Bob--Bob Cook here Your comments are revealing. I believe quantum systems that are big enough to handle the energy fractionation that Hagelstein identifies in his lectures are a requirement for any solid state nuclear reaction. A thermal conductor to get the heat out is also necessary. These two objectives are probably at the heart of Rossi's design.
Of course the Kim BEC theory may occur at discrete locations in the Ni creating new quantum systems during the reactor operation. However maintaining such nice locations for months of operation for the BEC's to form is questionable. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Higgins To: [email protected] Cc: Bob Higgins Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 7:43 AM Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems Rossi has stated that he starts with 10 micron sized particles (since identified as a nickel powder produced from the carbonyl process), adds a catalyst (widely believed to be a nanopowder of some kind), and processes the mix "in a way that leads to amplified tubercles on the surface". A search of tubules will not find the reference, he used "tubercles". I have replicated the growth of tubercles by doing just what Rossi described. Begin with micron scale nickel powder (from the carbonyl precipitate process), add a nanopowder, mix, and heat in an oven with cycling H2, Ar, O2 process gas. The result is a porous structure of "tubercles" with nanowires growing from the surface. I suspect that both the nanowires and the tubercle structure are indicators that I am using similar processing of the powder mix as Rossi, but are not themselves the LENR NAE. The observation is that when processed in that manner, there are plenty of NAE somewhere. It is easy to believe that this structure (from the SEM pictures) will be rife with nanocracks as Dr. Storms suggests for the NAE. In fact, the NAE are likely to be features you cannot see under the SEM rather than the features you can see. Bob Higgins On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: As Eric realizes, this is a critical issue for anyone wanting to replicated Rossi. In fact, the material shown in the previous image, could indeed be called "micron sized" and one would not be dishonest. However the importance of hollow nickel tube could be the sine qua non of the Rossi scheme. Rossi has a history in his revelations, at least back when he was in full fund-raising mode, of first providing a bit too much information (inadvertently) and then backtracking later to try to minimize the damage. Thus, we often see conflicting statements which can be rationalized if one understands the history of "Rossi-speak". This "tubule" mystery could be an exemplary example of what I am talking about. But did he actually ever say it? From: Eric Walker Does anyone have the citation for Rossi's nickel lattice having "tubules"? Cannot find it. But check this out. Yes, please. If anyone has a reference to Rossi using nickel with "tubules," "nanotubules," "nanohairs," etc., please provide it. My understanding is that he uses micron-sized nickel powder, treated in some way, and rather than something "nano-". There are carbon nanotubes, of course, and Rossi, as far as anyone knows, does not use them. It's remarkably difficult to pin the precise details down and keep them pinned down. They keep on moving around and morphing through some kind of process of entropy.
