In reply to Rich Murray's message of Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:48:32 -0700: Hi, [snip] >Rossi on his blog explains that the heat output during the demo came >from the nuclear reaction of several picograms of Ni -- about 3 X >10E-12 gm ... a millionth of a microgram, while the mass of the >nuclear reacting H would be 1 atom of H for each atom of Ni reacting, >with the most common isotope being Ni62, so the H mass used would be >several times (1/62) = about 3 X .016 picogram = about 5 X 10E-14 gm. > This is simply wrong. If the device produced 6kWh of energy during the test, then that would require the transmutation more like milli-grams than picograms of Ni. Rossi's sums are wrong in the patent too. However the actual mass would only change by the energy output divided by c squared.
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