Wow, what a great batch of articles. The borax article in www, sparkbangbuzz.com just blew my mind. I did notice the weird electrical capacitance, but I dismissed that as a Battery effect of electrolysis, the positive ion build up on the nickel and the negative ion build up on the electrode. This article opens up a whole new can of worms; especially the glow with Aluminum under 110VAC with borax. I was running at a very low voltage AC, 18Volts, and when I turned of the lights I thought I could see a very faint glow, but I could never get it dark enough to really see and verify it.
One of the big questions at the time; 1989 was where is the Cherenkov radiation? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation). It was an important question for cold fusion since a surface reaction should generate energetic particles, that should generate photons in the D2 solution. We are talking about very low probability of fusion, so the Intensity of that radiation (if that is what it is), would be very small. But it should be there in a surface effect. That would be really interesting to try. What is also really bizarre is the RF noise from the process. I mean WEIRD! That actually might be an secondary effect like Cherenkov radiation where effects molecular quantum states. Someone put a Geiger counter on that dude. Have Fun, Chuck On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Alan J Fletcher <a...@well.com> wrote: > At 07:51 AM 10/4/2012, Jeff Berkowitz 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 > > > A great find! Here's Popular Science 1936 : > > http://books.google.com/books?id=fygDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107&dq=borax+rectifier&source=bl&ots=Mk2XMdPw_5&sig=_ObzlgyVPwIypRMcsxAdt0qNcSk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=M8VtULzBMMHviQLl34HgAg&ved=0CFwQ6AEwDA#v=onepage&q=borax%20rectifier&f=false > > So the "delay" is what they describe as "forming" (Recommended to use AC, > per Jones Beene) after which it can be used for rectification and/or > negative resistance. > > Front page : > http://books.google.com/books?id=fygDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA107&ots=Mk2XMdPw_5&dq=borax%20rectifier&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false >
