In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:10:17 -0500: Hi, [snip] >On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:53 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I doubt Nitrogen can be used as a regulatory mechanism. It probably poisons >> the >> whole lattice, so I suspect that the reactor wouldn't work again until you >> got >> rid of it. IOW it was a good idea to shut down a run-away (like dumping Boron >> into a fission reactor), but not something you could use continuously. > >So you think it permanently occupies the lattice and cannot be purged by the H? > >T I think it could be purged by a *net* flow of H *through* the reactor, but AFAIK Rossi only uses pressure swings superimposed on a net flow *into* the reactor. IOW there is no H stream exiting the reactor to carry the N away, so it would just move around inside not be cleansed.
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