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- From: ames!ACAD.FANDM.EDU!J_FARRELL
- Subject: Re: Fusion Digest 677
- Message-ID: <01GT71PSZTWI0001EO@ACAD.FANDM.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:45:52 GMT
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- DROEGE@fnald.fnal.gov writes
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- >Farrell says "I remind you that Droege was getting excess heat without the
- >recombiner." I was getting it with the recombiner too, John. See 2) above.
- >So can you explain the sequence? I will be the first to admit that my
- >experiments were not very good. But not quite rubbish. (I know you did not
- >call them rubbish, John.) At the time I figured it would have taken about six
- >months to do a good experiment. I could not see a reason to try.
- >
- >Tom Droege
-
- 1. I did not call your experiments rubbish. I did call your statement
- that "Mills was a moving target" rubbish. Mills was simply trying to help
- you with an experiment that he did not recommend.
-
- 2. I cannot explain your result (2). I'll add it to the list of things
- that I don't understand.
-
- For what it is worth, I recommend, once again, that you not use a
- recombiner. I cite the following reasons:
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- 1. The danger of explosion.
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- 2. It is harder to get the excess heat. Maybe it is contamination. Maybe
- it is H2 pressure. There may be other reasons. Mills has not spent much
- time or effort on recombiners.
-
- 3. If you get 50% excess heat with a recombiner you will be surprised that
- people will still not believe it. They will say that it is a chemical
- reaction, heat transfer problems, cosmic ray interactions, and god knows
- what all.
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- 4. The heat value of the recombination process is small compared to the
- excess heat that can be produced.
-
- The proposals (from the net and from private communications from net
- readers) for demonstration of this process are under consideration by
- HydroCatalysis Power Corporation and Thermacore. My guess is that it will
- not happen for a month or two. At which time, the demo will be so
- convincing that there will be no question of the energy producing potential
- of this process.
-
- A note to Dick Blue. Keep your dust bin handy.
-
- Best regards,
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- John Farrell
- Franklin & Marshall College
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