On 02/22/2010 10:32 PM, Rich Murray wrote: > > Extraordinary Error -- no electric field exists inside a conducting liquid > in an insulated box with two external charged metal plates, re work by > SPAWAR on cold fusion since 2002 -- also hot spots from H and O > microbubbles: Rich Murray 2010.02.22 > http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.htm > Monday, February 22, 2010 > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/42 > _____________________________________________________ > > > > Each charged plate attracts enough ions of the opposite charge right to > the side of the conducting electrolyte against its insulating wall, until > the > charge on the plate is exactly balanced -- thus each side is a separate > charged capacitor, connected by the "wire" of the liquid. > > All the electric field exists only in the insulating walls of the two > capacitors -- no electric field exists inside the liquid.
This is true only so long as no current is flowing through the liquid. Just as in the case of a wire, if there's current flowing in a conducting liquid, then there's an electric field in the liquid, as well. (Otherwise, what do you think makes the ions move?) It's a common *approximation* to say there's no E field in a conductor but it's not generally true, save in electrostatics. My general impression is that electrolytic cells used in CF experiments do indeed have a current flowing through them. Therefore there is also an electric field present throughout the region of the electrolyte between the electrodes. :-) If the experiments were done with a superconducting electrolyte the story would be different, of course.
