LENR – THE
EXPERIMENTAL SPACE
CHARTING THE NICKEL-LITHIUM-HYDROGEN WORKSPACE
ALAN SMITH – MAY 2016
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SYSTEM VARIABLES
A. REACTOR PARAMETERS
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Material/Shape
Free Space
Fuel containment.
Internal Gas Mix
Internal Pressure Profile
Heater coil geometry
Internal EM Fields
Internal RF Fields
Internal E-Fields
Insulation/Shielding etc
Things to avoid
B. FUEL & PRE-TREATMENT
1.Nickel Type and %
2. Ni Pre-treatment
3. Nano- Li %
4. LiAlH4-%
5. Free Hydrogen
6. Other (Milling etc.)
7. Use of getters, Zi etc.
8. Packed vs. Loose fuel.
9. Other fuels –Ti, W etc.
10. Things to avoid
C. HEAT AND POWER
1. Heater Power supply type
2. Frequency/polarity modulation
3. Temperature profiles
4. Intra-reactor triggers ?HT etc.
5. Things to avoid.
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THE EXPERIMENTAL SPACE.
As can be seen on the previous slide, we have a huge number of variables to consider, those
described (excluding the broad categories ‘things to avoid’) is 10x9x4 = 360. And these are
what might be called ‘gross variables’, because within each described heading there are more
variables in turn. For example, precisely what pre-treatment of Ni powder (if any) or which
of the many potential reactor heating profiles should we employ?
Taking these factors into account expands the space by a factor of at least 10, thus giving us a
staggering 3.600 experiments with no clear guarantees of success – for the key variable might
still elude us.
Thus it becomes obvious that without the luxury of a big team, a dedicated workspace and large
budget -the nuclear physics equivalent an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters – the
successful creation of a working LENR system - involves attempting to minimise the unknowns
by careful study of the available patents and papers to create a practical and logical series of
experiments where only one parameter is varied each time. Careful record keeping and data
Logging thus becomes a ‘must do’.
Alan Smith. May 2016.
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