BTW Bob - you suggested a simple way to look for the Ni+Li reaction. There is a simpler way yet... get hold of some those exploding lithium batteries... you know ... the one's with nickel electrodes. Look for 69Ga in the debris field of the next Boeing Dreamliner crash.
Krivit is on the case http://news.newenergytimes.net/2013/01/17/are-nuclear-reactions-causing-boei ng-dreamliner-battery-fires/ but he would face a huge problem if this turned out to be the Rossi effect :) Bob, Just so you know, your insight is not being ignored - although you may reasonably suspect it is, since there are few comments. Lots of people are trying to come to grips with this data, as preposterous as it may seem at first glance. But the main problem remains: these are very energetic reactions with extreme Coulomb barriers. Obviously, if Ni-62 is the key to the Rossi effect - which is what his patent would suggest, and it fused with Li7, then there is a putative case for gallium-69. Beyond that, there is no support for anything close to this in the literature. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Ellefson Given the results of the SIMS analysis from the Lugano report, particularly as detailed in this posting: http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg98596.html I believe that it is possible to evaluate the nuclear activity of candidate fuel samples simply by sputter-cleaning them as part of a ToF-SIMS analysis. If researchers with access to such analytic equipment were willing to run the experiment, I believe that a successful replication of Rossi's reaction can be observed occurring with before-and-after spectra of the fuel. So, skip the reactors, start evaluating powders in the SEM itself! I sure hope this helps, -Bob Ellefson
