Good but with a reservation. In some labs are sometimes storages of old chemicals how can be used decades after being buy. Torulf.
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 09:54:36 -0700, Brad Lowe <ecatbuil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jones, > > Li6 production was stopped in 1963. The depleted lithium that was a > by-product of enrichment has (probably) long ago been distributed and > used up. > > It is highly unlikely that current producers are changing the natural > ratio of Li-6 to Li-7-- as depleting it for the general public would > involve enriching into a controlled material with no (current) demand. > You can buy 99% pure lithium ingots for $50/kg and at that price it > will not be depleted. > > That said, MFMP reports: "The first packet of Dr. Parkhomov powder > arrived at Bob Higgins in New Mexico a few hours ago and a portion of > that will be going to Dr Edmond Storms for SEM / EDX tomorrow by post. > We may all know exactly what his fuel Nickel looks like before we get > a chance to run it!" > > - Brad > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: >> Correction: >> >> >> >> Some new information received just now indicates that the Li-6 problem was >> recognized early on, at least at one conference. (Provo) >> >> >> >> I will try to check this out if I can locate the documents. Since this >> information did not turn up in a google search, it could be that the details >> of lithium depletion were known early on, but not widely appreciated – at >> least in implications. >> >> >> >> Everyone seems to have been convinced that cold fusion was deuterium fusion >> so the isotopic contribution of electrolyte would not matter. >> >> >> >> If this depletion of Li-6 had been widely appreciated in potential impact, >> then one would think that two experiments, one with Li-6 and one with Li-7 >> would have been performed years ago. A reference for that does not turn up >> either. >> >> >> >> From: Jones Beene >> >> Up until very recently – when a researcher – even at a top Lab - bought >> lithium hydroxide, it almost never contained the natural level of Lithium-6 >> (which is already low). >> >> This is an undisputable fact, not revealed until circa 2010 – that for 50 >> years in the USA there has been a hidden isotopic depletion in commercial >> lithium – which was a relic of the cold war. Don’t ask don’t tell. >> >> What does this mean for LENR, in the historical perspective - “if and when” >> it is finally shown that the active isotope – going all the way back to 1989 >> is and always has been Li-6 and not deuterium? For one thing, this helps to >> explain why the cold fusion reaction was so hard to replicate. >> >> Obviously is success depends on one rare isotope which is never more than >> 7-8% under the best of circumstances (unless deliberately enriched)– and >> that isotope is systematically removed from some but not all commercial >> electrolytes – then it becomes very difficult to achieve the same results >> from run to run. Most of the available electrolyte was severely depleted and >> simply will not work at all. >> >> RELEVANT QUOTE: “Because of the fact that the enrichment of Li-6 was part of >> a classified military weapons program, the general scientific community and >> the public were never provided information that the lithium being >> distributed in the chemical reagents was depleted in Li-6. This distribution >> resulted in labels on containers of reagents, which had incorrect atomic >> weight values listed on them.” >> >> http://www.iupac.org/publications/ci/2010/3201/3_holden.html >> >> I have come to believe in recent weeks that Li-6 is the active isotope for >> thermal gain. Admittedly that is not proved yet, but I think it will be in >> the next few months. >> >> It really pisses me off that this charade has been going on for all of these >> years and some of the biggest critics of cold fusion, early on – probably >> knew this all along. >> >> Jones
