Particle 1 was analyzed and found to contain Ni62. Its photo shows that its tubercles were not melted and the particle was therefore cold. Your reasoning must be reversed. Particle 1 came from the COLDEST part of the reactor. The induction coil is also cold and must have been located close to the nickel powder.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Following on to this line of thought ... Given the temperatures that the > reactor had been operating in actual operation, many of the constituents of > the fuel powder would have either melted, vaporized, or sintered to the > inside of the reactor core vessel. Thus, when removing the ash for test, > the components that emerged may be completely unrepresentative of the > active components which may have remained firmly attached to the inside of > the reactor vessel. Perhaps only more benign and refractory components > could have been extracted after the experiment. Thus, the analysis of this > ash material should not necessarily be directly compared with the powder > input at the beginning of the experiment as a before and after reaction > analysis. > > Given this, the question arises, did the starting powder that was supplied > by Rossi as "about 1 g" actually represent the active powder of the > reaction? If the reactor had been used before, its ceramic core may not > have been virgin. There could remain remnants, perhaps intentionally active > remnants, sintered to the inside of the reaction tube. In which case, Rossi > may have supplied only the consumables - perhaps mostly hydride. This would > make analysis of the input powder of less value because it is not the whole > fuel for his reaction. > > My question is, "Had the reactor used in this experiment ever been used by > anyone for an active LENR test prior to the test conducted by your group? > Conversely, was the reactor virgin in the respect of having never before > been used for a LENR reaction?" > > Of course, this will still not entirely answer the question of whether the > input powder was actually representative of the entire active LENR > material. It could be that the active Ni portion had already been sintered > onto the inside of the reactor vessel as part of preparing the apparatus. > Then Rossi would only have added the consumable portion at the beginning of > the experiment. Even if this active material had been sintered onto the > inside of the reactor, it would not have been active in the dummy > experiment without the consumable portion having been added. > > I can imagine Rossi essentially thick film coating his active Ni powder > onto the inside of the central alumina tube as part of creating the > reactor. Perhaps this would also include an alpha alumina washcoat that > would render the alumina impermeable to hydrogen. > > Bob Higgins > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> In a recent email, Ed Storms observed that the sample of the Lugano ash >> that was tested was probably not at all representative of the material that >> was active in the reactor core. At the temperatures measured, many of the >> materials would have melted (or vaporized), and those that did not melt >> were sintered; probably sintering themselves to the walls of the inner >> alumina shell. Because of this, anything that could have emerged as a >> powder after the test when the vessel was opened would not be a >> representative sample of the true active ash which would have remained >> inside firmly attached to the walls of the reactor vessel. What was tested >> as ash is likely inert or random left-over inert slag in the reactor. >> >> Bob Higgins >> >> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Robert Ellefson <vortex-h...@e2ke.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Recall that the bulk results show 57% Li-6 enrichment, vs. 92% surface >>> enrichment. I believe the higher fraction of Li-6 on the surface is the >>> result of starvation of the reaction cycle resulting in an excess of >>> Li-6 as >>> compared to the steady-state balance during operation, which is >>> reflected in >>> the bulk composition. >>> >>> Read these messages for further details: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/msg98020.html (msg >>> has an >>> error, should read ni62, not ni68) >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/msg98350.html >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/msg98422.html >>> >>> -Bob >>> >>> >
