The idea was light-heartedly tossed out that the unusual high failure-rate of Lithium-ion batteries might possibley have something to do with LENR.
This battery is an example of a well-engineered item in high mass-production. Perhaps 100 million batteries have been produced for many application (maybe far more) so the "normal" kinks or manufacturing bugs shuold have been worked out long ago - yet we have failures, and often the blame is laid on the manufacturer for a bad batch. I'm not so sure that there isn't more to the story than a manufacturing snafu. Ltihium is certainly associated with many OU experiments, though most of them are using Pd and deuterium (heavy water). But there is natural deuterium in any aqueous lithium solution, and other metals in electrodes could be active also - certainly Ni and Pt. I think I will suggest this to EarthTech - home of the "MOAC" or mother of all calorimeters - supposedly the most accuate one around - that they test a number of ltihium batteries from a "bad batch" to see if there is any heat anomaly... Jones BTW there are tons of papers on LENR/CANR having to do with lithium-D-Pd cells in OU heat mode.... and generally Hydrogen is used for the control. That raises one issue. Wouldn't it be something if - all along - the 'control' setup was OU too, and that some of the failure to clearly show OU (vis-a-vis the cotrol) relate to lack of a "real" OU control. IOW both H and D are active, but D is often more active - and this is apart from the 300 PPM of D which is naturally in water.
