Michael, Thank you for the input. Do you have data on your Griggs pump? and how do you define "low" flow? I would like to eliminate 'cavitation' as a factor if it is not involved in NiH; and on reappraisal of the situation - it may not be involved.
In reviewing data from positive unpublished NiH experiments yesterday - the curious thing is that the 'trigger temperature' appears to be right at 350 C. in several different Arata type alloys. This is probably not coincidental. Do not know what to make of it, except it could NOT be the Rossi effect, since he claims to get heat starting at 60C. And as you say, it cannot be magnetostriction, except in an inverse way of losing magnetic alignment due to the curie point. Up till recently, it had seemed most likely to me that the Rossi effect was building on the Japanese experiments with nanopowder, more so than anything Focardi has ever published. In the Takahashi/Kitamura version of NiH, using Arata-type powder, if there is a cavitation effect at all, it would involve phonons vibrating at a much higher rate than ultrasound (probably IR) and it would trigger at the Curie temp of nickel. Why would that be? -----Original Message----- From: Michael Foster A couple of things: The curie temperature of nickel is 354 C. I think the nickel powder in the Rossi reactor would have to be above that to generate 10kW. So no magneto-anything. I'll bet I'm the only one on this list to have built a Griggs device and it works just fine at a low flow-though. M.
