Sorry – but this reactor is made of alumina – which is a proton conductor. Beta alumina is among the best proton conducting ceramics but you would never use any form of alumina if you wanted to retain a supply of hydrogen after startup.
All of the initial hydrogen is gone within an hour due to hydrogen diffusion. This looks like a lithium-nickel reactor. From: Axil Axil NiH2 >Zn*> Ni + He 2H(1) + Ni(64) > Zn(66)* Step1 Zn(66)* > Ni(62) + He(4) Step 2 You also suffer from the nuclear physics syndrome where reactions are fixed over all systems. Each LENR system has a unique transmutation character based on the way the magnetic field emitters are deployed. In fact, each nickel particle produces a different reaction. On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Robert Lynn <[email protected]> wrote: so the claim is essentially that this soup of elements were also consumed to exhaustion, without changing power input or output as their quantities reduced, in an amazingly perfect process that has as its only product the highest binding energy Ni62 (also consuming Ni64) and without creating any observable radiation during the process and no radiative ash. It will require a very high level of proof to convince the world of the truth of that. On 9 October 2014 11:15, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: You have some unfounded assumptions in your thinking that are the same assumption that the testers suffer from. The reaction does not center on the nickel or the lithium. The LENR transmutation is done in the hydrogen and the aluminum and other elements. Did you see this line on page 53? Sample 2 was the fuel used to charge the E-Cat. It’s in the form of a very fine powder. Besides the analyzed elements it has been found that the fuel also contains rather high concentrations of C, Ca, Cl, Fe, Mg, Mn and these are not found in the ash. This means that C, Ca, Cl, Fe, Mg, Mn were consumed in the LENR reaction. On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Robert Lynn <[email protected]> wrote: De-cloaking long term lurker. Latest test result issues that raise my suspicions: * The uniformity of the Ni ash concerns me, the burn mechanism somehow converts all natural Ni isotopes (smaller and larger!! so fusion and fission in evidence) to Ni62, but with miraculously no radioactive isotopes produced? * The test is stopped at a pre-determined time where all the Ni just happens to have been converted, and nearly all the Li7, Rossi must have done exhaustive development to judge it so perfectly. * Huge consumption of Li, Ni 'fuel' - almost to exhaustion, yet the reaction power and COP appears to not change significantly through the test. To me that is exceptionally strange (practically magical) behaviour. If I were setting up a fake there are simple means to get power into the unit invisibly- like IR or UV lasers, fiber lasers, x-ray tubes, focused microwaves etc but I don't have enough info about the setup and facilities to make any judgement on things like this. I'm happy with black box reactor approach, and optical thermography/calorimetry is OK for these COPs, but flow calorimetry would be better. Unless and until truly independent testers have full control over the environment and calorimetry in facilities not controlled by Rossi these tests will not convince the world. I'll continue to observe, and hold some hope, but given the track record of sub-par demos and rumours of unpublished negative results I will need independent external testing by other than old associates of Rossi. On 9 October 2014 10:26, Blaze Spinnaker <[email protected]> wrote: Jed, perhaps someone is trying to discredit Rossi and thought this was the best way to do so. On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: Blaze Spinnaker <[email protected]> wrote: If Rossi switched out the ash, he's a fraud. End of story. Here is something you think about. Why would he switch out the ash? What possible benefit would that bring to him? What motivation would he have? The answers are no reason, none and none. Reasons: 1. The people paying for this work do not care about what causes the effect. They are interested in excess heat. Whether it comes from Ni transmutation or zero-point-energy is beside the point. It will not be more convincing to them if Rossi puts unnatural Ni isotopes into the mix. On the contrary, that will only confuse the issue and delay the research. 2. Suppose he did it. He is bound to be caught sooner or later. If this technology ever goes anywhere it will be independently replicated by people Rossi never meets, in labs he never goes to. It is certain they will find out he is faking. Long term, he will fail. So what short term gain can there be? 3. Along the same lines, if it is not true, he cannot get a patent for it, or a Nobel, or anything else. 4. Since people would soon distrust him, this would get in the way of proving the excess heat is real, and setting up commercial ventures. The excess heat is the only thing with commercial value at this stage, and Rossi is only interested in commercial development. He does not give a fig about science. Levi and Rossi's backers also have zero motivation to fake the Ni results. It would not benefit them at all, for the same set of reasons. Can you suggest any reason he would want to do this? Since this is your hypothesis, it is up to you to give a plausible reason why it might be true. - Jed
