Jack, When your post came through, I was thinking about the simple experiments you did some time ago with nickel and nitinol and whether or not anything from the recent Mizuno reports could be transposed to simple electrolysis experiments, in general. It could be worth thinking about.
Obviously the two techniques are miles apart due to the low pressure, but that does not mean there could not be something of interest in trying to combine the other features and especially the mechanical application of a few milligrams of Pd onto say nitinol. In a way - the so-called Letts/Cravens effect does combine electrolysis of an electrolyte with photon irradiation and thus can be seen as going in that direction and it was mildly successful - but it does not recognize the exact wavelength of the palladium optical anomaly. That exact wavelength when used with mechanical alloying, could be more important than coherency. Obviously, the nitinol or nickel cathode could easily be rubbed with palladium first- in order to achieve a nano-layer, but that is unlikely to show anything of interest on its own. Maybe it would however, who knows. However, it is more likely that combining a mechanically applied coating to a cathode - plus also irradiating that cathode with photons at the exact frequency of the palladium optical anomaly (which is 650 nm) could give a noticeable boost. I see that eBay carries the LEDs for $2 each. They should work when submerged in electrolyte – so this strategy could be of interest just to see if the combo (rubbed Pd plus 650 nm photons) makes a noticeable difference in gas emission or heat. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ledtech-3mm-RED-Round-LED-Lamp-650nm-GaP-GaP-LT0311-41-NEW-Qty-10-/201184042320 From: Jack Cole …Best to not get too excited until there is a replication
