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Even more remarkable is Rossi's claim that he is able to "enhance" the 62Ni and 64Ni isotopes. This is the same process that countries like Iran are trying to accomplish in order to produce bomb-grade material for nuclear bombs. It is the kind of industrial process that strains the capability of entire nations. HERE is the Wikipedia article on how this is done. None of the processes are the type of thing that someone could do in their kitchen.

Uh, wrong. There is very little correspondence between what Rossi purports to be doing and uranium isotope enrichment. Uranium enrichment is not done through transmutation; it is essentially a chemical and/or physical separation process. Rossi is claiming proton and/or electron capture to transmute nickel to copper or the reverse, and those reactions release energy in the form of antiparticles and/or gamma rays.

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Uh, wrong. There is very little correspondence between what Rossi purports to be doing and uranium isotope enrichment.

You're confused.

The quote (HERE) has nothing to do with the process within the E-Cat. It refers to what Rossi claims to do to the Nickel fuel before he puts it in the E-Cat. He says:

We buy regular Ni powder, then we make a treatment of it wich changes the isotopical composition.

Changing the "isotopic composition" is exactly the same process used to enrich, for example, Uranium. Rossi claims to be able to do this in a small, non-industrial basis, for pennies a gram, and in kilogram quantities. That would be enormously more valuable a process than the E-Cat.

Also note that the analysis HERE states that there were no changes from the natural isotope ratios in either the Nickel or the Copper. This contradicts Rossi's statement about "enhancing" specific isotopes (unless, by "enhance" he means "draw little smiley faces on each atom").

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Here's a simpler explanation of the reaction, showing how 5 grams of transmuted nickel could generate 10 kW of thermal heat for 6 months, assuming 50% efficiency transforming the nuclear energy to heat:
http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=473

Actually, that article contradicts Rossi's sample, as well. It posits that ⁵⁸Ni (natural occurrence 68%) is being converted into ⁶³Cu (natural occurrence 69%). Rossi claimed (and provided a physical sample supposedly showing) that 30% of the Nickel had been transmuted into Copper within the E-Cat. If you assume that Bettini's paper is correct (and it is from Rossi's fake Journal, so Rossi must be endorsing it) then the resulting "ash" should have a seriously depeleted level of ⁵⁸Ni, and have a significant excess of ⁶³Cu. But, again, the analysis showed only the natural ratios of isotopes for both elements.

Rossi's samples of both the unburned "fuel" and the "ash" directly contradict his claims to be "enhancing" the isotope ratio fuel as well as his claim to be transmuting the Nickel into Copper. It also contradicts Bettini's conclusions.

Why doesn't Rossi's samples show any sort of non-natural isotope ratio? Or any other indications of any sort of nuclear process occuring? Because he couldn't fake that part of it. I suspect that buying enriched isotopes of Nickel and Copper would be too expensive for a scam, as well as leaving open the possibility of Rossi being caught buying specific isotopes in order to "salt" his samples.

In contrast, Miley (LINK) has found 39 different non-natural isotope ratios in the "ash" of his LENR process. That's impressive evidence of a nuclear process occurring. Rossi doesn't have anything comparable. All he has is natural Nickel and Copper, something he could have bought in a kid's chemistry set.