In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:24:45 -0400: Hi, [snip]
15 kW for 18 hours at 5 MeV / reaction equates to 120 mg of Nickel. IOW the amount that would actually react is 120 mg. >Man on Bridges <manonbrid...@aim.com> wrote: > >> >> In most European languages (e.g. German, Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish) >> 100,000 mg means actually 100.000 mg and vice versa. >> > >I am reviewing these statements. I now think he meant there are milligram >level amounts of nuclear-active Ni. There is about ~100 g of Ni, but most of >it is inert. He says that is the best they can do with present technology. > >It is awesome that 100 g of any material can produce 15 kW to 130 kW. If >only a tiny fraction of it -- a few milligrams -- is active, that goes >beyond awesome. It is either scary or unbelievable. What would happen if you >managed to activate, let us say, 1 ton of the stuff? That would produce the >kind of power you want for an interstellar space probe. > >Storms also says that most of material is inert in his new paper: > >http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEastudentsg.pdf > >- Jed Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
