On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
You may have missed one huge detail. Did not the gas quantity in the reactor > actually increase significantly after 30 days compared to initial > conditions > ? > Yes. Interesting detail. I hope they give out more information. > If D2 gas reacts with nickel, not only do you get radioactive ash, which is > not mentioned I think they're holding off on reporting their radiation measurements until later (there was a slide towards the end that hinted at this). but surely would have been mentioned if it was there, but also > a drop in pressure and in the quantity of gas - as hot protons are captured > in the metal and neutrons are absorbed. > I would have thought that the protons would migrate out and recombine to form H2. But I don't think that would account for a twofold increase. Unless H2 takes up a larger volume than D2/DH/H2? I'm not sure what's going on with this detail. (Note that in early MFMP experiments, there was a weird relationship between pressure and their XP curves, suggesting some kind of artifact, so conceivably there could be something similar going on here.) Eric
