On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 9:16 AM, David Roberson <dlrober...@aol.com> wrote:
Good point. As long as it takes a very tiny amount of precious metal the > cost could be contained. It would be much better to use one of the high > mass elements that is lower cost if you have any choice. > I suspect there's a choice here, and that something heavy but less expensive could be used. In my reading of the transmutation experiments, induced fission appears to be a competing channel to that of alpha decay. Palladium seems to offer an example of the latter. If whatever is increasing the decay rate of alpha and beta emitters is also inducing fission, then palladium would simply break apart (e.g., into Fe, Cr, Ca, Si, Ti, etc.). If this is true, although palladium would provide plenty of energy density as a result, but it might not be a good alpha particle source for the nickel fuel stock in the E-Cat. Eric
