And, by golly, here's another interesting note: the energy required to split water molecules by electrolysis is dramatically reduced in the presence of ... nickel borate.
http://phys.org/news193055742.html Jeff On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Jeff Berkowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > This morning I found a link that may be related to the borax and nickels > thing: http://www.sparkbangbuzz.com/els/borax-el.htm > > I found it, believe it or not, here: > http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-159040.html > > I had thought mods generally ban CF/LENR topics there, but I guess not > completely, or at least not completely back in 2007. (There's a mod comment > about this at the end of the thread.) > > Jeff > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Jack Cole <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> A temperature change of 60F for 3.718 oz requires the following BTUs. >>> >>> 3.178 oz / 16 oz = .199 >>> >> >> Yikes. I recommend you use SI (metric) units: joules, grams, degrees >> Celsius etc. Remember why NASA crashed a rocket into Mars. >> >> http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~gtan/bug/localCopies/marsOrbiter >> >> "Engineers on the ground calculated the size of the rocket firing using >> feet-per-second of thrust, a value based on the English measure of feet and >> inches. However, the spacecraft computer interpreted the instructions in >> Newtons-per-second, a metric measure of thrust. The difference is 4.4 feet >> per second. . . ." >> >> - Jed >> >> >
