I don’t consider this a crazy idea at all.
In fact, there is my nearly-identical conclusion from yesterday:
http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/msg98021.html
-Bob
From: Robert Dorr [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 10:31 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Vo]:[Rossi TR#2] Reactor close down : all Li and Ni converted.
Coincidentally?
First off let me get this out of the way, I am not a physicists so this is
probably completely impossible, but I'll throw it out here anyway. What if the
conversion of Ni 58 and Li 7 happen relatively quickly so that very soon after
the reaction is commenced there is almost a complete conversion of Ni 58 to Ni
62 and an almost complete conversion of Li 7 to Li 6 and what sustains the
reaction from that point on is primarily a cyclic reaction between Ni 62 and Li
6. Just throwing this out there. Go ahead and start telling me that this
couldn't happen, I know it's a crazy idea.
Robert Dorr
On 10/9/2014 8:12 AM, Alain Sepeda wrote:
the powder change seems quite simple... no complex procedure... surprising.
2014-10-09 15:53 GMT+02:00 Alan Fletcher <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>:
At 04:23 AM 10/9/2014, Teslaalset wrote:
I find it quite a coincident that after 32 days approximately all Ni and Li
were transmuted to Ni62 and Li6. I would have guessed that running out of the
original isotopes would create a reduced performance which would be the reason
for shutdown.
Why has this not been mentioned?
Although none of the tests show it, I still believe that the ECAT will run, as
advertised, for at least 6 months on one charge. The time for this test was set
by the experimental team (and most likely by their host, which was paying for
the power).
I'm beginning to think that this transmutation was a "burn-in" secondary
effect, particularly for the Lithium, which was there only to provide the
hydrogen.
If you ignore the bump when they changed the input power levels (files 4 to 6)
the COP increased almost linearly over the whole test.
So maybe the "long term" COP depends on these transmutations -- ie the
availability of (most likely) Ni62, and coincidentally Li6 -- and would have
stabilized just a few days later when the transmutation was complete.
I wonder if Rossi knew this would happen. However, he usually runs his Ecats at
higher power, so the burn-in might be much quicker -- and he's never analyzed
the ash that early.
He's also hinted that the 1MW "baby" at the "customer" has also needed constant
attention and adjustment (including being called out in the middle of the
night). Maybe it too is undergoing a settling-in period --- it's also been
running for less than a month.
But we won't get those results for at least a year, and they will be purely
internal documents.
In short, I think it IS coincidental that the Ni and Li transmutation was
nearly complete at the end of the run, but that some other reaction continues
beyond that point.
And even if the 1g charge DID have to be replaced monthly it would probably
still be economical.
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