Oui... très bizarre! ... or like many things Français: past imperfect, future conditional <g>
... as for the ashes ... that's where potash originally comes from, thus potassium - so he has found a cheap source ... and as for the lapse of the last several years, perhaps it is a symptom of the infamous LeClair LENR syndrome ... which is almost like the Reichian NOR ... or else 'French leave' as the Brits say ... From: Stephen A. Lawrence Jones Beene wrote: This turned up on Peter's Ego-Out blog: An experimenter in Québec, Canada is working on a cold fusion boiler to heat a house. He limits the capacity at 1kw of electricity input and receive 4 kw of heating, using INEXPENSIVE ingredients. You can visit his web site : http://omael.com/!_HydroPlasmol/_le_projet_.htm <http://omael.com/%21_HydroPlasmol/_le_projet_.htm> Hmmm... On the home page we have, "Nouveau en date du 22 avril 2009" ... two years ago. On the Derniers Dévelopements (most recent developments) page, the most recent date I see is June 2006. On the Historique page we see that the inspiration came from the film, The Saint (which I'm sure everyone here remembers), and the direction the author has taken comes from good ol' Jean-Louis Naudin's site, where everything always works and it all looks so easy. See: http://omael.com/!_HydroPlasmol/_projet_page_1_.htm <http://omael.com/%21_HydroPlasmol/_projet_page_1_.htm> The basic design seems to be JLN's version of Mizuno's incandescent tungsten cell, but with a substitution of an iron cathode, due to the high cost of the tungsten cathodes (which are burned up PDQ when the cell's in operation). Anode is stainless steel. Electrolyte is ... say WHAT? ... ashes from his fireplace ?? "Presqu'aussitôt je vis qu'il fallait utiliser de la cendre de foyer et une cathode en fer. Je préparai donc une solution de cendre de foyer dont la recette est bien simple. Vous remplissez au tiers un seau de cendre tamisée que vous remplissez presqu'au bord d'eau très chaude sinon bouillante." This reads like the Seven Days article on how to build a hydrogen bomb, which included such gems as centrifuging the uranium by putting it in a bucket with a long rope attached to the handle, and whirling it around and around over your head. If there's any calorimetry going on, or any other evidence that his device actually does anything besides use up electricity, I must have overlooked it. Oh, well, I got a grin out of it, at least...
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