Jones wrote, > > > --- Fred the Anonymous <g> writes, > > > putting a few pounds of copper, aluminum, or steel, > wire sized to get an > > optimum electron drift speed to entrain the (*e-) > particles, in series with any > > of the OU electrolysis experiments will boost the OU > yield. > > > How does one "size" the different kinds of wire to get > the optimum drift speed? > Easy, after I looked it up. :-) Current density J = amperes/area. For a 0.001 meter diameter copper wire carrying 20 amps J = 20/0.25 (Pi)(0.001)^2 = 2.54e^7 amperes/meter^2 At N = 8.5e^28 free electrons/meter^3 for copper: Then v = J/N*q = 2.54e^7/8.5e^28 * 1.6e^-19 = 1.87e^-3 meters/sec or 1.87 mm/sec.
But you don't want to spend your OU money on I^2R heat loss. > > And... if there is some fundamental difference in > either the free electron, or the (*e-) triad, compared > to when either is bound in the valence electron cloud, > then how does one get the free variety "into" a > conductor efficiently ? ... VDG belt ? > Nope, just assume that Nature put it there. Even a neutral gas impinging on a metal surface can exchange electrons with it. Diffusion, chemical processes, radioactivity etc., over billions of years... Fred the Anonymous
