Without a direct answer to your question in post#56, this seems like a continuation of a decades-long delusion on the subject of cold fusion.
If you ever get an answer, please ping me.
Thanks.
Yes, it's a scam. The main stable isotopes of Ni are Ni-58 and Ni-60. If the reaction is as claimed, the result would be Cu-59 and Cu-61, both of which are unstable and decay back to Ni (by emitting a positron).
The smoking gun in the article I cite is in the penultimate paragraph:
Then, we may add that the measurements made in Sweden showed that the copper purportedly created by nuclear transmutation in the E-Cat has the same isotopic composition as natural copper. That is simply not possible.
Exactly. The purported copper produced by the reaction was a fraud, plain and simple.