Bingo. You just hit on something important.
Having seen similar effects in simliar setups, I have decided the overunity depends on the field gradient at the cathode. I have noted before how larger cathodes seemed cold and unresponsive, but I never made the connection until now. Intuitively, yes, but not quantitatively. Lower volatge with smaller radius is definitely a factor here. There is a sweet spot where voltage/radius begins to yield energy. Imagine: you could probably set a lower practical limit but I have been stymied by the practical limits of material failure at high energies. By the way, Roadrunner/AOL stinks I have had so many problems with those folks and their intransigent censorship. They don't even bounce emails - they just black-hole stuff. Keep going > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Reiter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 2004 July 31 00:14 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: sam faile update and boundary electrolysis > > > Gentlemen, > > OK... finally have managed to get back on-list. > E-scribe won't accept mail from my home roadrunner > account, and it did something bizarre with my hotmail > too. > > First, an update - an odd one - re: Dr. Sam Faile. > After the devastating fire at his old Cincinnati > apartment in June, Sam managed to find a new abode > nearby, and was even able to finally salvage the > better part of his lab books and notes. Some were too > badly destroyed, and some did genuinely seem to go > permanently missing after the ATF, FBI, and local > police finished their grilling. Nevertheless, it > formed a seed for Sam to start over on his speculative > writing and tinkering with geometric coils, etc. He > was able to keep his day job at Krogers without > missing a beat. Lemonade from lemons. However, about > a week and a half ago the apartment building right > next to Sam's new one was gutted by fire of unknown > origin. As you might imagine, even the most > un-paranoid of New Energy scientists would be unnerved > by this near-second round. But for now - Sam creeps > nervously into the future. > > Now on an experimental note, I wanted to bring > something to the group's attention that I had been > fiddling with for a few days. I've been seeing a cool > effect - maybe an interesting one - with simple beaker > electrolysis. Here is the basic design: > > In a 100 ml beaker, I had a quantity of typical > electrolyte, in this case 5M KOH. Stainless steel > strip electrode for the anode, and for the cathode a > very thin (maybe 36 to 40 ga) stainless steel hair > wire. I had hooked it up to a DC power supply that > was putting out 50VDC with a slight >1V ripple. neat > thing is this - with power connected via clip leads > and turned on, I lower the hair wire point first into > the electrolyte. As the wire breaches the surface, a > conformal boundary layer type sheath seems to depress > along with it, and some small amount of hissing > bubbling occurs. However, most dramatically, the wire > is seen to be surrounded by a flickering violet plasma > within the sheath. Current drawn at this point is > minimal, maybe .5 ampere. If one gets the wire tip > too close to the anode, the boundary layer / sheath > apparently pops, and the wire becomes fully wetted, > and normal bubbling electrolysis occurs, with no > plasma. If one lowers the wire into the electrolyte > BEFORE turning the power on, then just normal > electrolysis occurs when voltage is applied. The wire > has to be inserted through the liquid surface from > air. Going up in diameter past about 1/16" stainless > thin rod, the effect no longer works. Just bubbles, > and H2 and O2. > > I repeated the effect with NaOH. Same thing, but now > the plasma is a delightful orange yellow from the > sodium! Going back to KOH, I see the violet is > probably a function of the potassium spectrum. > Diluting the KOH electrolyte below about 1M the effect > disappears. The effect does NOT work with NaCl, > lithium sulphate, potassium carbonate, or KCl > solutions. It does work with HCl:H2O, HNO3, and H2SO4 > solutions. Hydrogen necessary? > > I reversed polarity. The effect does not occur when > the wire is at anode potential - it pops a little and > just bubbles normally. The power supply is not > variable (any longer!) so I don't yet know what the > minimum voltage is for this. neato plasma at 50 V is > pretty cool. > > I wonder what a little D2O would do...? > > Anyone ever play with this effect, that seems to > relate to a charged sheath around a small diameter > cathode wire in heavily laden hydrogen containing > electrolytes? I need to fire up the Geiger counter at > this point, I suppose. > > All the best, > > Nick Reiter > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > >
