Jed is correct. Tritium can not be detected by an ordinary detector
because the beta is too weak. Unless the required special detector is
used, tritium would be totally missed no matter how much is present.
That is why tritium is dangerous. Nevertheless, modern methods can
detect tritium at a very low level. I suggest the Ni removed from the
hot Cat would contain enough tritium to be easily detected if the
proper method were used. I have no expectation this effort will be
made until the laboratory is found to be contaminated purely by a
chance survey done for other reasons. Rossi is playing with fire.
Ed Storms
On Jun 2, 2013, at 10:20 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote:
No. That is not correct. Tritium would have already have been
detected by
Bianchini if it was there . . .
I do not think so. Tritium would be trapped inside the cell. The
decay product is a low energy beta. If a little tritium leaks out of
the cell it is not likely to reach the detector, which only covers a
small amount of the surface surrounding the cell.
The only way Bianchini could detect this would be if Rossi makes a
cell with a high quality tube and connectors to the cell contents
and allows Bianchini to sample the gas. That is also the only way
anyone could detect an increase in deuterium or any other gaseous
nuclear product. This is a very difficult and involved thing to do.
You have to purge the tube and other hardware. You have to use
Swaglok connectors and you have to pay fanatical attention to
cleanliness. If you touch any part of metal where the gas will flow,
your fingerprint will contain more hydrogen than all of the reaction
products from several days of high temperature heat production.
Consider this: assuming the ratio of heat to helium is the same as
plasma fusion, a Pd-D automobile that runs for a year, producing as
much heat as the average gasoline burning automobile, will consume
roughly 1 g of D2O. That's 48 million miles per gallon of D2O.
- Jed
