Universal LENR Reactor – Fuel Preparation
| September 12, 2012 | Posted by admin under Dale Basgall, Universal LENR Reactor |
Dale Basgall has released a new presentation on the mechanical aspects of preparing the fuel for the Universal LENR Reactor design. Mr. Basgall explains his review of the conditions needed for successful LENR fuel and also a proposed process for making the fuel using ISOTAN44. He considers this to be “1/3rd of the LENR process.” Mr. Basgall relies on information provided by Edmund Storms, Dennis Bushnell, Joseph Zawodny, and Francesco Celani.
OK, I’ll bite…. Why gold coated and why does it need to be of triangular form? Basically why would that make any positive difference?
Adding gold coating is the antithesis of trying to find a cheap fuel, and Celani has been doing fine using round wires – also seems that round that would give more opportunity for consistent processing and for the hydrogen to get in around the wires.
On top of which I don’t think that you want large thick tightly bound prismatic bundles of fuel in a reactor if there is a positive temperature coefficient to the reaction. You instead want thin layers with good cooling everywhere to prevent run-way hot spots from forming, or perhaps powder in a fluidised bed where the powder rapidly convects.
RobL: I dont’ know for sure that the gold or the triangle shaped wire would make any difference at all in the LENR reactions.
After reading the Celani experiments using the ISOTAN wire from the mechanical view I felt he was on a path to commercialization by the logic using the ISOTAN wire.
The process to create the fissures or cracks in the wire he disclosed was causing the wire to become more brittle. Subsequent that the Storms video came out and he described his process in an understandable way in my opinion. He described the cracks and fissures and I have seen those before after using nickel and chrome powder in a special torch to fix damaged hydraulic rods.
Since many claims of photon exchanges in the LENR process I thought of how reflective gold was and when I checked it out the melting point was just a few degrees under the nickel and it is soft compared to most metals. When the hot metal droplets hit the cold nickel only a small point will stick to the base wire and when the rollers smash those little cold balls of soft metal the fissures are formed on the outside of the base wire allowing it to keep it’s tensil strength. The triangle shape was the simplest way to grip the wire without damaging the outer fissure flakes. That shape can be gripped easily as it is rotated to form sharp spiral edges which dipoles like to exert fields from.
In the Celani experiments I saw that the wires had insulation and were lose so I knew for a commercial product there could be no lose wires so to speak I designed a way to hold the wires at a specific tension apart from one another using eight fuel rods. Thus also eliminating the possibility of cell contamination due to fiber insulation.
Also using macro scale logic the Storm predictions, the Celani experiments and the others working with LENR explain many delta exchanges for the electron capture. Many statements of resonance so I figured no limitations let’s acoustically vibrate the wire and possibly a resonance will stimulate an event LENR.
This is highly speculative however we are attempting to make something like the physicist theory, a base to start standardization through using commercially available fuel wire. So if we have known facts like Storms and Celani offer, and those known facts are reduced to a standard mechanical form so everyone can use, then we have something to compare.
Thank you RobL for showing interest in the LENR fuel and keep picking things apart because that’s the only way we can help LENR develop, “things are logically deduced by knowing what doesn’t work as well as establishing the cause that makes it work”.
Round wire is more difficult to focus angles at projected targets. The hydrogen finds the fissures, while loading and unloading and I deduced it may stimulate a LENR reaction to hold the wires taught and vibrating.
It does not appear to matter if the wires/material is brittle because it does not need to conduct electricity to work. Celani’s demo worked fine with indirect heating, though it limited the temperature that he could get the wire to due to his reactor’s temperature limitations. Rossi claims to operate with a micrometer scale powder (if he can be believed). And as far as I know so do Defkalion, Ahern, Miley, Arata, Piantelli etc. Most researchers in fact seem to do just fine without conducting electricity through the material at all.
I think it is quite possible that Celani has a better production process than Rossi (as he is a lot more scientific and rigorous about how he does things).
Celani’s preparation process seems to involve repeated rapid oxidation in air to produce (if I recall correctly) slightly selective oxidation of the copper over the nickel then reduction of oxides formed using hydrogen at high temp. Though there may have been other chemical steps involved too.
If I were doing replication work then I would be trying to mimic Celani’s approach as much as possible – at least until I got something working, though lacking the need to replicate his conductivity measurements and preferring higher power outputs to make testing and calorimetry less demanding I might just work with bulk nickel-copper alloy powder (lots of sources for Cu-Ni in powder form, as it is a common metal coating) or perhaps get the exact same Isotan 44 alloy, oxidise it completely in a kiln and then ball mill to a powder and and reduce it using hydrogen.
As wide open as this field is it is more productive to try 100 quick and dirty approaches than 1 super-careful expensive and time consuming speculative preparation effort. That is how effective R&D is done in a field without good predictive theoretical understanding (eg Edison and the lightbulb filament experiments, early aircraft, ). No one knows where the next break through will come from.
RobL: After working for several months on designs that were generated from claimed observations and experiments from the experimenters of LENR, I found several things as many others have found also that are and were preventing others from just bulding their own reactor for LENR, like what Mr. Rossi exhibited in the first horizontal reactor demonstration a year and some months ago.
After watching this inventor (Rossi) and his claims I was humiliated by actions that are not becoming of either a good CEO or a good Inventor. After you have written several patents through years of work and were issued valid patents by the USPTO it becomes clear most people telling you they are inventors, don’t understand that the success depends on your ability to write paperwork and communicate precisely to others in a humble way, it’s an endless process of communication to others and Zawodny is a good example of a good communicator, so is Cealni and Storms.
When others claiming things that they contrive in machinery and exhibit in a way that Mr. Rossi or Defkalion has done, makes being called an inventor an real put down. That’s why most everyone knows me as regular mechanic, when these types of people that simply tell others misleading things and do not produce, are only going to cost time and money and anguish in others, “bad energy output” and we don’t need more of this going on.
So after starting any invention product on the paperwork end, it should take no more than a year to develop into an engineered product, especially something so simple as a reactor, like building a coffee pot with a computer. Not much rocket science going on there.
So when two teams joined last Jamuary 2012 forming a five group, there was full blown testing and experimenting planned out and a timeline to produce. Now the mechanic side of me wanted to get er done and write a patent application on a product.
The problem was no one had a standardized method that allows a person to get going and do something. A couple physicist that are brilliant, a couple mechanics, lawyer and a good patent attorney and wow I thought I had better get a reactor designed or we would be left in the dust by others working on a commercial product using LENR fuel and theory.
Reality set in after months with no certain committments until Celani published his experiments and Storms relayed his work in a video. I grabbed onto the wire concept and designed a holder for them that you could adjust the rod tension on. I sat there at the drawing screen and said to myself that; “if I had my reactor going I would like my fuel rods to have these features”, so I let my mind drift, as the drawings you saw were produced from that time in drifting with variables.
I applied some things I have learned from oscillating things in resonance as well as physical vibrations while attempting to make wind chime tubes sound more harmonic.
My driving factor is to promote a standardized experimentation process so anyone wanting to get involved or designing a product in this LENR field can, and hopefully many others could be developing the field into a commercial reality sooner than later.