In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:39:38 -0500: Hi, [snip] >From Peter. Some of his Vortex posts are not getting through. >in case it did not went througfh to Vortex >and here is a patent published today >http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20110005506 [snip] Quote:
"Considering that about 10.sup.6 tons nickel for year are produced through the world and since, as it will be disclosed hereinafter in Table 1, 1 g nickel would generate an energy amount equivalent to that produced by 517 tons oil, thus the yearly produced nickel amount, assuming that only 1/10,000 generates nuclear processes, will provide 1,000,000,000,000*517/10000=51,700,000,000 (oil equivalent) ton per year. " Note that the 1/10000 is nonsense. If it's not involved in a fusion reaction, then it's still Ni, and waiting to be used. IOW it isn't 1/10000 that gets used, it's all of it, and it lasts 10000 times longer, or alternatively vastly less is required than is currently produced. Furthermore, if only the addition of a single proton is used, e.g.:- Ni-58 + P -> Ni-59 + 3.4 MeV (after decay) (Ni-58 is 2/3 of all Ni), then 1 gm of Ni only generates enough energy for 0.135 toe, not 517 toe (I think someone slipped a few decimals here). Nevertheless the energy consumption of the entire human race could be met by an annual Ni production of just 82000 tons, or 6% of current production. (I note that the patent uses 10 MeV / reaction, but gets it wrong anyway). Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
