Jack, Nitinol is a interesting choice since both nickel and titanium are proton conductors with a history of positive results in LENR - and the wire is commonly available. Plus there is the strange "memory" effect (which could be utilized for audible resonance).
It appears from your other pages that you've done simple calorimetry to see if there is evidence of thermal gain using nickel, tungsten etc. Even though those results were apparently inconclusive, does Nitinol appear to give markedly different results from the others? I said "different" instead of better - since it should be mentioned that in Ahern's testing for EPRI there was another anomaly - cooling. IIRC it was an alloy of nickel and titanium (embedded in zirconia) which provided the appearance of endotherm - the mysterious disappearance of input energy. It might help to do an acid etch of the wire as the endotherm is associated with nano-porosity (and Casimir - which can be both an attractive force or repellent - depending on geometry changes) If you were seeking anomalous endotherm, which could be equally important (theoretically) to gainful exotherm, the experiment would probably need different parameters - such as lower voltage DC and surface treatment for nanostructure - but it could be worth the effort. Adding energy to achieve a lower thermal state may seem to be counterproductive at first glance, but perhaps it is the one detail that will make everything understandable. There was a bit of evidence that the quantumheat.org folks saw a bit of endotherm and were trying to explain it way - rather than to deal with it as part of the package of Ni-H oddities. Jones From: Jack Cole I've been conducting a new series of electrolysis experiments with Nitinol (56% nickel/44% titanium). I did a little video demonstrating nitinol's effect of contracting when heated while running an electrolysis experiment. I'm using KOH as the electrolyte. May be of interest to some here. Seems to me that this alloy may be promising for LENR. http://www.lenr-coldfusion.com/2013/01/23/automated-android-electrolysis-sys tem-nitinol-demonstration/ Best regards, Jack
