Hi Axil: As usual, very interesting.. and way over my head.. Dimpling and bringing something up to the temperature of melting stainless steel is beyond my ability.. but hopefully others are listening and can try..
I'm not sure that powder coating the reactor wall is required to get transmutation. Exactly how much Ni powder is in a reactor is undisclosed, but in the presumably reviewed by Rossi paper http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=473 (30% of Ni transmutes to Cu) it says “One hundred grams of nickel powder can power a 10 kW unit for a minimum of six months”. How do you put 100 grams of Ni on the surface of the 50cm3 reactor wall? Maybe a rolled tube of material powder coated with Ni. For manufacturing purposes, some kind of mass-produced roll of material seems plausible.. but again, Rossi showed a sample of Nickel powder that had been used in a reaction... and I assume it wasn't scraped off the reactor. I don't expect I can get Rossi level results, but I would be thrilled if I or anyone could get a few measurable degrees difference, or some other type of confirmation that transmutation is occurring. For now, my pile of Ni powder in steel wool is all I can do.. but would be happy to accept any Ni samples that might have tubercles on them! As far as lithium and potassium catalysts, does that mean just raw K or Li or should I use KH or LiH? Or something else? Thanks for your insight. - Brad
