If the nickel particles are the ultimate source of 3.5X over-unity heat in the Rossi reactor, it is paradoxical and against common sense that 900 constantly applied watts of heat energy is required to keep the nickel particles active.
Furthermore, this COP value is far under what the Hot-cat can do. The real COP is somewhere north of 6. At an external temperature that is hovering at 1400C for days, there is no room for differences in temperature within the guts of the reactor itself. The answer must be that the nickel particles are not the main source of the heat in the reactor. They need lots of heat stimulation to function and they are not getting that heat from over-unity heat production. The isotopic tests confirm that the nickel particles are pure nickel. These particles must melt at 1450C. The conclusion that logic forces us to arrive at must be that there is another place where all that over unity heat is coming from. These particles cannot be producing (900 watts) (3.5) = 3150 watts of output power.
