Can you evaluate the costs of enrichment? On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote:
> Explaining Rossi. > > > > Rossi said: “We think that all the Ni participates to the reactions, even > if some isotopes should be more efficient.” “Only Ni 62 and Ni64 react.” > > > > Rossi enriches his nickel in Ni62 and Ni64. Why? Through experimentation, > Rossi found these isotopes performed best. But what is the theory behind > this result? > > > > Nickel-62 is an isotope of nickel having 28 protons and 34 neutrons. It is > a stable isotope, with the highest binding energy per nucleon of any known > nuclide (8.7945 MeV). The high binding energy of nickel isotopes in general > makes nickel an "end product" of many nuclear reactions (including neutron > capture reactions) throughout the universe and accounts for the high > relative abundance of nickel and nickel-60 (the second-most, with the other > stable isotopes (nickel-61, nickel-62, and nickel-64) being quite rare). > > > > Nickel is the least likely element to participate in a fusion reaction. > > > > If atomic holes are the place where the Rossi reaction occurs, Rossi wants > a very strong and stable support structure that can provide a three > dimensional quantum box that can produce the reaction. > > > > Under the assumption that only hydrogen reacts in the quantum box and that > many hydrogen atoms are fused in the Rossi reaction; the packing of all > those hydrogen atoms into the lattice defects of nickel is a stressful > process. If this nickel built Heisenberg box were to fail or fail apart > during the packing of hydrogen, then the reaction will fail. > > > > Nickel is the most stable element because its binding energy is maximized > among the elements. The nickel isotopes that are the most stable are Ni62 > and Ni64. Rossi enriches his nickel in these most stable and stout isotopes > because they can best support the atomic defects he uses to produce atomic > events without blowing the lattice defects apart during the stresses of the > atomic reactions and were nickel garbage would poison the pure hydrogen > reaction. > > > > > Elements on either side of nickel will perform best because of their very > high binding energies. > > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
