by these conductors needed to be calibrated out of the reaction, > but this was done in a way that did not account for the heat contained in > the ejecta of the actual experiment. The result is an overestimation of > the heat carried out by the conductors and subsequently an overestimation > of the COP. > > I am not saying that his COP is less than 1. I think he may be realizing > excess heat. I just don't believe his claim for high COP at all. And with > low COP, you will not be able to convert to electricity with net gain. I > think he has an advantage in that he has high enthalpy of his output, but > the COP is low. The prospect of converting MW of light (even if the > efficiency made sense) is pretty ridiculous. I built a 5.4 kW array for > solar electric and it had 67 square meters of collection area. Do you > really think he will be able to collect even 5 kW in a single square meter? > 100kW would melt the PV cells due to inefficiency. It is about as > [im]practical as his completely flawed plan to use MHD conversion. > > Note also the work of Santilli with similar high current experiments. His > work was subsequently reproduced by Kadeisvili. Santilli showed that in > high current discharge, LENR transmutation occurred at a reasonably high > rate. The transmutation evidence was strong, indicating LENR was occurring > in this high current discharge. Mills may actually get excess heat, but > much of it may be coming from LENR. Mills does not want this to be the > case, because heat produced via LENR would not be covered by his patents. > So he doesn't look for the transmutation products in his result, or he > doesn't publish that data. Mills may be correct about the fractional > quantum states of hydrogen and they may be complicit in LENR. But he would > lose a lot of his patent value if the heat were proved to actually be > coming from LENR. > > Bob Higgins > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Jojo Iznart <jojoiznar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> If I remember correctly, it is about 2/3 to 3/4 of the way on video 1. >> A guy named Jim??? did the bomb calorimetry and he showed the output graph >> of the temp rise which he calculated to be around 623+ J. Randy then >> explain that the input power was around 200+ J because the fuel was >> enclosed in an aluminum sphere shell so it takes energy to vaporize the >> aluminum sphere shell also. He then explained that if the fuel is >> detonated directly, that the input energy is 5J instead of 200+ J. They >> then explained that in this particular single explosion, the COP was 4+. >> >>
