In reply to Jones Beene's message of Tue, 30 Nov 2021 22:02:46 +0000 (UTC): Hi Jones, [snip] > Robin, your comment brings up an interesting possibility - at least for > water-splitting... given the large amount of effort that has gone into > efficient electrolysis over the past few decades > >There is copious data to indicate that KOH electrolysis can exceed "unity" ... >by a small amount, but "how" this controversial result could ever happen in >practice, is far from clear. Is there an unexpected (non-thermal and perhaps >photonic pathway such as EUV ) mechanism at work?
I think that Mills is probably a better explanation in this case. > >Is there any chance that NMR resonance itself transfers a few eV of >mass/energy locally from the K nucleus to the chemical bond of water, which >then results in splitting off a proton ?? And after long use then results in a >novel kind of nuclear reaction as a book-balancer... changing the nuclear >dynamics from push to pull > > >Robin wrote: >If I understand this correctly, the reaction of K40 + e- => Ar40 should yield >about 2.5 MeV. However I suspect that most >of the energy would be carried away, never to be seen again, by the neutrino. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk <mixent...@aussiebroadband.com.au>
