Revised from a prior posting: Naïve metaphorical approach to Rossi's claim of Ni-62 thermal gain: Imagine a number of strong springs subject to compressive loads. The strongest spring gives the fastest return to normal geometry following compression.
What is the limiting factor on how close to 100% return of energy is
available? Whatever that factor consists of, arguably makes the spring more
subject to catastrophic failure. This kind of logic explains why it is true
in Nature - that the nucleus with the highest binding strength of all is
found in low enrichment.
By all rights Ni-62 - which is the strongest "spring" in the period table,
should represent more than 3.6 percent of all nickel atoms, since it
possesses the highest bonding strength possible. But there are other factors
involved. Secondly - ductile metals like nickel, are tough because the atoms
are forced together by a "sea of electrons". The negative charge
agglomeration (electron glue) is subject to self-limiting Coulomb forces
from the nucleus. At the limit of electron cohesive strength, we may also
find a coupling to nuclear stability - and we may also find the beginning of
the next plateau of "friability" (to continue the metaphor). Ni-62 is
neutron heavy, and this has implications for the expression of nuclear
positive charge.
Thus Ni-62 having reached the pinnacle of nuclear strength among all
elements, could be in a slot where it can fail catastrophically via a
wave-function modality that is triggered by electron collapse. Too much
local charge, in effect.
This collapse affects adjacent protons in some way, even if the nickel
eigenstate cannot evolve net energy. This is a bosonic version of wave
function collapse resulting in a superposition of the different possible
eigenstates, which appears to reduce to a single state. With nickel, this
collapse will occasionally involve the 7th and 11th ionization potentials -
especially the 11th which is an almost perfect energy "hole" for ground
state (Rydberg) redundancy. The resulting photon is about 300 eV which will
not show up on any gamma detector, but gives hundreds of times more heat
than a chemical reaction.
Ni-62 is bosonic - an atomic and nuclear boson - and we must make the
adjacent protons appear bosonic, such as f/H or inverted Rydberg hydrogen -
so as to act as if bosonic. Thus a population of f/H is required to achieve
gain from nickel. (which is the function of the Rossi "mouse" unit).
If this sounds a bit Millsean - then so be it. Perhaps Mills failed to
recognize that certain isotopes themselves, especially singularities such as
Ni-62 can possess latent physical properties (perhaps bosonic) which make
them more conducive to promoting the kind of ground state, deep level
redundancy - which produces excess heat. This is Mills' own contribution to
the field, but he did not go far enough.
Strange bedfellows, eh? Rossi and Mills?
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From: Jones Beene
From: DJ Cravens
Ni-62
If we assume that speculation about Rossi is
correct, what materials other than Ni-62 could be used?
If it is p + X reaction, what other isotopes
other than Ni62 could be used?
Or perhaps it is really a p+p reaction with
Ni-62 donating something???
Anyone have any suggestions?
This is an important point - is there a
substitute for Ni-62?
The best way to approach the subject is to
look at the isotope and ask - is there anything which is unique about this
species? Then, if the answer is "yes" we must ask - how does the unique
property materialize in the gainful reaction?
As to the first part - yes - Ni-62 is a
singularity in the periodic table, being the one isotope with the highest
binding energy per nucleon of all known nuclides (~8.8 MeV per) ... and yet
here it is being identified as active for the anomalous energy Rossi claims
to have found with hydrogen.
On the one hand, if there is true gain in
this device primarily due to properties of this isotope - being a
singularity could be an important clue. OTOH it is most surprising that the
physical property for which it derives its uniqueness - is the opposite of
what one logically expects in the situation. That property, which is
"highest binding energy" means the isotope is the most stable. What is the
next most stable? That would be an iron isotope, but iron could have
chemical properties which interfere with the nuclear reaction
As for Part-2 of the inquiry... which is
"why" ... this has been addressed piecemeal in prior postings, and I will
collect these, with revisions, in another posting.
Jones
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