but wait, theres more (best Billy Mays tin cup plea) In another experiment you may not have heard of - from Bockris and Sundaresan in 1994 - it was shown that magnetic stimulation boosted excess heat substantially in a Pd-D electrolysis cell. This line of work leads up to the Letts-Cravens effect wrt understanding the influence of a magnetic field on LENR.
After the cathode had been charged with deuterium for 48 hours at a current of 80 mA, the cell was placed in the field of a permanent magnet of 200 Gauss strength. The cell electrolyte temperature rose to 5°C above ambient after 230 seconds. After 576 seconds, the magnet was replaced by two Neodymium magnets with a 800 Gauss field. The temperature immediately started increasing and reached 13.5 °C above ambient in about 15 minutes and remained constant. The temperature returned when the magnet was removed [end of Bockris quote] The $64 question - why isnt a magnetic field fully employed in the glow-stick experiments? By fully employed it is meant that: yes, the heater wire does provide a minimal field but increasing the field strength by an order of magnitude could be beneficial. relevant comment: those who do not remember the past cannot benefit from its insight- paraphrase of famous Santayana quote, which is the logic behind the LENR-CANR library. ____________________________________________ From: Jones Beene Remarkable results appeared in 1999 which were not exactly LENR (but verified by three independent German laboratories according to Mallove by way of Bockris two of the preeminent names in LENR, following P&F). These results were obtained by Mündt, as reported by Petermann - but not published in English and the full name of Mündt is not certain as he appears nowhere else in the LERN-CANR library. Thus, we have 3rd hand information which comes out now, 17 years after the fact, and for an oddball reason: since it is reminiscent of the Holmlid effect. Plus, the experiment begs to be replicated somehow. Mündt measured the input and output energy in the anaerobic combustion of trash (mixed hydrocarbon with no oxygen). The initial heat input to trigger combustion is provided by household light bulbs. As has been mentioned earlier here, the common incandescent light bulb provides its peak output at the photon equivalent of 1200C, at low efficiency. This temperature 1200 C appears to be a trigger for excess heat in the glow-tube reactor. That is the cross-connection (as arcane as it is). The German vessel was built to withstand pressures formed by the products of the reactions as a result of heating by incandescent light from outside the reactor and a window admitting light. We do not know the exact composition of the fuel or whether alkali catalysts were used. The thermal output was claimed to be 2.7 times the input, but after all this is combustion since there are chemical redox reactions taking place. The aim is to get rid of trash with a minimum of CO2. The fact there was apparent gain was thus not appreciated since it could be all chemical. The big news at the time was that radioactivity was detected. The development of a magnetic field was also reported. I wish there was more to the story, in light of <g> new revelations by Holmlid and the Parkhomov replicators. The paper is entitled: Is the Occurrence of Cold Nuclear Reactions Widespread Throughout Nature? By John OM. Bockris and Eugene F. Mallove. I have the suspicion that if Gene and John were still around today, they would have been as impressed with Holmlid as many of us are and this story would not have been buried in an archive.
