In reply to Jones Beene's message of Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:15:18 -0700: Hi, If we take the table at face value, then most of the missing 64Ni ended up as 58Ni & 60Ni.
Consider the following reactions:- Hy2 + 64Ni => 62Ni + 4He + 11.8 MeV Hy2 + 62Ni => 60Ni + 4He + 9.88 MeV Hy2 + 60Ni => 58Ni + 4He + 7.91 MeV The amount of 62Ni may have remained more or less stable because it was both contributing to the 60Ni, and receiving from the 64 Ni. If this is the actual reaction mechanism, then it shouldn't make much difference how much 64Ni is present. >It is distasteful to imagine that a waste of 6 years in understanding Ni-H >could have resulted from the Lugano fraud. But that is how it is shaping up. >Back in 2010, before the Lugano fiasco, there was a lot of speculation about >Rossi's purported secret- and the speculation was rampant that he was >enriching the nickel in an active isotope. He said as much, many times but >he claimed it was 62Ni - apparently because Focardi believed it was (due to >the proton fusion-to-copper hypothesis). > >Fast forward to Parkhomov, and the Sochi slides which are vastly at odds >with Lugano, except for excess heat. If in the analysis of the two >experiments, one now proceeds with this premise: Parkhomov is accurate and >Lugano is fraudulent. the result is that theoretical understanding can now >be clarified and it is different from Rossi. If we start with that premise >of Parkhomov's accuracy, then it turns out we knew the answer to the secret >sauce back in 2010. It is 64Ni - the heaviest stable isotope of nickel. It >is not 62Ni as Rossi/Focardi once suggested, and not lithium - which is the >currently favored hypothesis. > >The scientific rationale for this can be encapsulated in one observation. >Nickel 64 is the pinnacle of all stable isotopes which are "neutron heavy," >and in fact this the most neutron heavy isotope of all metals in the >periodic table (compared to the most stable isotope of that atom). > >64Ni is a singularity in that regard. The "extra" 6 neutrons make the nickel >64 nucleus over 10% heavier than the majority isotope (58Ni) and therefore >subject to weak-force reactions in the presence of a mobile positive charge >carrier (protons). This turns out to be a larger percentage of excess >neutrons (by a.m.u. ratio) than is found in Uranium or any heavy metal, >compared to the majority isotope. 64Ni could easily be the previously >unrecognized fuel for all of the claims of LENR in nickel-hydrogen, going >back to the Thermacore/Mills/Piantelli experiments in the early nineties - >since its beta signature would presumably be mild (as evidenced by the known >63Ni signature). > >Ni-64 is heavier than Ni-63 which is an unstable beta emitter with a short >half-life. One can surmise in general that beta decay is nature's way of >rectifying "neutron heaviness" without emitting neutrons. A tightly bound >nucleus like nickel 64 does not emit neutrons but could be "stimulated" into >beta decay by proton intrusion into the inner electron shell. "Stimulated >beta decay" has been the subject of recent and old threads here on vortex >going back to the early days of LENR. > >The beta decay energy level is low compared to fusion reactions, but it >means that nickel, on a per pound basis, has several tens of thousands of >times more energy per atom than is found in hydrogen combustion - yet >becomes depleted over a short time. Thus, the need to enrich. > >Jones > > >------------------------------------------------- >The relevant Sochi data is the chart on slide 13. You can see what happened >- the chart is logarithmic and the writer of paper apparently did not notice >that. Thus - a very substantial change took place - a drop in the ending >ratio of 64Ni of almost half, compared to the starting PLUS a starting ratio >which was 500% greater than natural - gets swept away without apparent >notice. > >Yet this is where ALL the action was happening. They had to enrich in 64Ni >to get these results - no question about it ! >https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5Pc25a4cOM2cHBha0RLbUo5ZVU/view Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
