From: Bob Higgins
Ø To have measured the gas left in the reactor at the end, the whole reactor would have to be placed in a large ulta-high vacuum system with mechanical feedthru attachments designed to break the seal on the reactor while inside the UHV. No way. Hot tapping machines are available everywhere. The only accommodation would be a diamond bit to go through the alumina. Any skilled plumber could do this. Ø This would have been a large undertaking. Having viewed their setup, it was probably considerably out of their budget and scope. Again – no way - $1000 max plus time. All it takes is competence. We are talking about massive amounts of helium which would have been produced which is completely different from electrolysis. Ø Historically, credibly measuring He in the electrolytic PdD experiments was hard - you have to prove it could not have come from atmospheric contamination. Geeze-Louise, those were subwatt systems. This is a 1.5 megawatt-hour system – millions of time more output - which would have produced .03 moles of helium over the run. There would be no contamination from helium in air. If most of the gas were leaking out during the run - any good helium leak detector would have seen it. Finding a measurable percentage of the sample gas to be He could confidently be determined to be a reaction product rather than contamination due to the higher pressure of the sample container which could not have been produced from atmospheric contamination. Bob – you are living in the dark ages of subwatt electrolysis systems - and trying to defend a bunch of incompetent experimenters. There would be no problem finding helium – when as ash, it was responsible for 1.5 MW-hrs of energy over 32 days – and this is essentially what Cook and Rossi are now saying. Levi’s work was beyond bad. It cannot be defended. Jones
