This could be absurdly false - and could kill any remaining credibility that Rossi has.
I will defer to anyone who does this kind heat transfer calculation on a regular basis but it looks absurd to me now based on the one basic simple issue - heat transfer limitations. With only 20 grams of active material, I'm pretty sure that it can be shown that it is physically impossible to transfer that much heat to the rest of the reactor before the nickel or any other known metal turns into a gas. The boiling point of nickel is 2,900+ . think about the implications ! what this all "boils down to" is can 20 grams of nickel transfer that much heat - roughly 14+ kWhr for several hundred hours? Forget the energy implications - as a straight-up heat transfer issue, this looks to be beyond physical reality. Of course - Rossi could say that the nickel boils inside the reactor at 10,000 degrees, but is that logical? From: Jed Rothwell I wrote: That's the small incandescent gadget in the foreground. Right? Much smaller than a 1 MW reactor, shown behind it. Here is Rossi's description of the incandescent gadget: http://www.e-catworld.com/2012/10/final-update-corrected-again-pordenone-hot -cat-report/ - Jed
