Hi All, I've been lurking and reading about Chuck's nickel/boron electrolysis experiments, and decided to try to do a replication. I had purchased some thin thoriated tungsten welding electrodes recently to see if I could replicate some of the effects seen with the Athanor reactor and thought I'd try to put the two together.
So yesterday, I took 3 nickles and drilled 1/16" holes through them and attached them to one of the thoriated tungsten electrodes. I set this up as the cathode (-) and used another thoriated tungsten electrode without nickels for the anode. I ran this all night and did not see any heat production and the eletrolysis was very slow (gas bubbles seen only rarely). This morning, I modified the setup. I took a 1 1/2" piece of a thoriated tungsten electrode and put the nickels on it and submerged it in the solution of distilled water and borax. For the anode, I used a makeshift electrode that I had made for a previous experiment (nickel shavings soldered to a piece of solid copper wire). This change resulted in vigorous electrolysis. I am using a 12V DC 1 amp transformer for power. At 7am when the experiment started, the air temperature was 55 degrees and the water in my cell was 55 degrees. At 9 am, air temp was still 55 degrees, and the water temp in the cell was 110 degrees F. The top of the glass jar is open to the air, so there is significant heat loss there. Whether this is LENR or not, I don't know, but is certainly interesting and different from anything I've seen before with electrolysis. What I plan to do next is to setup a parallel control cell with all the same components utilizing table salt / distilled water as the electrolyte and to compare. Any thoughts, questions, or ideas on what to try next would be welcome. If there is interest, I'll update the group on my progress. Warm Regards, Jack
