From: David Roberson
Robin, how would Rossi prevent the lead from melting at the
elevated temperatures? Do you suspect that he has it confined within a
closed shell of some kind? I do not recall seeing any place for it to hide.
>Let me add that in the appendix to the Penon report, David
Bianchini finds
>not only "no significant radiation" over background, but
actually the peak
>radiation counts are slightly less during the experiment
than background,
>indicating the apparatus shields the detector from cosmic
rays slightly.
That wouldn't surprise me if contained a couple of cm of
lead shielding.
Lead shielding is not used by Rossi anymore. That tells you something. He
has no worry of high energy radiation.
The fact that there is no radiation at all detectable (at kW thermal output)
from Rossi's device (above a threshold of tens of keV) is rather conclusive
that there is no fusion, and essentially no nuclear reaction of any kind in
the MeV range.
Even if Robin is correct about fusion with fractional hydrogen having no
prompt gamma, the occasional spallation neutron and the numerous Augur
cascades brought on by fast ions would create reactions which would be
easily detectable by Bianchini - and there would be lots of them at this
kind of thermal gain level (unless most of the energy comes from another
reaction).
The gain in Rossi's device can be nuclear, but not from any known reaction
which dumps MeV of energy. This would have been seen.
The onus is on the proponent of such a theory to demonstrate how this gain
does not involve yet another "miracle" (in addition to the overcoming the
threshold of the primary reaction).
The most likely explanation, based on all that we know about the Rossi
reaction, is that gain happens in the soft x-ray spectrum and/or the EUV
spectrum - which is not detectable with Bianchini's equipment. Hagelstein's
magic phonons can be ruled out as a local CoE violation (which he admits).
I have written Bianchini to ask that - if given another opportunity to test
- will he please look specifically for soft x-rays. That would answer many
questions, depending on the outcome.
Jones
<<attachment: winmail.dat>>
