Thank you, now everything depend on-Cu is real, or not! Peter On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 12:25 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> In reply to Peter Gluck's message of Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:31:09 +0200: > Hi, > [snip] > >That device working for 6 months has produced approx. 50,000 kWhours heat. > >Can this be explained by the reaction of transmutation of Ni to Cu? > >Considering first 300 grams of nichel...? Rossi can tell how much > >Ni is uesd - if he will. Am important rough energy balance anyway. > >Peter > [snip] > If all Ni isotopes react equally, and 2/3 of Ni is Ni-58, and we assume > single > proton fusion, then the primary reaction would be: > > Ni-58 + H -> Cu-59 + 3.42 MeV > > which then decays rapidly via positron decay according to > > Cu-59 -> Ni-59 + e+ + neutrino + 4.8 MeV (however a considerable portion of > this > will be lost via neutrinos; say 1/2?). > > so the total reaction energy is 3.42 + 2.4 = 5.82 MeV / Ni-58. > > 2/3 *50000 kWh / 6 MeV = 1.2E23 Ni-58 reactions, which is 12 gm Ni-58, or > about > 18 gm Ni altogether (assuming the other isotopes all yield about the same > amount > of energy / atom). So quite within the realm of possibility. > > OTOH, if he had 300 gm of Ni, and 1/3 was converted to Cu, then that > represents > considerably more energy, and one has to wonder where it all went? > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html > >
