[NewCandle] further adventures of pixie 23

[Keith Nagel]

HI Nick,

Things are finally stabilizing here, perhaps this winter will find
me doing some more serious research in between cooking up the next
software release.

As regards your pixie. It should come as no surprise that the
rolls are hot. You must be displacing U from the solution, as
we anticipated. I suspect that is not a stable condition, and
the amount of U in solution vs U plated is in a dynamic relation.
If the temperature is changing, the displacement reaction will
either increase or decrease ( hot or cold respectively ). Late
evening reading would have occurred over the heat of the day,
so should be larger than morning reading. If the diurnal variation
is continuing, draw out a foil roll at each time, and see if
the roll itself is hotter at the evening point.

Also, look at the bottom of the solution tank. Displaced U may be collecting
there after being shed from the Al foil.

K.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:newcandle-bounces at ipdiscover.com]On Behalf Of Nick Reiter
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 4:41 PM
To: New energy for the new world.
Subject: [NewCandle] further adventures of pixie 23


Hello all,

A bit of an update for this evening, on the last aluminum roll hydrolysis
reactor, "Pixie 23".

As you might recall, this is the version in which the hydrolyzing salt
solution consists of ~.12M uranyl acetate in H2O, with .03% D2O added...

When I last reported, the primary puzzler was the interesting rise in count
rate as seen by a fixed GM tube, when the U solution wicked into the roll
turns when the rolls were placed into the bucket.  The emission from the
bucket rose from about 300CPM to about 600CPM.

Over the two andf a half weeks that have followed, the foil rolls began to
eventually generate H2 gas and before the thick bubbling began to drop off,
we hydrolyzed maybe around 1.25l of water.  During the time of gas
evolution, the emission count rate read by the Geiger counter would
fluctuate, sometimes taking on what may be a diurnal patter, ranging between
450 cpm to 600cpm, with late evening readings being higher in most cases
than morning readings.

Over the time, as bubbling dropped off, so did the overall count rate, until
at about T+10 days or so, we were back down to almost the starting cpm
BEFORE the foil rolls were added - 250 to 300cpm.

Yesterday evening, as things really seem to be pretty quiescent now, I
carefully lifted out the foil rolls, allowing them to drip dry on a "safe
cloth".  The background emission from the solution in the bucket remained at
about 300cpm.  That being established, though, I slid the bucket out of the
way, and brought one of the rolls (side) up to the GM head.  Very strangely,
the rolls were "hot".  At about 4cm distance from a roll side, we see
between 1000 and 1500 cpm!  One by one, I placed the rolls back into the
liquid bucket, and repositioned all.  Back to 300cpm...

somewhere in all of this there is a mechanism - anomalous or not.  But to me
its giving some brainhurt for now.

Any thought aspirin out there?

nr





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