Axil,
* * Loading hydrogen into Rust does not produce nuclear derived heat. Correct - it produce iron and water. I do not see Fe2O3 specifically as being involved at all in Rossi. FeO - however, when fully supported (shared oxygen) does make sense - but not Fe2O3. After all, the Swedes said iron in some form was there at a fair percentage, and they did sophisticated testing. Hydrogen reduction is one way that low carbon iron is processed from iron ore by the way. Iron ore is essentially rust. How to you propose to attenuate the reduction of rust inside the Rossi cell ? It could not last an hour. Having said that - your speculation about nickel oxide and copper oxide as Mott insulators does have merit, BUT ONLY when they are positioned to share their oxygen atom with the zirconia support. Otherwise they would be rapidly reduced also. In the same way, FeO is possible to be used as a catalyst - if and when supported on a dielectric, plus FeO is probably a Mott insulator. I don't think rust qualifies at all, since it is fairly conductive. BTW - iron oxides of various levels have been used in tonnage as a bulk catalysts with hydrogen for a long time - that much is true. When used in the Haber process, the oxides are partially reduced ahead of time, and there is a competing oxidant present (nitrogen) which lowers the rate of full reduction to iron, but even so - catalyst must be replaced periodically and often, which is inconsistent with running a Rossi reactor continuously. Rust or magnetite was ideal in the original Haber process since it is more valuable when reduced, than as a refined ore. If there was to be any heat anomaly involving rust - we would have known about it long ago, as the ammonia industry is old, competitive and was a national priority 100 years ago. Every detail of Haber and its offshoots has been thoroughly analyzed. Jones
