The Rossi US patent application is quite a piece of work. He claims both fusion and fission reactions occur in the cell:
[0069] In particular, said graphs clearly show that zinc is formed, whereas zinc was not present in the nickel powder originally loaded into the apparatus said zinc being actually generated by a fusion of a nickel atom and two hydrogen atoms. [0070] This demonstrates that, in addition to fusion, the inventive reaction also provides a nickel nucleus fission phenomenon generating lighter stable atoms. [0071] Moreover, it has been found that, after having generated energy the used powders contained both copper and lighter than nickel atoms (such as sulphur, chlorine, potassium, calcium). [0072] This demonstrate that, in addition to fusion, also a nickel nucleus fission phenomenon generating lighter stable atoms occurs. He then claims that 58 g of Ni provides the equivalent energy of 30,000 tons of oil with the strangest calculation that begins with 10 MeV of energy per reaction. This is converted to mass equivalent, multiplied by Avogadro's number and, using Einstein's equation, converted back to energy! Bizarre. T
