We don’t need fusion. Thorium will do the job nicely:
http://www.thoriumenergyalliance.com/ThoriumSite/portal.html
This is truly revolutionary. Please take a look at it.
As I sit here in the middle of the night babysitting a Westinghouse PWR at 100% power I have a good preliminary opinion of Thorium based on the link you provided. Sounds interesting.
The future? There are holes in the ground down the hill that are supposed to grow up to be TWO AP-1000's. They filled in another hole a couple of decades ago a stones throw from here that was supposed to be UNIT#2.
I posted this on another thread.
To: All; y’all; et al
The guys on the Thorium Energy website came up with a good candidate for the catalyst: Technetium (or just Thorium).
Grappling with Whether the E-CAT is a fraud
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2731436/posts
Tuesday, June 07, 2011 6:13:45 PM · by Kevmo · 99 replies
Energy from Thorium ^ | May-June 2011 | Various
http://energyfromthorium.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2783&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=105
Axil Post subject: Re: Cold Fusion againPosted: Mar 06, 2011 3:39 am
Joined: Aug 21, 2008 12:57 pm Posts: 1963 Going back to the assumption that the secret catalyst must be radioactive based of the reluctance to allow radiation analyzers to be used during the first demo of the Rossi reactor. And taking into account the interest Rossi had in waste to oil production using nickel catalysts, a new radioactive catalyst candidate has emerged.
Quote: Edmund Storms: Rossi hit upon this somewhat by accident. He was using a nickel catalyst to explore ways of making a fuel by combining hydrogen and carbon monoxide and apparently, observed quite by accident, that his [?????] was making extra energy. So then he explored it from that point of view and, apparently, over a year or two, amplified the effect.
He’s exploring the gas loading area of the field. This is also a region, a method used in the heavy water, or the heavy hydrogen, system. But in this case, it was light hydrogen, ordinary hydrogen and nickel and what happens is quite amazing.
You create the right conditions in the nickel, and he has a secret method for doing that, and all you do is add hydrogen to it and it makes huge amounts of energy based upon a nuclear reaction.”
The Case for Technetium-99
Technetium-99 decays almost entirely by beta decay (.294 MeV is about 10% of the speed of light), emitting beta particles with consistent electron energies and no accompanying gamma rays.
Moreover, its long half-life means that this emission decreases very slowly with time. It can also be extracted to a high chemical and isotopic purity from radioactive waste. It is a world class beta emitter which has been considered for nanoscale nuclear battery applications. In other words, Technetium produces fast (heavy) electrons in great abundance.
Like rhenium and palladium, technetium can serve as a catalyst. For some reactions, for example the dehydrogenation of isopropyl alcohol or saturated fats, it is a far more effective catalyst than either rhenium or palladium and is the top absorber of hydrogen among all the metals.
Its melting point is very high at 2200C and it can take the high heat in Rossi’s reactor.
Reaction of technetium with hydrogen produces the negatively charged hydride [TcH9] ion.
You can see that Technetium can absorb a huge load of hydrogen.
On another note, rare earths have some of the lowest work factors around. They are in the 2.5 range give or take.
It has been found that the radiation from Technetium lowers there work factors substantially. That means that these rare earth elements radiate electrons like crazy; that is, there thermionic electron emissions are very large.
When a combination of the rare earth oxides: europium oxide, ytterbium oxide and lutetium oxide are used in combination with Technetium their already low work functions compound on themselves reducing there combined work functions even further thereby generating large thermionic electron emissions at low temperatures. This work function reduction is somehow produced as a result of the radiation from Technetium.
This conjecture supports both the production of both vast amounts of high speed electrons and the absorption of loads of hydrogen; two key factors that must be optimized for LENR to occur.
This Technetium and rare earth admixture is now my leading contender for the Rossi secret catalyzer. It is also consistent with what the Rossi patent states.
2 posted on Monday, July 11, 2011 9:33:40 PM by Kevmo (Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all. ~Ronald Reagan)
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