If Rossi's invention works - and for the reason supplied in the application, and if one wanted to apply standard logic to "why" the isotope with the highest binding energy per nucleon of all known nuclides is responsible, then perhaps one could pose the argument that: the one with the most - has the most to spare...
To continue with a little more punagement, one could opine this kind of
logic makes it Marx...
... but is it Karl or Groucho?
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.... Karl Marx
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of
five.... Groucho Marx
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On April 15th, an update has been made to the Rossi patent
application at the European Patent Office - which was mentioned previously
here.
https://register.epo.org/espacenet/application?documentId=EUIP5C400118284&nu
mber=EP08873805&lng=en&npl=false
As you can see, Nickel-62 is featured in Claim One as the
active species for the reaction, essentially making this patent very
specific.
The curious factoid ... or "irony" is that Ni-62 (NOT an
iron isotope) - is a singularity in a way, being the isotope with the
highest binding energy per nucleon of all known nuclides (~8.8 MeV per) and
yet here it is being identified as active for the anomalous energy Rossi
claims to have found with hydrogen.
Jones
On the one hand, if there is true gain in this device
primarily due to properties of this isotope - being a singularity could be
an important clue. OTOH it is most surprising that the physical property for
which it derives its uniqueness - is the opposite of what one logically
expects in the situation.
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