Jones, I believe you have a misconception about what the hotCat is. In the hotCat, both the metal hydride and Rossi's magic nickel powder are encased entirely in stainless steel. I am near 100% certain he does this by using 2 concentric stainless tubes machined with an interior space for his ingredients. Then ends of the stainless steel tubing are then cold welded together and the result looks like just a stainless pipe that is empty. When he added the "Mouse", he then put something (probably his original eCat recipe) inside the composite pipe and he stoppered the ends closed. This can be clearly seen in the Penon report. I have diagrams of this, and I have put them in my public folder on my Google drive at:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5Pc25a4cOM2ZjRKUmZUZlRXNzA&usp=sharing Nowhere in this does the active LENR powder components get exposed to SiC. The ceramic coil form wrapped around the stainless pipe is just a resistor coil form like any wire-wound resistor you buy off the shelf. These outer things are only resistive heaters that are outside the stainless pipe. Speculation about SiC being involved would need separate evidence from what is inside the stainless assembly, because any SiC potentially in the resistive heaters does not participate in the LENR reaction as anything but a resistive heater. Bob On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > One clarification about the conclusion of the Zhao paper: > > This is why the HotCat is using SiC. It serves the same function as sodium > In sodium vapor street lighting. > > http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/9903031.pdf > > END > >
