In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:29:59 -0400: Hi, [snip] >[email protected] wrote: >> 15 kW for 18 hours at 5 MeV / reaction equates to 120 mg of Nickel. IOW the >> amount that would actually react is 120 mg. > >I gather you are suggesting that much of the Ni will eventually react, >but in the 18-hour experiment only 120 mg did react.
In this case I suspect that is what Rossi was saying. >The rest is >"unburned fuel" if you will. It will eventually . . . do what? >Transmute into copper? Supposedly. > >I wonder what keeps the whole shebang from going off at once? According to Rossi, sometimes it (nearly) does (note the 130 kW output for a short period). > >A "catalyst" is a material that promotes a reaction, and is then freed >up to promote it again. Catalysts are not used up. So perhaps it is a >misnomer to call this a catalyst. Mills catalysts need to be recycled. I think that means the conditions under which they form are different to the conditions under which they are destroyed, though there is no net change over a full cycle in either quantity or energy content. That may also be true of Rossi's catalyst. [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
