I recommend giving his patent application another read, should you have the
time. I like that his reactions are both fission and fusion simultaneously -
talk about multi-tasking!:
[0069] In particular, said graphs clearly show that zinc is formed,
whereas zinc was not present in the nickel powder originally loaded into the
apparatus said zinc being actually generated by a fusion of a nickel atom and
two hydrogen atoms.
[0070] This demonstrates that, in addition to fusion, the inventive
reaction also provides a nickel nucleus fission phenomenon generating lighter
stable atoms.
[0071] Moreover, it has been found that, after having generated energy the
used powders contained both copper and lighter than nickel atoms (such as
sulphur, chlorine, potassium, calcium).
[0072] This demonstrate that, in addition to fusion, also a nickel nucleus
fission phenomenon generating lighter stable atoms occurs.
The photo of the Rossi's nano-nickel is great, though. It's an opportunity to
look at grain size and geometry:
It appears that the grains vary from 5-15 um (1,000-3,000 beard-seconds).
He'd mentioned that they were more on the um scale than the nm scale, which
jives with the supplied evidence.
As for his claim of surface tubercles contributing to the reaction, the
photographed grains do indeed look "bumpy" and not uniformly smooth.
A picture is indeed worth a thousand words... well, 56 words if you are
succinct.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=84vwAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA3&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
