Superhydrides approach room temperature superconductivity at high pressure
March 4, 2019, American Physical Society
https://phys.org/news/2019-03-superhydrides-approach-room-temperature-superconductivity.html#jCp
What no one is talking about … at least not yet … is using dense hydrogen in
p
Jupiter has a mysterious internal heat source which is not based on nuclear
fission.
The core of the planet is extremely hot but not enough for nuclear fusion
either.
The heat source cannot be leftover from planetary formation as it is far too
intense.
There are many conjectures about the so
Magnetic motors magically appear in cyberspace from time to time, but usually
they will demagnetize quickly or never work to begin with.
Supposedly, however, there is one version which has been operating in Las
Vegas for a while.
At least it is aptly located… Place your bets…
https://over
Apparently, the favored explanation given by investors in IEC is that the
inventor came up with a “monopole” permanent magnet (most likely a
pseudo-monopole).
The following older patent assigned to the US Army, is the Leupold patent,
which describes a permanent composite magnet in which materi
It’s that time of year again.
From: Nigel Dyer
:-)
AlanG wrote:
Just announced by Quantum Heat:
https://goo.gl/DbWyn1
This paper is most disappointing if it represents the extent of progress of
BLP over the past 30 years.
The results from Thermacore decades ago were way more impressive.
Why have Mills investors been so patient over all these years?
From: mix...@bigpond.com
See
https://brilliantlightpower.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/human-ancestor-species-0011685
One of the big knocks about the Holmlid effect – where the claim is that
hydrogen
is completely annihilated- showing up primarily as muons, which then decay (but
can catalyze fusion before decay) is the low input energy used by Holmlid.
This annihilation process is well known in beamlines at th
Oops meant to say “antiproton” not “ antineutron.” Presumably laser
irradiation of dense
hydrogen would make antiprotons from protons by flipping the charge. The
antimatter
then annihilates with matter… but without the GeV level of input formerly
used…
Perhaps either antiparticle is possib
Hi Robin
> In order to flip the charge, you probably need to add the difference in
> energy,
i.e. 2 proton masses worth, or about 2 GeV.
[snip]
It is very doubtful that the entire mass-energy of a proton is to be found in
charge alone which is the implication of what you are saying.
For inst
A yellow-green laser pulse – according to Holmlid and replicated by Olafsson
in Iceland and Zeiner-Gunderson in Norway – produces a large number of muons
per pulse. They have performed sophisticated measurements to ascertain this.
The photons of the laser which provides the input for the Holm
… correction… meant to say the photons of the laser which provides the input
for the Holmlid effect have an individual mass-energy of less than one eV. To
put that into the context of charge conjugation – there are a few papers out
there such as
“Direct, Resonant Production of States with Po
Hi Robin,
➢ It violates conservation of charge unless one can simultaneously flip the
charge of an electron, which would be the equivalent of getting a proton and an
electron to swap charges.
Hmmm… Perhaps that is exactly what happens on a transient basis. Some kind of
double charge reversal
AMAZING !
From: Terry Blanton
After all, do you think they plan to power these guys on lithium (maybe
di-lithium)?
https://youtu.be/KEMt58ePNDs
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331968180_Ultradense_protium_p0_and_deuterium_D0_and_their_relation_to_ordinary_Rydberg_matter_a_review
There is a clue here about why the output in muons has been difficult for
others to duplicate.
It turns out that the active material must be in the fo
ecause the Holmlid effect violates
the baryon number conservation law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon_number
JonesBeene wrote:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331968180_Ultradense_protium_p0_and_deuterium_D0_and_their_relation_to_ordinary_Rydberg_matter_a_review
There is a
Robin,
On first glance, one obvious thermodynamic problem is steam – in that every
fission fragment capable of knocking off a neutron is also able to boil off
several hundred million molecules of heavy water in the process of
thermalizing.
Consequently maintaining a liquid state with unifo
Another possibility for LENR is that dense hydrogen clusters configure
themselves to assume the “strange metal” state. The orbital electron becomes
effectively unbound and minimally associated with any single nuclepn. If the
electrons then form into much denser Cooper pairs, due to the assoc
From: Andrew Meulenberg
➢ A possible weakness in the ICCF-14 model is the assumption that the increased
effective mass of a lattice electron would be valid for atomic-hydrogen
spacings (dimensions) below that of the lattice.
Andrew,
There is an interesting and possibly unplanned convergence
Why wouldn’t it would make more sense to contact a company located in London
who manufacture or sell gamma spectrometers to do the testing using one of
their own experts?
There must be one or more companies located in or near London that would
likely do this testing for free – for the public
This will be happening in a couple of hours.
http://earthenginelive.com/
There are many red flags with this company but … maybe they have found
something usable.
I doubt if this show-and-tell will be anything more than the “tin cup” plea for
investor dollars, but give them the benefit of the
Thanks for posting this Fran,
It probably has wider significance than hydrogen storage.
Here is the patent which explains more than most patents and hinds at thermal
anomalies
https://patents.google.com/patent/US9960441B2/en
Apparently, many experts were/are unaware of Kubas binding.
From
Beam him up Scotty …
From: Terry Blanton
Well, he likely now knows the truth about intelligent life:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/stanton-friedman-ufologist-dead-1.5135588
This favorable article was written by a WSJ writer, but has not appeared in the
WSJ yet.
https://revolution-green.com/one-mans-unlikely-quest-power-world-magnets/
I agree with Terry that there is no known reason in physics for this device to
work.
And… there are lots of reasons including centuries of experience as witnessed
in a litany of failed attempts - for this kind of device not to work.
Curiously, Terry was involved in a magmo project which was ar
BTW – this German patent turns up
https://patents.google.com/patent/DE4304132A1/en
The information in the patent could be instructive – IF – there is any anomaly
at all in the Danzik device.
They are suggesting a low rpm anomaly – which could involve spin-spin coupling
interactions on several
see a clear exception to the LoT.
Consequently, I hope the Danzik thing is not another scam, but as of now – he
has not been able to convince many skeptics.
From: Jed Rothwell
JonesBeene wrote:
Nevertheless, I predict that humans will keep on trying to “supersize it” –
even as Dennis
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/experiment-hints-quantum-entanglement-inside-protons
An experiment hints at quantum entanglement inside protons
LHC data suggests the proton’s constituent quarks and gluons share weird links
By Emily Conover
If the proton’s quarks are held together in part due
The big difference in Holmlid’s concept of dense hydrogen and the densest
possible phase if water ice is the required pressure.
Ice-11 cannot exist on earth outside of a diamond anvil press. Holmlid says the
UDH of his theory actually forms in a near vacuum while the dense ice requires
unbelie
From: bobcook39...@hotmail.com
Jones—
Was Lanthanum one of the isotopes identified in the ash of any LENR tests per
your recall?
Bob Cook
Bob,
There is a paper from 2013 from Lewis Larsen, Lattice Energy on transmutation
as source of scarce elements
Not sure if it is what you are looing for
From: Terry Blanton
> Side note: if we simply rate the battery capacity higher, there is no
> overunity.
Or you just might have discovered a way to desulfinate the battery plates.
http://teslachargers.com/
If Mr. Danzik has succeeded in proving otherwise let him shout it to the
hilltops. L
Palladium is considered fully loaded when the ratio of hydrogen to metal is 1:1.
Several metals will form stable hydrides with 3 protons per each metal atom.
Anything more than 3 per metal atom could be called a superhydride.
Query: What is the only metal in the periodic table which can be redu
https://phys.org/news/2019-05-discusses-reopening-case-cold-fusion.html
From: Axil Axil
The Hessdalen Lights in Norway and the Marfa Lights in Texas are two places out
of many that occur around the world where lights that are the size of full
sized buses float in the sky. These lights are seen mostly at night.
These light have been studied for years and the consens
Axil,
This looks like the same page which you posted 16 months ago
https://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg115810.html
It would be great to see or hear of some progress in the pursuit of this
technology – if there is any.
The most frustrating thing about the Holmlid effect is th
If anyone is still holding out hope that this is not a continuation of the
Joseph Newman delusion…
https://earthenginelive.com/
Starts soon – 1 pm Pacific time
?oq=WO+82%2f03300
I have reason to beleive that there is a working version of this.
Nigel
JonesBeene wrote:
BTW – this German patent turns up
https://patents.google.com/patent/DE4304132A1/en
The information in the patent could be instructive – IF – there is any anomaly
at all in the Danzik
This is a well-written article about the apparent claim of room temperature
superconductivity coming from India last year,
https://thewire.in/the-sciences/iisc-room-temperature-superconductor-gold-silver-magnetic-susceptibility
The problem is that there is still no replication and the upgraded p
the
process economically viable as well as technically viable.
Badhai, chaps… you may have opened the door.
From: JonesBeene
This is a well-written article about the apparent claim of room temperature
superconductivity coming from India last year,
https://thewire.in/the-sciences/iisc-room
This is the same story previously reported here and elsewhere, with a bit more
info and pics courtesy of National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/05/cold-fusion-remains-elusive-these-scientists-may-revive-quest/
From: Axil Axil
➢ How might potassium catalyze the long chain like crystal structure typified
in Ultra dense hydrogen?
This is an excellent question as it goes to various theories - all of which are
based on insufficient proof and conflict with each other in the details.
Mills is apparently
Other relevant details - a wavelength of 22.8 nanometers corresponds to an
energy of 54.4 eV.
Everyone wants to find some kind of resonance which causes proton
annihilation, but is resonance a valid consideration?
The laser light used by Holmlid has a frequency of 532 nm or thousands of tim
Time flies … as they say. Four years ago there was a neglected insight on one
relevant detail:
Nanoporous iron oxide catalyst is featured in this article from Nature. The
Holmlid coupling mechanism, which is no-obvious, could thereby be disclosed.
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep09733
Ther
Forget IEC –as it is clearly little more than another Steorn. But for those
who still hold out the hope that there could be some kind of novel validity to
the magmo concept - IEC notwithstanding – here is another twist which foregoes
the idea that the inventor must “super-size it” to reach sel
The first device which comes to mind from many years ago is the Wimshurst
machine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimshurst_machine
I doubt if there is rigorous proof… otherwise someone out there would surely
try to supersize it…
From: Chris Zell
the possibility of “sparkgap OU”
Has there e
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190606101831.htm
Magnetism seen in Earth’s mantle attributed to iron oxide (hematite) in this
study, but they did not consider another candidate.
Given that hematite is a catalyst/storage medium in Holmlid’s work on the
densification of hydrogen,
Andrew,
The similarity and contrasts between your work on dense (small) hydrogen and
that of several others is truly remarkable. Many brilliant researchers are
looking at the shadows on Plato’s cave. A breakthrough is surely imminent.
Other scholarly papers would include those of Mills, Holmlid
How low can you go?
Picometers are so passe’…
The $64 question… what is the densest of the dense?
Has anyone ever put together a table which lists the various theories of dense
hydrogen and also lists the diameter of the densest species supported by the
theory?
This could be an opportune ti
OMG – Industrial Heat is the big mystery? Give me a break.
CNBC has sunk to a new low these days or else this story was supposed to run on
April 1.
Maybe they should hire Laura away from Faux News to give them more creds …
From: Jack Cole
CNBC: Brad Pitt and Laurene Powell Jobs are reported
For all of the spin doctors out there on vortex…
There is some new lingo to play with - a quasiparticle known at the “roton”
which been shown to violate the 2nd Law – at least in a superfluid.
Actually – the concept is not new – simply ignored over the past few decades
http://adsabs.harvard.ed
From: Jed Rothwell
…Tadahiko Mizuno will report increased excess heat with nickel mesh coated with
palladium. The results are dramatic, so we decided to upload a preprint of his
paper.
Wow ! This could be huge if it can be replicated – finally an experiment with
high COP at the kilowatt out
Jed,
Quick question.
Why not put the reactor in a water bath and confirm the excess heat that way? …
or water flow.
Few observers are going to be satisfied with air flow alone. Does high heat
transfer quench the effect?
Jones
From: Jed Rothwell
…Tadahiko Mizuno will report increased ex
Of course the major assumption will be that this is typical “cold fusion” –
should it be duplicated. But is there more to it than the normal P&F effect?
Definitely there could be more since this is neither electrolysis nor glow
discharge. It is worth noting that in some ways the mechanism of lo
… that’s good, Robin.
Even better would be na organic Rankine cycle (ORC) to convert the modest
temperature gain in the warm fluid into electrical power.
Forget calorimetry when you have enough COP for self-power which is the present
claim.
Nothing proves “net gain” like “self-powering” …
I
Here is another question for Jed – probably factually unanswerable but informed
opinion will suffice.
This experiment is so similar to what has been done before over 30 years –
what is the one detail which makes it so much more robust?
On the basis of a few reads – it looks to me like the one
Robin,
Another looming possibility is that only sparse nuclear fusion reactions are
happening but most of the thermal gain comes from BEC dominated processes
where mass is converted into energy in such a way that the thermal gain is
more than chemical but less than fusion. Most likely the e
Here is a bit of a shocker if you haven’t been following this breaking news
closely.
The connection of Mizuno to the Holmlid UDD (ultra dense deuterium) phenomenon
may be closer than most observers are aware.
Late last year – after the earthquake – Mizuno supplied a test reactor to
Sindre Zein
Of interest – could the heat of the Mizuno device be partly or mostly nuclear…
but also … NON-fusion and NON-weak force ?
A mass-energy value which keeps turning up in dense hydrogen cluster papers is
630 eV. It apparently relates to energy released by a cluster of dense hydrogen
which has beco
One detail which may figure into the understanding of the new Mizuno work is
the wavelength of photons at 630 eV.
Dense deuterium as it is characterized in about two dozen papers will have a
binding energy of ~630 eV – at least that is the energy signature which has
been measured. Mizuno ment
Oops,
Should be
“Two nm is the separation geometry for maximum appearance (compressive force)
of the Casimir force”
Instead of
“Two nm is the maximum separation geometry for the appearance of the Casimir
force”
IOW - the Casimir force is seen most strongly within a range of 2-12 nm - but
it
Robin,
The separation distance of dense deuterium is about 2 picometers in Holmlid’s
model
From: mix...@bigpond.com
… 2 nm = 20 Angstrom ~= 28 times the separation distance of the of the D nuclei
in a Deuterium molecule. If Deuterium molecules are too big to undergo fusion
using the strong for
Yes.
Basically I am simply looking for connections which can explain the thermal
gain with the fewest conflicts.
That is not an easy task – but this looks far less like nuclear fusion than
does P&F electrolysis.
From: mix...@bigpond.com
In reply to JonesBeene's message of Thu, 20 Jun 2019
From: Axil Axil
➢ The gain might not be thermal, but ultraviolet light.
Technically , if the main mechanism for gain is photonic in the 630 eV range –
that mass-energy level is categorized as a soft x-ray which is stronger than
EUV.
If this turned out to be a Mills-type of hydrino reacti
Here is a further comment about the Mizuno heater and its possible non-obvious
functionality.
Think of the heater as a IR light source. The heat is actually not the purpose
so much as the photons, which may be close to coherency at the best setting.
IOW the “heater” may server the same purpos
If the main function of the Mizuno heater wire (very thin resistance wire) was
merely to raise the gas temperature of the reactor – then an external heater
could do the same.
However, if the more important function of the heater wire is to provide a IR
light source for plasmon/polariton formati
This is Rothwell’s presentation of Mizuno’s earlier work on the nickel mesh
setup - from last fall.
At this stage neither of them was aware of things to come within a few months
of time which made a big difference in the ease of going to a robust level of
gain.
It is very helpful to put the 4
Check Zeiner-Gundersen’s presentation at ICCF-21. Not sure but it could have
come out in later questioning.
From: Teslaalset
"In fact, it is now becoming evident what Sindre Zeiner-Gundersen may have
meant when he said that they are no longer using the Shell catalyst (iron
oxide) of Holmlid b
Well - I would suggest writing to ZG directly - to ask what catalyst Norront
now favors…
However, I have heard that he is not responsive to questions which involve
trade secrets.
Which stands to reason – after all they do plan to go to market with a
commercial product.
From: Teslaalset
I
From: bobcook39...@hotmail.com
Low gas pressure would also reduce the heat transfer coeff. between the Ni mesh
and the wall of the reactor… creating coupling to the phonic lattice energy
states
Yes there are a number of reasons to suspect that mutual coupling and positive
feedback between
Can surface plasmons couple with dense hydrogen accumulating in nano cracks -
in order to form large clusters of bosons at warm temperatures ? The cluster
would contain many bound bosons (deuterium) in a condensed state. In effect, it
is a “warm BEC”. If so then there is an instant route to the
From: Alberto De Souza
…I believe this setup is skeptic-proof (if we have a large COP, as Mizuno has
had) and will save us from those ad nauseam debates about calorimetry. It is
also cheaper than alternatives using a calorimeter.
If testing an active reactor against a control reactor – how w
Thanks to Ron Clark for noticing this important detail.
In the Mizuno Table entitled: “Rub surface of nickel mesh with Pd rod” which
is from the earlier work going back a few years…
Mizuno ran some tests with both H2 and D2 to look for differences at various
pressures - using the nickel mess
An important detail which may already be known to Mizuno, in the context of the
recent breakthrough is the possibility of spectral line emissions in the Balmer
series particularly the Balmer alpha line at 656 nm or of course any of the
most energetic lines.
At least one of the reactors has a w
I should have visited google scholar before posting the previous as the answer
was online already.
Here is good paper from Mizuno which should be part of the ongoing discussion
over the merits of the nickel mesh experiments.
J. Condensed Matter Nuclear Sci. 25 (2017)
“Observation of Excess He
Yes -- It is almost certain the magnitude of the effect he claims could not be
so far wrong as to negate most of the strong anomalous thermal signal.
But what about other kinds of testing? (non thermal)
Is there any data from radiation testing, mass spectrometry (appearance of
helium) spect
From: Jed Rothwell
➢ Two or three people have suggested to me that Mizuno's reaction must be
unstable because it is exponential and self-heating. I do not think so.
But Mizuno and other have suffered runaway reactions in the past which are
completely unexplained to this day since they did not
Robin,
It would be almost impossible to be sure that the amount of gas was constant
since the pressure varies during operation and small leaks are inevitable. Plus
- where is gain coming from?
Mass is being converted into energy but how? That method would be critical to
know to calculate the
FWIW. This detail may have relevance to the Mizuno breakthrough (claimed) … or
not.
Surface plasmons are a hot topic in physics these days. If surface plasmons are
important to the new Mizuno results then the resistance heater which he uses
may be an important component, even if it was chosen
Jack,
When your post came through, I was thinking about the simple experiments you
did some time ago with nickel and nitinol and whether or not anything from the
recent Mizuno reports could be transposed to simple electrolysis experiments,
in general. It could be worth thinking about.
Obviou
Interesting that palladium at $1400/ ounce or 27 grams - is now more expensive
than gold and almost twice as valuable as platinum.
This – despite the electric car phenomenon.
80% of all mined Pd goes into catalytic converters. The Russians are said to
control the market for Pd in one way or
Going back in history 4500 years, give or take a few – some genius merchant or
trader figured out a simple and accurate way to test the purity of gold.
The “touchstone” was a piece of dark schist type rock - which was used for
testing the putative gold by observing the color of the mark left on
Moving forward – this month of July could be unusually hot, to speak… Energy
Independence Day could be upon us.
Several top researchers are now committed to a Mizuno replication and underway
already. Even more are thinking seriously about parts of it - and there are
literally dozens of crafty
Is there a strong connection between computer design and LENR? The connection
may be non-obvious for now, but in a few months it may be state of the art,
right Axil?
Here is a News story from yesterday which may explain Axil’s recent observation
of a novel QM connection between the Mizuno set
From: Jürg Wyttenbach
➢ The connection missing since decades was the fact that super-conduction is
spin-current and not electron flux and not copper pair flux.
This situation would seem to favor “local superconductivity” such as where a
palladium nanoparticle absorbs light in a narrow frequenc
With a COP of 10 - if (IF!) that lofty goal is really possible on a continuous
level, this is perhaps the first time that it makes sense to look at the
potential end markets which can return the most, the soonest; and thereafter to
plan ahead with a form factor in mind that suits that particul
From: Arnaud Kodeck
➢ You [Jed} are assuming that D + D gives He4. In the Mizuno reactor, we still
don’t know exactly what is the reaction taking place there. It could be Ni + D
-> Cu or Pd + D -> Ag. Let’s hope that that the Pd is not consumed in the
Mizuno reactor otherwise all you plans in
Hydrogen adsorbs rapidly into cold palladium. At about 260°F hydrogen begins to
desorb slowly. When gas is absorbing, the nanoparticle heats up and when it is
desorbing it cools down. No arguments there.
At somewhere around 300°F there is an emergent see-saw dynamic where the
cooling (caused b
Could the mechanical application of palladium to nickel be one of these new
topologies?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02062-0?WT.ec
If so, then well-known computer chip processing such as nano lithography could
offer improvements ... and/or standardization.
According to the gen
From: Axil Axil
Quote from: Dr. Pamela Mosier-Boss
SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego, CA
“We believe the two phenomena, LENR and high T c superconductivity, are related
and that both need to be investigated in order to gain an understanding of the
processes occurring inside the Pd lattice... Tr
From: H LV
➢ However delocalization can in principle happen to protons as well…
Isn’t hydronium a classic example of delocalization of protons?
If so, the H2O/H3O+ ratio of oceans at any given time means that proton
delocalization is not an uncommon occurrence.
Too bad this is not an easy phe
Here is an interesting question with a non-obvious application to LENR –
involving the Meissner effect and magnetic focusing.
It's unclear from the literature whether the Meissner Effect can be used to
focus an object in a static magnetic field. For instance, imagine two strong
magnets facing
stays inside the
ring. (Of course there are more parameters like real mass etc. for an exact
model)
I used this in my old LENR writeup to explain how magnetic focusing of Li*-H*
works...
Am 07.07.19 um 17:27 schrieb JonesBeene:
Here is an interesting question with a non-obvious applicat
I must have signed up to get notices from USPTO since neither the inventor nor
the application is familiar.
Anyway – today this effort to Patent a particular concept for a LENR reactor
was abandoned by Dan Steinberg, whoever that is - and the claimed operational
mechanism appears to be strongl
ould have confirmed the W-L theory. I do not remember
that it did. (See the final report of 2016)
Bob Cook
_
From: JonesBeene 1
I must have signed up to get notices from USPTO since neither the inventor nor
the application is familiar.
Anyway – today this ef
ings about NASA’s ethics and their
scientific/engineering capability
From: JonesBeene
I must have signed up to get notices from USPTO since neither the inventor nor
the application is familiar.
Anyway – today this effort to Patent a particular concept for a LENR reactor
was abandoned by
SLIGHTLY OFF TOPIC … or maybe not for those interested in energy efficiency.
For certain, this long video below will be of interest to anyone contemplating
the purchase of an electric car… or to electric engineers.
The speaker – Sandy Munro is an automotive expert who reverse engineered the
Mo
From: bobcook39...@hotmail.com
➢ In the 1960’s there was reported to be a rapid heating of large steel block
Sandia was trying to magnetize. The block turned white hot in an instant, but
did not melt. The research went dark. I can not find a reference to that work
to this day…It may have bee
The problem with any analysis being touted as the basis for future devices -
is pinpointing the full and correct understanding of the operating principle.
Unfortunately, the operating principle of this device is not well-described by
Ed Storms. It would be a big mistake to apply Storms’ insigh
From: Jed Rothwell
➢ I assume there is one fundamental cause of cold fusion in all systems. It is
the same thing in all cases. This is similar to saying that fission is the same
in reactors and bombs, although it looks and acts quite different.
This “one fundamental cause” could be the problem
From: Jürg Wyttenbach
➢ In the Mizuno case we certainly will see 4-He with a 4-He a part > that 106
of the 3-He part.
Jürg
If Mizuno is producing helium then it should show up very distinctly when he
looks for it- since the total gas inventory is so low and the power is so high
that the ratio
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