The reactor will run for as long as the micro powder remains nickel, as long as the nickel is not Ni61, a non zero spin nucleus. I still believe that hydrogen is the fuel that is being consumed. Rossi has not yet found a way to protect his powder and lithium from destructive transmutation.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Robert Ellefson <vortex-h...@e2ke.com> wrote: > > One observation that I'm noting in reviewing the data is the remarkably > complete conversion of nickel isotopes to Ni68, (from 3.9% in the starting > fuel to 98.7% in the ash) and the corresponding nearly-complete transition > of lithium-6 from 8.6% fuel to 92.1% ash abundance ratios. Given that the > ash sample was taken at an arbitrarily-defined time point, which happened > while the operating conditions of the reaction were stable, if not > improving, then I believe this indicates that the reaction is a cyclic one, > which decays to the measured ash isotope ratios while the reaction is > stopping. > > If the reaction were based on a linear consumption of reactants, then it > would be truly miraculous to have stopped the reaction and sampled the ash > just when Nickel-68 had reached 98.7 enrichment. Given that there was no > trending reduction in the output power prior to the ash sampling, I think > this clearly indicates that we were not approaching the depletion point of > the reactants, and that the heat must be produced as part of a durable > cycle. This could indicate a much, much longer-lasting fuel charge is > possible than the 6 months figure which has been floating around without > apparent basis-in-fact. > > -Bob Ellefson > > >
