2010/3/23 Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>:
> Michel Jullian wrote:
>
>> > You need not worry about that sort of thing.
>> > I have been in contact with
>> > both parties,
>> > and they have already taken apart the cells.
>>
>> Which parties?
>
> Please ask me again in 3 months.

I thought you didn't want to know any CF information that you could
not divulgate ;-)

Prospective investors presumably, good luck to them.

>> 6 or 7 kg would be the weight of a complete 1kW device, and the US is
>> not the only source of radioisotopes.
>
> Only one radioisotope can do this without killing the observers:
> plutonium-238.

I don't see why, it seems to me it's only a matter of shielding.

> As I said, you need $60 million worth of the stuff. I doubt
> Rossi has that kind of money. Russia has Pu-238 as well, but as I doubt
> either government will sell any of it to anyone.

I wasn't thinking about official government sales.

But as I said such a source could not be turned off, so you're right
that we need not worry about that sort of thing. Unless the device
under test cannot be turned off either, of course.

>> I agree with your cousin Peter that it can't be a problem of bad
>> English.
>
> In my experience, a language gap can cause extensive problems.

Sure, but not in the present case. In the present case it is clear
that they claim kW level excess heat, they could say this in Italian
or in Chinese it wouldn't change a thing.

Michel

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