I think AR is smarter than this. He said Ni+p -> Cu when it knew it was not the case. With this statement, he was sure that Cu will not be taken as a potential catalyst and only a by-product.
I think also that Cu isn't the only catalyst for the reaction. There is still some more to be discovered. With Celani, the experiment shown at ICCF-17 reaches around 3W/cm² which is very good in itself but not enough for a commercial product. AR is a step further. Moreover, he claims 1200°C, how can it with Cu catalyser? The Cu will smelt immediately or there is something I didn't catch up. Soon I will test Celani's recipe. But I'm still missing the last modification of Constantan preparation. (See changes from June2012) -----Original Message----- From: Jones Beene [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: vendredi 17 août 2012 17:14 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Vo]:Stunning slide from Technova -----Original Message----- From: Jojo Jaro > Does this discovery lend credibility to Rossi with his Hydrogen Nickel (and apparently some Copper) reactor? Has Rossi ever admitted to using copper as an alloy in his design ? Apparently, in the sample tested by the Swedes, AR's ploy was to "let them show" that copper was there via transmutation. That would have been great, and such a showing would have bolstered the contention of Focardi and Rossi about the operation of the reactor. It would have made Rossi and instant hero - but the scheme completely backfired! Catch-22 - unknown to AR the Swedes went further - and tested the isotope balance and found it to be natural ! Thus their testing completely disproves AR's contention of Ni->Cu transmutation and more importantly raised serious questions about attempted manipulation of science. Consequently, we must conclude that the copper which was in there at about 10% and which is indeed close to but not exactly a good Romanowski alloy range - had to be added at some point in time as natural copper. Was it added later, or prior, to the run which was sent to the Swedes? Who can know? For this and many other reasons, I stopped paying attention to Rossi some time ago, due to this propensity for dishonesty and trickery. He is not helping to push the field forward, and has given no independent proof of gain, anyway. I think AR has seen minor gain perhaps COP=2, and that he used copper to get it, perhaps inadvertently from the copper-alloy plumbing. But that is a guess. We should apologize to Krivit on this point. Steve is/was correct about Rossi's basic dishonesty. (but he was not correct about W-L). Jones
