Has anyone seen such a sphere? Nothing seen by me indicates that level of sophistication. Small spheres are tricky to make and the outward of H2 pressure would possibly be more of a problem than a central tube.
An axial copper tube, even having lost mass to migration, would withstand a fairly high external pressure, especially with pressurized water flowing through it. -----Original Message----- From: Terry Blanton On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > It looks to me like the water inlet goes through the center of the reactor. > This would likely be a copper pipe along the axis, surrounded by the nickel > powder. Copper ions would immediately start to migrate when heat was applied > to the outside of the reactor. Did you enlarge the pictures? There is lots > of detail. The water has to go through the reactor, and the simplest way is > a Cu pipe down the axis. Why is that problematic? > > The conditioning time could be a day or two - and this would be needed > anyway. Arata, Kitamura, Takahashi all talk about conditioning the powder. > > Of course, Rossi might be trying to disguise the fact that he is 'seeding' > the nickel from the start, in addition. Because that is not what I envision. I envision a SS reactor vessel enclosed within a copper sphere attached to a copper pipe. The reactor vessel is suspended inside the copper and the water passes outside the SS reactor. Water does not enter the reactor vessel but passes around it. Otherwise, how do you maintain the H2 pressure? T
