in 8. fuel Analysis it states: The fuel contains natural nickel powder with a grain size of a few microns.
so the nickel must move around at tempertures where lithium is liquid. On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > I misunderstood the particle analysis in the Lugano report, On page 50 of > the Lugano report, I just realized that the nickel fuel particle had a hugh > natural abundance of pure lithium content. Its size may not have changed > between when it was fuel through the time that it became ash. It's huge. > Consistently, Table 1 also shows a lot of lithium in the fuel. This > particle configuration is not consistence with the commensally availible > nickel particles used by replications. That stuff is about 5 microns > average and contains lots of carbon but no lithium. Rossi has somehow > processed the commensally available particles to add lots of lithium. Did > Rossi give his COTS nickel particles some sort of lithium bath in a fuel > fabrication process. > > In figure 3, there is lots of carbon in particle 1. But in figure 9, there > was none. How can that be? The fuel should contain lots of carbon. Why does > fig. 9 not show any? Both types of test should have shown carbon, > > The nickel particles are huge at about 100 microns, There are a number of > them in the micrograph (a) on page 44. It is unlikely that nickel particles > can move around much in a particle fuel mixture with lithium aluminum > hydride powder. So how could they gather together in an aggragation of such > large numbers unless they came into the fuel mix as 100 Micron particles to > begin with. > > If anybody has an explanation I am willing and able to be educated. >
