Well I'll go with Han's faster areaction and higher energy output in a given (read short) time.
Hans and I are not in disagreement at all. It's not higher energy total, but more energy per time unit. That's "power", as I already explained to you. It is LESS energy total. How come? Because the reaction goes faster - it is over after a much shorter time.
That was how I understood it anyway.
It is as clear as day that you understand it incorrectly...
It makes nanothermite the perfect candidate for my hypothesis.
...which is why your conclusions are stupid. The opposite is more true.
Given that unreacted nanothermite has been found in the WTC dust
No, it hasn't.
and confirmed by an 8-man team
These 8 men are the original authors of that nonsense, not the confirmation.
Only 3 of them are PhD's, iirc. Ryan and Roberts only have Bachelor's degrees, Legge and larsen a Master's, and Farnsworth was a student still.
Of course, their title, or lack thereof, does not mean that that the work is any good or bad. Far more relevant to look at their respective fields of expertise:
- Harrit comes close; a chemist with some work in nano-tech, yet failed to identify one of the simplest and most common minerals: hematite (Fe2O3 - "rust" comes close, in layman's speak)
- Farrer doesn't know chemistry. He once proudly shared how he had never worked with a DSC before
- Jones is a nuclear physicist. Irrelevant
- Ryan has tested water for a living
- Legge has a Diploma in Agriculture. Lol.
- Farnsworth studies physics.
- Roberts is a business analyst with a background in psychology. Lol
- Gourley I have no idea what he does. His credentials in the paper are given as "International Center for 9/11 Studies, Dallas" ROFL.
- Larsen is a mineralogist. That is not a bad field, yet he too failed to introdice the word "hematite" into the paper.
They started that thing wanting desperately to find thermite. They could have sent the samples to a good lab, pay them 800 dollars instead of Bentham vanity publishers, and gotten definite results in two weeks.
resulting in an uncontested
the paper is so bad that even I can contest it. It's simply irrelevant in the world of science. Published at an irrelevant vanity journal, with too many obvious-to-spot errors.
No proper peer-review process at Bentham. The editor in chief testified to that in the strongest and most honest form possible: She resigned precisely because the paper was published without proper peer-review.
I think I'm home and dry on this aspect.
Every aspect you mention is a FAIL.
Mr.Hans
' The larger surface contact between the ingredients makes for a faster reaction and hence higher energy output in a given time, not much else. '
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"In a given time" qualifies "higher energy output". It doesn't mean that you get more energy to work with. Only more power, but that isn't important when melting steel is all you desire. Much more significant is the fact that you get LESS energy output. Which Hans will agree with.