OK, then the only "nano suprise" is that it has taken 20 years to figure out that it was just surface area? DGT is using micropowder in their specs and those have been around awhile...
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > *From:* Chemical Engineer **** > > ** ** > > … with all that research grant money were only able to generate tens of > watts of power from their reactions and here comes Rossi with a mail order > degree from a now defunct Kensington University and achieves tens of > thousands of watts of power...**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > This is not a big surprise, in fact it is a nano surprise. That is, when > you realize that the gain is actually expected from using the correct > criterion: which is based on only one variable – active surface area. **** > > ** ** > > When you go from the Nickel capillary tubes of Thermacore and 30 watts > gain to “nanometric” powder, and Rossi’s kilowatts - you effectively had > increased the available surface by roughly the same ratio increase in > power, even though with less mass.**** > > ** ** > > IOW - Rossi gets slightly less power from a gram of nanopowder (per unit > of surface area) today than did Thermacore in 1994 from than same surface > area (but far more mass).**** > > ** ** > > Jones**** >
