Horace Heffner wrote:
On Jan 5, 2006, at 8:55 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
So, what's the reaction path? What's happening in an electrolytic
cell showing excess heat with just 1H, no 2H, and what's the end
product? Do any current CF theories cover this?
Anybody got any guesses?
Yes, see:
<http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/GlowExper.pdf>
which has developed some since posting here last.
Thanks. I read through it --
But I can't claim to have absorbed or understood it all! :-)
I don't know if I go along with the fusion speculation, though.
The most plausible possible mechanism you mentioned for the blue glow
seemed to me to be the last one, in which the insulating layer, in
combination with the solution itself, is said to form a semiconductor
LED. If I understood it, you're suggesting that the insulator+solution
might form the equivalent of _two_ reversed diodes in parallel (_not_
series), and the one with the higher resistance and higher forward
voltage drop is the one associated with the blue glow. So, the glow
shows when the high-drop diode is _forward_ biased, as we would expect
from solid state LED experience. (A first glance at this situation,
before reading your paper, made it seem like the glow was associated
with a _reverse_ biased diode, which seemed harder to understand.)
Er ... at least, I think that's what you said?
