>From an electromagnetic point of view, nickel and lithium perform the same no matter how many neutrons are included in their nuclei.
The testers should not have run the reactor at 1400C. That high operational temperature would have partially melted many of the nickel particles thereby reducing the power output of the test reactor. Melted particles are pictured in appendix 3 of the test results. The testers may have wanted to increase the COP to as high a level as they could push the reactor to provide. This may have had a reverse effect and the reactor might have begun to fail. To keep the test positive, this could be the reason for the early test termination. On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is correct thinking and a real path to truth. >> >> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:23 AM, Alain Sepeda <alain.sep...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> tthe isotopic shift observed is probably only a side effect of the real >>> reaction. >>> from others LENR experiments one can suspect that hydrogen is the fuel, >>> and that Ni is just modified. >>> >>> that the surface of the powder is pure Ni62 maye be simply that it is >>> cooked by the reactions, stay stable, and work anyway. >>> >> > I agree this is the most plausible-sounding scenario proposed here so far. > It beats my suggestion that only the surface layers of material transmuted. > > So-called host metal transmutations have been observed in several > experiments. We assume they are "host metal" rather than the main energy > generating reactions. > > - Jed > >
