That is a very imaginative suggestion Jones. I like it. 8-) FG
At 09:13 am 23/10/2005 -0700, you wrote: >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.
