Axil, Tungsten would be a whole new game in town.
Its main 'advantage' being that it would make Rossi's claims a bit more plausible. My personal experience is: Stick to what is working, and do not make major changes. My major objection, based on a bit of common sense, still holds: LENR is NOT a homogenous process and necessarily has its hot spots, far surpassing average temperature. I think we a gree that 1000degC is dangerously close to recrystallization, which, with Ni seems to be somewhere near 1120degC. If this is correct, Rossi would have managed nearly perfect control of the process, leaving all his competitors in the dust. Another aspect being: with a 'dry' process one cannot remove the process heat, so it would have to be a 'wet' process, where the cooling fluid is in direct contact to the reactant. But in this case (wet process) all MY mental conceptions of the nature of the process break down. Quite possibly I'm wrong, as an armchair theorist in the issue. Just assembling the laws of nature and the evidences to something possible. Rossi has to deliver evidence, to prove me wrong. Up to now he nearly did nothing of this sort. Right now the probability that Rossi is a bigmouth with an illusion of grandeur is much higher than him actually delivering something. Guenter ________________________________ Von: Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> An: vortex-l@eskimo.com Gesendet: 20:15 Dienstag, 24.Juli 2012 Betreff: Re: [Vo]:What the DOD gave to Rossi? IMHO, nickel micro-powder cannot sustain reactor long term operating temperatures at 1000C without deteriorating especially if copper is produced as a transmutation product. Something has to give with this concept and I believe it is the use of nickel as the reaction substrate. Micro powder would be retained as a way to maximize reaction surface area, but an element with a higher melting temperature would need to be used to keep the micro powder grains from sintering together into a congealed mess. The use of tungsten is my guess especially since Rossi states that he needs more x-ray shielding in his new very high temperature system. Tungsten will produce that type of radiation profile. > >Cheers: Axil >
