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			<title>Robert Greenyer says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-2957</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As suggested before, I would try KOH solution (in distilled water) to deposit on a carrier and dried, one person has suggested aluminium powder. Depositing on a carrier means not filling up features on you nickel nano powder. I would also suggest Fiber Free Potassium Titanate (much less harmful if airborne) available here http://tamceramics.com/products/titanates/fiber-free-potassium-titanate Both of these have the K40 decay potential for ionising H in situ but Potassium Titanate has the melting point of 1150ºC which is well above expected upper trigger range. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium-40 When this was suggested to Celani he said go for it both for his wires and for Nano powders, he said "Anyway, the K_40 has beta- (1311 keV), beta+ and EC (1505 keV) and the "famous" gamma ray at 1460.8keV.". He then went on to say effectively that they were thinking along a similar route themselves in wire preparation... he wrote "in our "old" chemical treatments (over Pd and Ni wires) we added also several layers (usually 50) of Th(NO3)4 liquid salts. Among others we selected Th_232 because its energetic (4.081 MeV) alfa emission and low energy gamma (59 and 124keV). Both acting at short range, specially alfa." SO... if Thorium has potential, how about nano particles of Thorium dioxide - this compound has the highest known melting point of any oxide (3390ºC), over twice the melting point of Nickel meaning it could serve as some sort of stable thermal sink/spreader for localised hot spots in a mix. http://www.americanelements.com/thoxnp.html Someone just needs to do the potential chemical interaction studies. I think both are worth pursuing. Gamma rays are always ionising and whilst the potassium has a lower emission rate, its gamma is far more energetic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionizing_radiation I can understand why Celani went for thorium, the increased activity per mass was appropriate for very thin wire coatings and the beta emmission. Also, thorium in welding rods in Mizuno and Thorium source in "PAP engine" all point to its potential. But maybe the beta+ and beta- (positron and electron respectively) in combination with the high energy gamma have more potential when you can have a relatively large mass in powder form. The ionising power of beta particles is 1/100 of that of alpha and about 100 times that of gamma. Their penetrating power( or the distance traveled inside the medium) is inversely proportional to the ionising power. Food for thought. Aluminium is a good absorber of beta emissions. Problem is, it has a melting point of 660.3ºC Any ideas?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Robert Greenyer</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 06:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Wes Baish says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-2951</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@Edwin Pell we have a phenanthrene liquid test in the works, and could possibly try the RF or high voltage macropulse triggering with another reactor of pure Ni and complete passthrough. Otherwise the options are open right now and subject to suggestion and discussion.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Wes Baish</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 20:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Edwin Pell says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-2947</link>
			<description><![CDATA[What are the four experiments you are going to be doing?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Edwin Pell</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 18:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Robert Greenyer says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-2938</link>
			<description><![CDATA[That is a good idea Ecco. You could try the free virtual box from oracle which is open source and runs on windows, mac, linux and solaris. This means you can use a PC, to run 1 Linux current version of the setup and also another Linux instance on test, when the test version works, swap the boot file. https://www.virtualbox.org/]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Robert Greenyer</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 08:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Ecco says:</title>
			<link>http://www.quantumheat.org#comment-2936</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ To save resources, you could use a virtual machine on an existing PC.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ecco</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 23:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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