In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sat, 30 Jun 2012 18:52:40 -0700:
Hi Jones,
I agree with your conclusion. I would add that Rossi claims to have initially
seen some of those gammas. What I would suggest is that essentially he gets a
runaway reaction when fusion actually occurs, and this is also when he gets high
COP values. In his efforts to prevent runaway he has inadvertently created a
reactor where f/H is the primary product, not fusion, hence currently little or
no gammas detected, and a maximum COP of about 6.
[snip]
>Robin,
>
>Rhetorical question ... We've been over this many times, yet a few observers
>continue to believe Rossi/Focardi must have got it right: that nickel
>transmutes to copper, despite the lack of evidence for that proposition and
>the nearly insurmountable evidence against.
>
>The copper in the ash (seen by the Swedes) comes from electromigration,
>since it is in the natural isotopic ratio, which makes it strong evidence
>against transmutation, not for transmutation, as is Rossi's contention.
>Electromigration is mundane and expected.
>
>The natural ratio of copper is well known and comes from the multi-billion
>year old supernova event which created earth, and it would be unimaginable
>that modern QM or LERN reactions can recreate this primordial event
>precisely at low energy, since the parameters are so extremely different.
>Thus the need for another miracle, if you believe AR.
>
>Even with a specialized detector, Bianchini did not find positrons
>significantly over background. This almost guarantees the Ni->Cu explanation
>is incorrect, as well as the W-L explanation being incorrect ... as well as
>the DDL explanation, as well as P-e-P->D.
>
> ... unless of course, you want to add yet another miracle - "miracle" being
>a new physics explanation... which is suppression of gammas. A "natural
>ratio" of copper in the ash would make it three separate miracles which are
>absolutely necessary for Rossi/Focardi.
>
>The net effect of this composite physical evidence, even if incomplete,
>leaves as the best viable explanation requiring only one "miracle"
>("conservation of miracles" criterion) ... some version of the
>Casimir/ZPE/Mills explanation, as last man standing.
>
>IOW - there is extremely low gamma radiation and extremely low
>transmutation, but lots of heat. The process of elimination should suffice
>for now, when there is too little solid evidence to back three miracles,
>instead of one... so to speak.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected]
>
>> Curiously this is precisely in the spectrum that Bianchini/Levi was
>looking at, in Rossi's original demonstration (the positron spectrum). Why
>were they looking there?
>
>Because 98% of the time, the Copper isotope Cu59 decays via positron decay
>with a half life of 81.5 seconds. Cu59 is what you get when you add a proton
>to Ni58, which is the principle constituent of Ni.
>
>Hence the transmutation that Rossi claimed was happening should have
>produced copious positrons, which in turn would have annihilated ambient
>electrons resulting in pairs of 511 keV gammas, which is what they were
>looking for.
>
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
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