Doesn't everything have trace amount, at the very least, of many other things. Even assuming there really is Fusion Bi-Products, I don't see how they would be distinguishable from trace amounts of the same isotopes that are there, anyway. When I worked at Johnson Mathey, more than anything, we took metals that were already pure to one part in 10,000 and purified them to about one part in 100,000. A small number of things were pure to parts in a million. But this increase the value of the base metal MANY times, since only trace amounts were used in a given micro-circuit. This was many years ago, but I think my memory is reasonably close to the facts at that time. Comparing apples to oranges still gives us some information about fruit, in general: I seem to remember that the bi-products from Hiroshima and Nagasaki are though to have decreased in Mass on an order of only about a gram. My point is, one must postulate a really exotic form of fusion to explain so little heat for so much tranmuted by-products
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:43:23 -0400 Subject: Re: [Vo]:How much nickel does the planet really have to play around with? From: [email protected] To: [email protected] 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
