IN the new IE, issue 95, there is a provocative article by Chubb and Letts. "Magnetic Field Triggering of Excess Power."
There is a lot going on in this piece, and the overall aim seems to be that they are trying to frame a theory - "IBST" - based on ion band states, which is beyond my pay scale to comprehend. And there is a lot of other interesting stuff in the article as well, but what is curious to me is the what they glossed over. If you look at fig. 9 on page 43, they get this fantastic spike in power by changing the magnetic field wrt cathode in H20. But they make a point that this has no lasting effect (beyond the 20-30 second spike). In D2O, in contrast, there is a far lesser power boost from magnetic shifting, but a lasting effect. Needless to say, the theoretical work with ion bands pertains to deuterium fusing to helium. What strikes me as odd, is that instead of considering how to optimize the huge spike in plain water, where the excess power goes up from near zero to 1,200, or five times more than with deuterium, they seem to ignore the possibility - and instead focus on deuterium, where the excess never gets far over 200. Best I can tell, this lack of interest is because hydrogen may not fit into the IBS theory. However, hydrogen offers so much more commercial opportunity - one wonders if this is something they will get back to later, or what? Sometimes nature offers you a unexpectedly lucky insight into its inner workings, the so-called "Goodyear moment" and you can stay focused on what you were doing before - or leave the blinders on, and hopefully get back to it later. It's clear that these are high quality experimenters, who have noted the anomaly but did not want to be distracted by it. and likely that they will be pursuing the unexpected blip in power with another theory soon. Maybe they would have preferred that this detail not be brought to public attention for that reason. Goodyear Moments, unlike the Hallmark variety, can be too precious to share. Jones
