I did not mean to slight Robin. He always has interesting and well founded comments.
Robins suggestion seems to match the depletion of the Ni isotopes to one degree or another and also a potential depletion of Li-7. Eric--where does you factor of 10-20 come from? I thought the depletion of Li-7 from the fuel was from 93% Li-7 and 7% Li-6 to ash with 7.9% to 42.5% Li-7 and would be consistent with the idea that the Li-7 changed to Li-6. The report did not quantitatively identify the depletion of Li-7, only its relative isotopic abundance. (7.9% of 93% is 1/12 or about 8% and 42.5% of 93% is 45%) McKubre addresses this issue of Li-7 involvement in the Lugano test in his review of the test that can be found on page 11 of INFINITE ENERGY, Issue 118 of November/December 2014. (McKubre points out that the authors of the test suggested that Be-8 was formed from Li-7 and H and that it decayed to 2 He atoms. They did not address the mechanism for the Ni isotope changes.) Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Walker To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2015 10:16 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Sealing the Dog Bone On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Bob Cook <[email protected]> wrote: It may be that the hydrogen only acts to help distribute the Li-7 to the Ni isotopes for the Li-7+Ni reactions Jones suggested back in October and Eric has just reviewed. Just a small correction. It was Robin that suggested that what was going on was a chain of 7Li(Ni,Ni)6Li neutron-stripping reactions. This is a suggestion that I'm still partial to. Unless there has been an error in my analysis, I'm inclined to think the percentage of lithium reported in the 2mg sample from the Lugano assay was unrepresentative of the percentage of lithium in the total charge by a factor of 10-20. Admittedly, this is a heavy strike against the proposed involvement of 7Li, all else being equal. Most advances in technology are based on a mixture of trial and error work and application of half-baked theory. They go hand in hand. Nice summary. Eric
