So many egregious errors ... so little time to correct them all... Bob Higgins: This business of Rossi using a radioactive ingredient is a Bozo
speculation based on absolutely nothing. And Rossi is not the only one to measure gamma from a LENR experiment ... Oh... Rossi measured gamma? News to me. Can we see your citation on that one, please. In the mean time, here is precisely what Focardi and Rossi have to say in print - about gamma radiation in the E-Cat: http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/FocardiSanewenergy.pdf Focardi and Rossi: "During experimental tests, continuous controls on the radioactivity levels in close proximity to the apparatus suitably lead shielded, were performed by using a gamma ray detector and three passive neutron bubble detectors, one of which for thermal neutrons: no radiation was observed at levels greater than natural radiation background. No radioactivity has been found also in the Nickel residual from the process. As for the "Bozo speculation" apparently Higgins in unaware that numerous researchers, including Dennis Cravens, who he apparently admires - have used a radioactive ingredient to jump start the LENR reaction. This technique goes back a long way in LENR -all the way back to the first issue of Infinite Energy See I.E. # 1, p. 46, "Cold Fusion in a 'Ying Cell' and "Probability Enhancement by Boson Stimulation," by Nelson Ying and Charles W. Shults III. I presume that Cravens is not the Bozo, so who is? Celani? He was the first to mention this possibility. All of these guys, and probably Rossi as well found that a small radioactive source increased the reaction rate by many orders of magnitude at startup - way, way beyond its own physical contribution. Rusi Taleyarkhan and others in bubble fusion have also used a radioactive source as a trigger, which became a problem later on. It may not be S.O.P. but it is done. Jones
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