At this point, the amount and balance of the elements in the Rossi ash cannot be determined.
IMHO, Rossi can’t tell how much nickel or hydrogen is used, consumed, or transmuted in his reactor because of the large amount of iron (and other undocumented elements) that are produced by erosion from the walls of the reaction vessel. To start out with, the Catalyst is initially afixed to the walls of the stainless steel reaction vessel. To remove the ash for analysis, the ash must be abraded away from the walls of the stainless steel vessel by a mechanical process. A reamer, sander, or some other cutting tool grinds the ash off the walls of the stainless steel reaction vessel. A large amount of iron, nickel, chromium, and other trace components of stainless steel are removed by the extraction process. There is no way to tell if nickel is even consumed by transmutation. The copper in the ash may well come from just hydrogen fusion only. Until a controlled study of how copper is formed in the Rossi process, nothing can be said about the consumption of nickel as a feed stock of the Rossi process. On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>wrote: > Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> However, there are much larger deposits called laterites which are lower >> grade, and seldom mined due to comparative cost. >> > > I do not know about nickel, but some types of ore are not mined because it > takes a lot of energy to mine and separate the ore. With cold fusion, these > ores could be mined in a cost effective manner. If this nickel ore can be > extracted with lots of energy, then Rossi-style cold fusion energy overhead > would be increased. It would be lower than the overhead for oil, which is > reportedly 10% to 20%, depending on the type of oil and where it is > extracted. > > - Jed > >
