Thanks, Kyle.
I didn't check your math, but I bet it's correct. It fits with the
general picture. (And the conclusion is pretty funny, really...)
I still want to know how come we haven't seen a sample of anything from
Rossi which didn't show natural isotope ratios. Rossi's claimed to
have observed such things; so, how come the only (and much-anticipated)
sample of anything he's given anyone turned out to look natural?
And how come people on this list still seem to believe that Ni+H fusion
is taking place, given the thundering lack of evidence for such a
reaction? (H+H is something else again, but Rossi isn't claiming it,
and there hasn't been much discussion of it here that I've seen.)
On 11-05-09 07:09 PM, Kyle Mcallister wrote:
--- On Mon, 5/9/11, Terry Blanton<[email protected]> wrote:
He then claims that 58 g of Ni provides the equivalent
energy of
30,000 tons of oil with the strangest calculation that
begins with 10
MeV of energy per reaction. This is converted to mass
equivalent,
multiplied by Avogadro's number and, using Einstein's
equation,
converted back to energy!
What the...?
That's not fission level energy, or even fusion level energy. That's talking
within the order of magnitude of converting rest mass directly into energy.
Assuming by ton of oil he means 'tonne of oil equivalent'...
30,000 tons of oil would yield 1.26x10^15J (42x10^9J/tonne of oil equivalent)
Entire rest mass of 58g converted to energy yields 5.22x10^15J...
So Rossi is claiming to be able to convert 24.14% of the ENTIRE REST MASS OF
THE NICKEL CATALYST to energy??? Someone, tell me I did this math wrong,
please. This has to be some theory of his, and not what really happens. The
grocery list of stuff he claims in the ash reads like the near-collapse core of
a massive star at the end of its life.
Put another way, from that 58g of nickel can come the energy of a 300kT W87
nuclear warhead?
And this produces no radiation, he didn't see the cheerful
gin-and-tonic-under-a-blacklight blue glow and promptly die? God almighty, this
thing was looking interesting, but its getting to where you can only twist
one's arm so far before it gets ridiculous.
If he can make a heat source that makes 100C steam, fine. It's grand, you can
use it in any radiator in place of a oil-fired or gas-fired boiler. Even if you
can't make high grade electricity due to thermodynamics, just a heater is
damned important.
But he's claiming to have something equivalent to a mass to energy converter in
that little pipe, and no one has been char broiled? Is his hidden catalyst
antimatter?
I suppose the lead shielding (which ain't that fantastic from the look of
things) keeps them from being cooked. Alright. Anyone know of radiation hazards
produced by past tests of nickel and hydrogen under similar circumstances? Any
unexplained deaths? Burns? Radiation sickness or sterility? Somebody should
have pulled a Madame Curie by now, or at least saw something scintillating or
fluorescing. So where is it?
Confusing.
--Kyle
