From: Axil Axil
Piantelli ran three tests using the same reactor. two show no Cr and Mn and one that did. If electromigation from the heater was happening, all three tests would have shown it. Sorry - that is not at all unusual. Three tests is far from adequate under any circumstance. We are talking about extremely small traces of elements, and there is a large degree of randomness in where stray elements are deposited, and where the researcher chooses to look. Plus, to be at all convincing - one MUST look for isotopic shifts. Piantelli may have intentionally used a technique that did not allow this or else intentionally not reported the evidence. For instance, if all the chromium found was Cr-54 - then yes, he has a real anomaly, since not only is this isotope rare, but it is the one which is closest in a.m.u. to nickel. If the Cr was from electromigration, it would be there in the natural ratio. Ask yourself why is there no breakdown by isotope ratio? The most likely explanation is that it was seen to be natural, and therefore contracted the main contention - and thus was omitted. Bottom line: It would have been convincing would to run a dozen tests and see the same isotope shift in a new rare element not found in Stainless Steel. This was not done. However, something like this has been done with palladium-deuterium reactions, so it is not asking too much. No one can reasonably doubt transmutation in Pd-D and one major reason that it is fundamentally different from Ni-H is that there is not the same good evidence for transmutation. Thermacore ran a nickel hydrogen test cell for over a year and no transmutation was reported. To me that says it all, and nothing from Piantelli comes close to having the credibility of this Hi-Tech company. SEM can be rather subjective in application. The operator can chose to find or overlook active areas of an electrode, either intentionally or not. Plus Piantelli has been guilty of conflating old results with new results in his past presentations. Many experts have said that there is nothing convincing in Piantelli's SEM work. As a non-expert, it is easy for me to see why they would say that. Jones
