In reply to Jones Beene's message of Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:22:35 -0800: Hi, [snip] >Underwhelming, so far. One detail skeptics will likely hit on is seen in the >Google translation > >http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://22passi.blogspot.com/2011/01/bolognia-14111-cronaca-test-fusione_14.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522focardi%2522%26start%3D20%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN%26tbs%3Dqdr:w%26prmd%3Divns&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1 > >... where internal temperature is said to be 1500 C. and that is under >pressure. Let's hope it is merely a poor translation.
The actual report says that there are places where the Nickel has fused, implying a temperature of 1500 ºC. (Melting point for Ni is 1455 ºC according to Webelements). [snip] BTW it occurred to me that the whole blog report might be a fake, so I went looking for press reports from the media that attended, and came across this:- http://au.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=slv&lp=xx_en&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbologna.repubblica.it%2Fcronaca%2F2011%2F01%2F14%2Fnews%2Ffusione_nucleare_a_freddo_a_bologna_ci_siamo_riusciti-11237521%2Findex.html%3Fref%3Dsearch Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
