From the tone and phrasing, KevMo is just Mark Goldes (Marketing Officer at Chava Energy) who has been a busy camper on the blogosphere, putting the same inane comments elsewhere. Busy setting up websites like the dead www.energyblogs.com.
Looked at the 2 latest publications from BlackLight. One on the chemical experiments. The other on the plasma/emission front.
First, on the chemical front. Looking at the hydride/hydrino experiments at Rowan and at Blacklight in the past 5 years, the excess energy ratio has decreased from 20:1, 10:1, 5:1, and now 3:1. The trend is approaching 1:1 and there is nothing there to be discovered. Most of the heats of formation of the listed reactants have been compiled back in the 1950’s and have not been updated. The margins of error in many thermodynamic evaluations are often large. Once the Rowan/Blacklight researchers recalibrate for corrected heats of formation, the excess energy ratio is approaching 1:1.
The focus has been on halides: Chlorine, Bromine, and - notoriously - Iodine. Iodine has a strong tendency to produce polyiodide ions: negative and even positive ions composed of several iodine atoms. To a lesser extent, Chlorine and Bromine produce similar polyions. Fluorine, by its small size, behaves quite differently than the other halogens.
Second, on the plasma/emission front. The main failure of Mr Mills’ hydrino model is that the model is a free space model and all experiments by Rowan/Blacklight depends on “hydrino” interacting with other matter. Rowan/Blacklight always talk about catalysis. The simplest and most straightforward experiment is to “lase” some hydrogen gas with UV light at 26 ev. This experiment (and variants) have been done and failed. LASER is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission Radiation. Your common variety of hydrogen plasma gas is - according to the hydrino theory - in a perfect population inversion. Just radiate the hydrogen plasma gas with EUV (>=26 ev) and the outgoing radiation should be of greater intensity than the incoming radiation. BIG FAIL!
Now, one may say that the “hydrino” states are of spherical (s) symmetry and the conventional ground state of hydrogen is also of s symmetry and thus the lasing process is symmetry forbidden. NO PROBLEM! Just optically pump the hydrogen plasma gas to the 2p state (p symmetry) and then lase the pumped plasma with EUV radiation of the appropriate frequency. Again, this experiment has been done: BIG FAIL! Synchroton/Cyclotron produce radiation at all intensities and frequencies.
Let us return to Blacklight’s latest publication on their plasma experiments. They pass a beam of hydrogen (and separately helium less than a millimicron above a grated surface and check the outgoing radiation. Per authors, the radiation in the EUV region is characterized as a “continuum”, not “discrete” and therein lies the failure of the experiment. For - according to Mr Mills - the hydrino states are well defined and thus the outgoing radiation should show discrete peaks. The continuum aspect of the radiation indicates that the transition happen from an excited metastable state (key word: metastable) to the convention ground state. The grated surface is a surface in which narrow grooves were carved in: metastable - and excited - hydrogen gas is produced when the gas atoms is well inside these grooves. Upon exiting the grooves, the metastable radiate EUV into the free space and return back to the convention ground state hydrogen atoms.
Looking at the graphs of the Blacklight publication, the helium experiment shows some peaks in the EUV region but they are faint. The same faint peaks show up with the hydrogen experiment: these peaks are characteristic to the grating surface. The helium experiments show little continuum radiation in the EUV region and this is no proof - direct or indirect - of hydrinos. The continuum radiation is essentially a resonance phenomenon (with respect to the geometry of the grated surface).Helium, having a mass 4 times that of of hydrino would produce the same type of continuum radiation at about 1/2 the frequency.
BlackLight cannot see the forest for the trees. It is so focused on the EUV region and did not look at all radiation ranges.
From the tone and phrasing, KevMo is just Mark Goldes (Marketing Officer at Chava Energy) who has been a busy camper on the blogosphere, putting the same inane comments elsewhere. Busy setting up websites like the dead www.energyblogs.com.
***Never heard of Mark Goldes. Why does everything have to have a conspiratorial tone? Maybe Kevmo is just Kevmo, and Mark Goldes is Mark Goldes. Occham’s razor can do wonders in simple situations.
First, on the chemical front. Looking at the hydride/hydrino experiments at Rowan and at Blacklight in the past 5 years, the excess energy ratio has decreased from 20:1, 10:1, 5:1, and now 3:1.
***That’s good info, something I have not noticed.
The trend is approaching 1:1 and there is nothing there to be discovered.
***Maybe so, maybe not. But my position is that the cold fusioneers have generated thousands of Megajoules at pennies per Joule while the hot fusioneers have produced tens of Megajoules at $10k/Joule, or so. The trend is approaching diminishing returns for hot fusioneers, and there is nothing there to be discovered.
Most of the heats of formation of the listed reactants have been compiled back in the 1950’s and have not been updated. The margins of error in many thermodynamic evaluations are often large. Once the Rowan/Blacklight researchers recalibrate for corrected heats of formation, the excess energy ratio is approaching 1:1.
***Fascinating. And it sounds well informed. Perhaps you have an article or two we could puruse?
The focus has been on halides: Chlorine, Bromine, and - notoriously - Iodine. Iodine has a strong tendency to produce polyiodide ions: negative and even positive ions composed of several iodine atoms. To a lesser extent, Chlorine and Bromine produce similar polyions. Fluorine, by its small size, behaves quite differently than the other halogens.
***As far as I can tell, the focus for cold fusioneers (of which I include the blacklight slicksters) is on Deuterium.
Second, on the plasma/emission front.
***As soon as the argument comes round to plasma, I lose tracking. It’s too mysterious for the average layman following this phenomenon.
The main failure of Mr Mills’ hydrino model is that the model is a free space model and all experiments by Rowan/Blacklight depends on “hydrino” interacting with other matter.
***What is wrong with that?
Interactions of charged particles on surfaces
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LawandyNMinteractio.pdf
Nabil M. Lawandya
Department of Physics and Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence,
Rhode Island 02903, USA
Received 5 October 2009; accepted 11 November 2009; published online 7 December 2009
Charges of the same polarity bound to a surface with a large dielectric contrast exhibit an attractive
long-range Coulomb interaction, which leads to a two-particle bound state. Ensembles of like
charges experience a collective long-range interaction, which results in compacted structures with
interparticle separations that can be orders of magnitude smaller than the equilibrium separation of
the pair potential minimum. Simulations indicate that ensembles of surface bound nuclei, such as D
or T, exhibit separations small enough to result in significant rates of fusion. © 2009 American
Institute of Physics. doi:10.1063/1.3270537
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Rowan/Blacklight always talk about catalysis. The simplest and most straightforward experiment is to “lase” some hydrogen gas with UV light at 26 ev. This experiment (and variants) have been done and failed.
***Nonsense
Hagelsteinprogresson.pdf
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Hagelsteinprogresson.pdf
06/08/2010
Hagelstein, P.L., D. Letts, and D. Cravens. Progress on two-laser experiments (PowerPoint slides). in 15th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science. 2009. Rome, Italy: ENEA.
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11/26/2008
Tian, J., et al. Excess Heat Triggering by 532nm Laser in a D/Pd Gas-Loading System. in ICCF-14 International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science. 2008. Washington, DC.
LASER is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission Radiation. Your common variety of hydrogen plasma gas is - according to the hydrino theory - in a perfect population inversion. Just radiate the hydrogen plasma gas with EUV (>=26 ev) and the outgoing radiation should be of greater intensity than the incoming radiation. BIG FAIL!
***It appears that Professor Ch. E. Stremmenos begs to differ:
http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=338
Now, one may say that the “hydrino” states are of spherical (s) symmetry and the conventional ground state of hydrogen is also of s symmetry and thus the lasing process is symmetry forbidden. NO PROBLEM! Just optically pump the hydrogen plasma gas to the 2p state (p symmetry) and then lase the pumped plasma with EUV radiation of the appropriate frequency. Again, this experiment has been done: BIG FAIL! Synchroton/Cyclotron produce radiation at all intensities and frequencies.
***At this point, you have gone past my ability to understand. If you’re so right, then publish a paper on it and send it to Dr. Mills’s investors.
Let us return to Blacklight’s latest publication on their plasma experiments. They pass a beam of hydrogen (and separately helium less than a millimicron above a grated surface and check the outgoing radiation. Per authors, the radiation in the EUV region is characterized as a “continuum”, not “discrete” and therein lies the failure of the experiment. For - according to Mr Mills - the hydrino states are well defined and thus the outgoing radiation should show discrete peaks. The continuum aspect of the radiation indicates that the transition happen from an excited metastable state (key word: metastable) to the convention ground state. The grated surface is a surface in which narrow grooves were carved in: metastable - and excited - hydrogen gas is produced when the gas atoms is well inside these grooves. Upon exiting the grooves, the metastable radiate EUV into the free space and return back to the convention ground state hydrogen atoms.
***See my previous post. While you’re at it, please explain the excess heat being produced on Cold Fusion experiments. Excess Heat. - This is a complete copy of the book: Beaudette, CG ...File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
Beaudette, C.G., Excess Heat: Why Cold Fusion Research Prevailed. 2002, Concord, NH: Oak. Grove Press. LENR-CANR would like to thank the author, ...
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