Aha so thats where Dennis Cravens probably got the idea to use SmCo in his famous NI Week Demo. Notably, samarium has a high percentage of radioactive isotopes which could be activate by fractional hydrogen.
From: Russ George What about the demo of Chukanov at the ICCF meeting in Hawaii many years ago. In large cylinders crushed and powdered SmCo5, magnetic metal, was cycled with hydrogen loading and deloading and produced kilowatts of apparent excess heat! From: Jones Beene 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. ____________________________________________
