And to further complicate the analysis keep in mind Mill's reference to "ashless chemistry".
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen A. Lawrence [mailto:sa...@pobox.com] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:04 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Krivit relents On 01/20/2011 10:48 AM, Rich Murray wrote: > Rossi on his blog explains that the heat output during the demo came > from the nuclear reaction of several picograms of Ni -- about 3 X > 10E-12 gm ... a millionth of a microgram, while the mass of the > nuclear reacting H would be 1 atom of H for each atom of Ni reacting, > with the most common isotope being Ni62, so the H mass used would be > several times (1/62) = about 3 X .016 picogram = about 5 X 10E-14 gm. > Sure, but the question was whether weighing it would pick up a chemical scam, as outlined about four messages back in this thread. Chemicals which don't produce gaseous reaction products would show the same undetectably small mass change a true nuclear process would show, so weighing the device wouldn't help. All the reasoning about this device depends critically on the question of whether there was a chemical reactor inside the cylinder. As far as I know, only Rossi knows the answer to that. ... > It will be possible for every family to have an individual automatic > flying escape pod in case of earthquakes, storms, fires, tsunamis, and > terrorism... > Unless the secret ingredient is thermite, in which case, it won't be possible. (See earlier message for an outline of how this might have been done.) Black box tests with an untrusted invention are very dicey affairs.
