Another thought On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Nick Reiter wrote: > > In the meantime, I kept the voltage the same and went > > to an even smaller diameter (about .001") hair wire > > for the cathode - wow. In KOH, the plasma has now > > moved from the violet "potassium" color to a bright > > blue intense sheath along the wire.
The near-field Intensity around a 0.001" wire would be a millionvolts/meter at 12.7 volts and the neutrino flux of over 10^14/m^2/sec still gives a decent flux, even through the small wire. There is mounting evidence relating to the admittedly remote possibility that neutrino oscillation is magnified in a high gradient electric field (such as the ionosphere, or under HV transmission lines) which then creates an enhanced cross-section for nuclear interaction (two step process). This would, of course not explain why some solutions work (seem to be far more active) and similar ones do not. Is there a common denominator in the ionic solution which work? For instance, if K always worked as an active material, one might be inclined to suspect the hydrino, since K is a Mills' catalyst. But here, K sometimes doesn't work (KCl). ...is the hydroxyl radical always present in active solutions? Jones BTW did you remember that Calytor gets his results using very small wires (Fred Sparber did, and reminded me of this): http://www.nde.lanl.gov/cf/tritweb.htm "Small diameter wires (100 - 250 microns) have been used with gas pressures above 200 torr at voltages and currents of about 2000 V at 3-5 A. By carefully controlling the sputtering rate of the wire, runs have been extended to hundreds of hours allowing a significant amount (> 10?s nCi) of tritium to accumulate. We will show tritium generation rates for deuterium-palladium foreground runs that are up to 25 times larger than hydrogen-palladium control experiments using materials from the same batch." Yes I suspect the experiment would greatly improve when heavy water is substituted for light water... and there is some reason to believe that "reactor grade" heavy water is not necessary... in fact a fairly low enrichment might function better...
