> > >> The evidence says otherwise. I believe Parkhomov to be an honest > man. If the XH is never reproduced, then it would be likely that it was a > mistake. > However, the evidence shows that what Parkhomov is doing produces > features similar to Lugano HotCat and I still think the HotCat produced XH > even after my emissivity analysis (paper written). > > >> >>
One of the possible mechanisms that is generated by the nickel particles is the establishment of a Bose Einstein condensate from a very early stage within the polariton soliton ensemble. The lack of functional nickel micro particles might be the reason why a decreasing heater resistance is not seen in recent Lugano replication attempts as has been seen in the Lugano test. This lack of condensate development may be causing instability in LENR power production from the dynamic NAE produced by nano-particle aggregation. A soliton BEC would distribute LENR based nuclear power evenly over all Nuclear active Sites (NAE) because of quantum mechanical entanglement of the solitons. When we see that the resistance of the heater coils is reduced to a third of normal, then we know that a global BEC is in place...that BEC will ensure that power is distributed isothermally by BEC based super-fluidity. A sign that the nickel power is not working is the explosions that are occurring when the LENR reactions begin in the nano particles produced by lithium and hydrogen plasma as it cools from the high temperatures over 1100C. > >> >> Rossi says that his nickel is 5 9s pure. >> > 5 9's pure has no bearing on whether the Ni was dissolving. The > Ni has been seen in EDX (Ed Storms' analysis of MFMP ash) the Li-Al-Ni-H > solidified > metal encasing the sintered Ni web. It is now known that the Ni > dissolves in the liquid Li-Al-H. > There was a hydrogen fire that occurred after the alumina core raptured. Much the nickel melted because of the extra heat added to the 1057C temperature where the core failure took place. The fuel was sintered into a solid block by high heat. > >> >>> If the small features of the Ni are not complicit in the LENR, then it >>> is not clear that size of the starting particles mean very much. >>> >> >> Where is reference to this? >> > The reference is the Lugano report and Ed Storms' micrographs of > the MFMP ash. They show the Ni sintered into a 3D web with much larger > dimensions. > I have personally seen this sintering in my experiments with Ni > powder in H2 at much lower pressure. I published a paper showing this. In > the > gas phase experiments, much of the fine features on the carbonyl Ni > particles are maintained, sintering at touching edges. > Thanks for this info. I have always thought that placing the fuel in a pile was a bad idea. The DGT idea of spreading the fuel out in three dimensions in a scaffold of nickel nanofoam would keep the nickel particles apart so that they would not sinter together. > >> >>> The Ni particles get reduced of their oxide easily by 300C and they >>> begin sintering into a porous web long before the reaction begins. Thus, >>> the starting particle size bears fairly little relation to the powder >>> configuration at 900C and above. >>> >>> There is no oxide. Rossi says that his nickel is 5 9s pure. >> > Chemically that statement, is total crap. Whether Rossi started > with 5 9's Ni, it was handled in air so there was an oxide. Further, the > reactor > was sealed with ambient air in it. The fuel also included other > ingredients (Fe2O3 for example, more oxygen and iron which is a normal > contaminant of Ni. Another contaminant is carbon because it is > from a carbonyl process. The carbon may actually be a catalyst in the > end, but it is there in tiny quantities and will be burned out of > the Ni before 700C. The Ni oxide is easy to form and easy to remove in hot > H2. > The 5 9's part is irrelevent in the reaction as long there were no > significant poisons present. Rossi either used it because he had it or > used it > just to be sure what he started with. > To really know how the chemistry of the fuel evolves with time and temperature is to run a series of experiments that test the fuel at regular temperature steps by stopping the experiment at those temperature snapshots and do an chemical analysis of the fuel as it existed at that particular temperature. This chemical evolutionary process is complicated and experiment is more determinative than analysis.
