MOTTO
We adore chaos because we love to produce order. (M. C. Escher)
Read this collection of quotes re CHAOS in Science and vice-versa
http://todayinsci.com/QuotationsCategories/C_Cat/Chaos-Quotations.htm
The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. -Ogden Nash, (from A WORD A DAY http://www.wordsmith.org of today, I give it as Motto supplement.
Dear Friends,
Please read what Rossi, E-CatWorld and here-AXIL says about E-Cat X, the hottest E-Cat working above the melting temperature of nickel. Something very new and complex and chaotic: Rossi cannot give details but he has told about the existence of a possibly new branch of LENR. This time I understand his reasons. What I does not understand is how it is possible that no real competition for Rossi exists now.
Anyway the situation of the very hot E-cat is a mystery and chaos- but it is not the case to bring it under control- not possible and not useful. Very important discoveries can be made and later these can be explained and extended.
Obviously Rossi is causing problems, he does not give us certainties even not IP related, things are going very slow, many people and not all trolls do not believe him
and tell me that I am in deep error and a sinner against Science, honest Science, writing about what he says he does.
BUT imagine LENR without Rossi. Wet PdD remains dominant, Francesco Piantelli's NiH is heavily oppressed. Interesting things but applications are toooo far. No scale-up, no technology.
January 14, 2011 nothing happens and I start writing a course of Management of Technology for Romanian managers and earn money from translations. I am reading what happens in LENR but it is indistinguishable from hopeless, incremental and stagnant- LENR is a sad, unsmiling, slowly forgotten world. I have promised to Arthur C.Clarke that cold fusion will be a technology but I do not keep my promise.
DAILY NEWS
1) UPTODATED The new hot Cat a real revolution very very very good! http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/08/18/rossi-new-hot-cat-a-real-revolution-very-very-very-good/
Andrea Rossi
August 18th, 2015 at 5:43 PM
Curiosone:
Update at 07.40 p.m. of Tuesday August 18.
E-Cat 1 MW: downloaded to 750 kW of power for reparation of a reactor. Another working night looms up.
E-Cat X: burnt, but we have understood well where is the problem, so we are making another one that very likely will be very reliable. I hope.
From inside the plant,
Warm Regards,
A.R.
2) Corrections to the program and the abstracts to the All-Russian Conference for Cold Nuclear Transmutations and Ball Lightnings -22 taking Place in Dagomys from Sep 27 to October 4
3) HOW TO: CHEAT NUCLEAR FUSION
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-cheat-nuclear-fusion
... as far as the power of your imagination and motivation by Denis Waitley
1) UPTODATED The new hot Cat a real revolution very very very good! http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/08/18/rossi-new-hot-cat-a-real-revolution-very-very-very-good/
Andrea Rossi
August 18th, 2015 at 5:43 PM
Curiosone:
Update at 07.40 p.m. of Tuesday August 18.
E-Cat 1 MW: downloaded to 750 kW of power for reparation of a reactor. Another working night looms up.
E-Cat X: burnt, but we have understood well where is the problem, so we are making another one that very likely will be very reliable. I hope.
From inside the plant,
Warm Regards,
A.R.
2) Corrections to the program and the abstracts to the All-Russian Conference for Cold Nuclear Transmutations and Ball Lightnings -22 taking Place in Dagomys from Sep 27 to October 4
Скорректирована программа и тезисы РКХТЯиШМ-22, которая состоится в Дагомысе с 27.09 по 04.10.2015
As far I see no essential changes in the 35 abstracts3) HOW TO: CHEAT NUCLEAR FUSION
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-cheat-nuclear-fusion
AXIL DIXIT
Over on the Rossi blog site, there has recently been a ton of questions asking Rossi what the E-Cat-X is all about. Rossi is silent on that issue. He is very protective about his new collections of IP secrets. And yet, he gave the Lugano crew the Hot cat to play with for a month. To completely give the Lugano testers all his treasured and hard won IP secrets is completely out of character. Rossi must have thought that the Hot Cat was a dead end. Try as he might, Rossi could not get the Hot cat to work, and he gave up on it. He never intended to give anybody the opportunity and the Know-how to replicate any of his work. Does a leopard change its spots? But when Rossi read the Lugano report, he saw something he liked very much, it was something he did not see in all his own extensive Hot cat experiments. He was very surprised, and he took advantage of this very good luck as he has always done. Those new insights that he gleaned from the Lugano report gave him inspiration to invent the E-Cat-X. The tantalizing question that we are faced with: what insight did Rossi get from the Lugano report.
Maybe Rossi gave up on the Hot Cat because, try as he might, he could not get the Hot Cat to work well, So he intended to throw his competitors a curve by showing them a failed test. He used an old fuel load from one of his failed Hot cat tests knowing full well that the Hot Cat would not work to any great extent. But to his surprise, the Lugano crew got the reactor to work anyway beyond all his wildest expectations.
The previously used fuel loaded in the Lugano test showed no build up of Ni62, just run of the mill nickel isotopes, but the Lugano run changed the nickel powder into pure Ni62. We know that Rossi was very surprised by this strange turn of events. Rossi must have thought to himself, what could have caused that miracle? How come I could not do this thing and those Lugano testers could?
Because they did not want to melt the hot cat down, the Lugano crew let the Hot cat heat for 10 days before they decided to up the temperature. In those first 10 days the Hot cat was a poor performer. Rossi never had the patience to run the Hot cat for so long, he did not have the patience to run such a non productive test for that long. But after those 10 days of gestation, the Lugano crew increased the power and the heat and the Rossi reaction took off.
The power produced by the reactor showed a COP of 7 when the power was increased. Something must have been building up over those 10 days of moderate heat. LENR has always had a history of running for a long time before the reaction sets in. The Palladium guys thought ot was caused by loading hydrogen into palladium, but that was not the case.
Nano-particles were being created slowly until their numbers reached a critical threshold for the reactor to take off. Without those large 100 micron nickel particles, the nano particle aggregation must be grown large enough to get the power of the reaction over a critical level. That correct level is when the aggregation is big enough to establish a positive feedback loop with the nuclear fusion reactions catalyzed by the aggregation.
Rossi said to himself, I can just add some of my potassium catalyst to the lithium aluminum hydride to get the nano particles to form faster. 10 days is far to long to wait to start up the Hot cat. Then I could turn on the lithium powder very fast, and I do not need the nickel anymore.
OTHER
Scientists achieve major breakthrough in thin-film magnetism
Over on the Rossi blog site, there has recently been a ton of questions asking Rossi what the E-Cat-X is all about. Rossi is silent on that issue. He is very protective about his new collections of IP secrets. And yet, he gave the Lugano crew the Hot cat to play with for a month. To completely give the Lugano testers all his treasured and hard won IP secrets is completely out of character. Rossi must have thought that the Hot Cat was a dead end. Try as he might, Rossi could not get the Hot cat to work, and he gave up on it. He never intended to give anybody the opportunity and the Know-how to replicate any of his work. Does a leopard change its spots? But when Rossi read the Lugano report, he saw something he liked very much, it was something he did not see in all his own extensive Hot cat experiments. He was very surprised, and he took advantage of this very good luck as he has always done. Those new insights that he gleaned from the Lugano report gave him inspiration to invent the E-Cat-X. The tantalizing question that we are faced with: what insight did Rossi get from the Lugano report.
Maybe Rossi gave up on the Hot Cat because, try as he might, he could not get the Hot Cat to work well, So he intended to throw his competitors a curve by showing them a failed test. He used an old fuel load from one of his failed Hot cat tests knowing full well that the Hot Cat would not work to any great extent. But to his surprise, the Lugano crew got the reactor to work anyway beyond all his wildest expectations.
The previously used fuel loaded in the Lugano test showed no build up of Ni62, just run of the mill nickel isotopes, but the Lugano run changed the nickel powder into pure Ni62. We know that Rossi was very surprised by this strange turn of events. Rossi must have thought to himself, what could have caused that miracle? How come I could not do this thing and those Lugano testers could?
Because they did not want to melt the hot cat down, the Lugano crew let the Hot cat heat for 10 days before they decided to up the temperature. In those first 10 days the Hot cat was a poor performer. Rossi never had the patience to run the Hot cat for so long, he did not have the patience to run such a non productive test for that long. But after those 10 days of gestation, the Lugano crew increased the power and the heat and the Rossi reaction took off.
The power produced by the reactor showed a COP of 7 when the power was increased. Something must have been building up over those 10 days of moderate heat. LENR has always had a history of running for a long time before the reaction sets in. The Palladium guys thought ot was caused by loading hydrogen into palladium, but that was not the case.
Nano-particles were being created slowly until their numbers reached a critical threshold for the reactor to take off. Without those large 100 micron nickel particles, the nano particle aggregation must be grown large enough to get the power of the reaction over a critical level. That correct level is when the aggregation is big enough to establish a positive feedback loop with the nuclear fusion reactions catalyzed by the aggregation.
Rossi said to himself, I can just add some of my potassium catalyst to the lithium aluminum hydride to get the nano particles to form faster. 10 days is far to long to wait to start up the Hot cat. Then I could turn on the lithium powder very fast, and I do not need the nickel anymore.
OTHER
Scientists achieve major breakthrough in thin-film magnetism
A well thought and well written motivational story:
How Far Can Your Dreams Take You?... as far as the power of your imagination and motivation by Denis Waitley
New update
ReplyDeleteAndrea Rossi
August 18th, 2015 at 5:43 PM
Curiosone:
Update at 07.40 p.m. of Tuesday August 18.
E-Cat 1 MW: downloaded to 750 kW of power for reparation of a reactor. Another working night looms up.
E-Cat X: burnt, but we have understood well where is the problem, so we are making another one that very likely will be very reliable. I hope.
From inside the plant,
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Rossi might have found the method to control the E-Cat meltdown mechanism, The X-Cat might have destroyed the alumina tube by overheating. How hot can the X-Cat get anyway?
Rossi might want to try Yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) (Melting point 2,715 °C (4,919 °F; 2,988 K))
. This compound is a ceramic in which the crystal structure of zirconium dioxide is made stable at room temperature by an addition of yttrium oxide. These oxides are commonly called "zirconia" (ZrO2) and "yttria" (Y2O3), hence the name.
It is difficult to solve the heater material problem because most heater elements will oxidize at high temperatures. This is not true for YSZ. Rossi could heat the YSZ tube directly.
Electroceramics is a class of ceramic materials used primarily for their electrical properties. YSZ is an Electroceramic; it conducts electricity well as an fast ion conductor ceramic that has been used in historically for the glowing rods in Nernst lamps.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Nernst-lamp2.jpg/500px-Nernst-lamp2.jpg
The Nernst lamp was an early form of incandescent lamp. Nernst lamps did not use a glowing tungsten filament. Instead, they used a ceramic rod that was heated to incandescence. Because the rod (unlike tungsten wire) would not further oxidize when exposed to air, there was no need to enclose it within a vacuum or noble gas environment; the burners in Nernst lamps could operate exposed to the air and were only enclosed in glass to isolate the hot incandescent emitter from its environment. A ceramic of zirconium oxide - yttrium oxide was used as the glowing rod.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Nernst_lamp.jpg
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