A few months ago, an interesting compound was discovered which could
relate to LENR. Some of this info is from the site/Lab of Joe Eck -
Superconductor.org. He is the leading authority on high temperature
superconductivity.
http://www.superconductors.org/topanion.htm
The document discusses the making and testing of the only high
temperature superconductor (HTSC) which has the desired Meissner effect
above the boiling point of water. That is an important detail,
especially if it should also turn out that precise temperature control
is essential for one type of energy conversion involving catalytic
recombination for gain.
Over the years there has been a lot of talk about a possible cross
connection between HTSC and LENR. This connection begins with the fact
that palladium hydride is superconductive, while the Pd metal is not.
The first major paper on the subject: HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
AND COLD FUSION by Mario Rabinowitz of the Electric Power Research
Institute, EPRI - December I989 ... talked about the numerous
historical and scientific parallels between HTSC and the newly emerging
field of cold fusion (CF). The author supplies a complicated rationale
for this. Yet, at the time there were few HTSC materials to experiment
with, much less steam-tolerant materials.
That bit of background is the setup for this scenario - catalytic
splitting of water and immediate recombination as wet steam... for net
gain. Arguably, one would use the steam to both cool a reaction very
precisely around a transition temperature - and produce work. The
underlying gain need not be nuclear but more like Mills redundant ground
states or "non-symmetrical" supra-chemistry. It can be noted that Mills
devotes a subchapter in the new version of his theory to Vanadium.
Plus, an excellent commercial spillover catalyst is the alloy of 95%
nickel and 5% vanadium. This double duty feature points to gain deriving
from splitting of protons from H2O... and since the catalyst is
superconductive the Meissner effect insures that a free proton gets
moved away quickly so that thermal gain comes from an inherent asymmetry
which is absent if they recombine immediately. In effect, such a
catalyst converts a QM effect into a macro result.
There is of course no instance in known chemistry where a redox process
can be sequentially operated for net gain over time. But HTSC is novel
for chemists - especially in the context of a catalyst. Laws are made to
be broken.
A compound which operates as both a spillover catalyst and HTSC could be
valuable for any number of reasons less exotic than thermal gain.
Vanadium could be the key to either. What is unique about this metal,
which sits between titanium and chromium in the Periodic Table?
Dunno, but it could relate to density in some ill-defined way. The
element is a third higher density than Ti and thus can be called the
first heavy metal to occur in the periodic table... hmm... maybe it is a
stairway to heaven, so to speak.
