To clarify - this value of ~300 eV represents the 11th Rydberg multiple - but in nickel represents the first 6 electron ionization potentials (not the 11th IP).
For nickel that total is 299.96 eV and the perfect fit would be 299.2 eV.
Nickel has 10 valence electrons. BTW the first five IPs of Ni is also a
Rydberg fit and there could be significance to there being a fit at two
adjacent levels.
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Bo Höistad quote:
As a nuclear physicist, I can directly say
that, based on the well-known knowledge of core processes, the probability
of nuclear transformations that cause heat production in the E-cat
vanishingly small.
This is another bit of informed opinion which can be said to
be most consistent with a Millsean approach in determining the nature of the
excess... well not quite Millsean but based on Rydberg energy gaps in the
nickel electron cloud - which could be due to wave-function collapse.
In a previous posting, my suggestion was outlined for a
version of Mills' redundancy giving the Rydberg value of energy gain of ~300
eV. This turns up in nickel at the 11th ionization potential (27.2 eV * 11).
It is almost a perfect match. If it were not such a near-perfect match, it
would never have come up.
To see if any other researcher had documented this value - I
did a google search and wow - Biberian reports that this exact value - which
was seen in Japan in a nickel-copper experiment. Here is the relevant quote:
"As for the heat balance, the endothermic tendency was
observed both in D and H
runs below 500 K, above which only H had the exothermic
tendency. At 523K, while
the deuterium run remained endothermic, the protium run
showed the exothermic
tendency with a specific output energy reaching about 300
eV/atom-Ni which is
anomalously high in view of the known chemical reactions."
Y. Miyoshi, H. Sakoh, A. Taniike, A. Kitamura, A. Takahashi,
T. Murota an d T. Tahara, Proceedings of the 12th Meeting of Japan CF
Research Society, JCF12
December 17-18, 2011 Kobe University, Japan, p. 1
"Gas-phase hydrogen isotope absorption/adsorption
characteristics of a Ni-based sample"
Turns out it was one of Ahern's samples.
This energy range - 300 eV fits the evidence very well -
since it is about 200 times more energetic than burning hydrogen in oxygen
and it produces no measureable radiation outside the reactor and no
transmutation.
Jones
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