Eric, are you referring to my experience of today? Briefly, I was impatient and wanted to try something just for kicks so I got table salt and dissolved it in water. I used gator clips to hold two nickels in the brime and connected a DC supply. I had approximately 2 amps flowing with 7 or 8 volts applied and the nickel connected to the positive terminal of my supply dissolved into the water. A penny followed it into oblivion. The nickel connected to the negative supply terminal only had its surface tarnished but not damaged significantly. It was fun, but not exactly what I had in mind!
The signal did fluctuate as material tended to cling to the nickel surface and block the flow. I was left with a nasty greenish colored precipitate. The nickel connected to the negative supply terminal remained relatively constant. Things became much better behaved when I replaced the salt with borax in a second test. I did see a flaky green material coat the underwater region of the second nickel that was connected to the positive terminal of the supply. This happened initially, but later only a dark deposit of some type remained after a couple of hours of current. I had the thought that some of the copper was taken away due to the green color of the dangling goop, so I am now reversing that coin supply in an attempt to load the possible new holes with hydrogen. This is just a wild attempt to see something new and if anything shows up I will be amazed. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Sat, Sep 22, 2012 12:38 am Subject: RE: [Vo]:Good Alloy for Celani type reaction costs 5 cents : Chuck Sites From:Eric Walker Ohmic heating is fully conservative, and if you put in10 watts of electric power and get back 12 watts of heat, then either it is measurement error… or … not exactly Joule heating. Just to clarify -- I enjoyed the report. I alsotook particular pleasure in hearing about the nickels that others ended updissolving; I didn't know that would happen. I was curious -- what werethe details of the power measurements? Was the signal steady or did it fluctuate? Did you do any kind of calibration? Eric No, no. This is completelyad lib, ex-tempo, spur of the moment, flash in the pan, down and dirty, firsttime for everything, etc. Were it not for the spontaneity of the internetgrape-vine, it would never have gotten past a few crazies. Completelyunreliable … at least as it stands on Friday. Next week, who knows? Actually – tomorrow couldbe an important milestone in the progress of the entire LENR field. Nick Reiter will strive topublish a white paper on Sat eve or maybe later – of his extraordinary earlyfindings with cobalt ions in Zeolite. This could blow Celani out of the waterin terms of robustness, and Fran Roarty may have a Casimir epiphany. I willpost a reference as soon as it is known. Once again … not proved oreven reliable … just over the threshold of minimal cyber-gossip standards….
