Jones Beene wrote:
The heating value of H2 is 130 kJ/g which is equal to .04 kWhr. This seems to work out to the Rossi reactor being about 65 time more than chemical. A nuclear reaction should be about one million times more energetic, and a Millsean reaction should be about 200 times.
The Rossi cell did not peter out in this test. It did not stop producing energy. For all anyone knows, it might have gone on for months, or years. Supposedly some cells have run for months. So you cannot draw any conclusions about the limits of the potential energy from any of these tests. Even if it is "consuming" 1 g of H2 per day, as I pointed out, most of that is probably leaking out.
It will take much better, more leak-proof equipment to determine whether the fuel uses up in the Mills' range (200 times chemistry?) or the nuclear range (~1 million times chemistry). The present test is analogous to driving a car around the block, parking it, and declaring that the maximum range of the gas tank is 0.5 km. We have no idea how much gas is left in the tank.
Actually you can never measure a nuclear effect by detecting a decrease in the available fuel if the fuel is H2. Maybe you could if the fuel is one or two Ni isotopes. For anything involving H2, you have to find a product, such as helium. This experimental apparatus cannot possibly contain helium.
A commercial unit will surely be a lot more leakproof than this, as Beene points out.
- Jed
