On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I may give it better than a passing chance, even if it is only 51%. That > could change quickly if there were more dots to connect. Here is one more > dot - at the 10th International Workshop on Anomalies in Hydrogen Loaded > Metals, last year in Siena, Italy - a professor or two with connections to > Kurchatov and the Russian paper cited earlier were there. Could mean > nothing > - Russians like to get out of Moscow in April, as Spring comes late. > However, they have been notably silent on what they are doing during those > long winters, if it involves LENR. > > A few other factoids. The preferred gaseous nickel compound for use in a > centrifuge cascade appears to be nickel tetrafluorophosphine, Ni(PF3)4, > called tetrakis. The Russians can enrich to 80%. The cost can only be > guesstimated, but would be favorable based on the sunk cost of having lots > of unused time on a billion-buck centrifuge array - which quite a few > Countries, like the USA do have available... IOW Ni-62 could be factor of > 1000 less than what you pay at a chem. supply house. It could be about a > tenth the cost per gram of 235U enrichment. Nickel tetrafluorophosphine is > known as "tetrakis" nickel since in geometry and polyhedron notation, > tetrakis is used to describe a certain solid shape, which this molecule > presents. Palladium also has a tetrakis form. Has a certain Dune > reminiscence, no ? > > OTOH, we can't put much faith in coincidence or Conference attendance. > "Spice" is a bit less alluring when you realize that it is basically > sandworm guano. > Is it just a coincidence that flourine is used to process the nickel and Passerini said in a coded message on his blog that fluorine would make a better electrolyte in the SPAWAR experiments? I posted Passerini coded message on april 22: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg79083.html Harry
