Harry - I liked that paper - but aren't you adding up the miracles ? i.e. the thermal miracle first and with spin current as the second miracle?
One conceivable scenario using only the original miracle is this - if the reaction rate is so strong that hot ions of intermediate energy (tens of keV) are produced from fusion reactions in the nickel at a remarkably constant rate, and the powder is spread thinly so than no bulk heating occurs in it - then these ions can be absorbed in the walls of the reactor and thermalized as heat. They also give electrical charge. The problem then goes back to the lack of gammas and lack of bremsstrahlung. There are not many candidate materials for this. However, in prior message, there is the one candidate in Ni-63. It appears to be the only candidate in the periodic table for a beta-voltaic reaction according to the Russians. Apparently they have presented a way, in that paper, to enrich nickel to about 80% Ni-62, which is Rossi's named active isotope. How he gets it to Ni-63 could be his single miracle. Does anyone know if AR has a Russian connection? Is her name Tatiana? From: Harry Veeder The local production of energy does not necessarily have to result in a local production of heat. For example see this article posted by pagnucco a few days ago. http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2013/apr/22/spin-waves-carry-energy -from-cold-to-hot 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
