Plasmoid formation does not necessarily need water as a formation medium. It sounds like you used air as the medium.
The plasmoid can take on a number of forms. Your experiment falls into the area of the EV. See this document for a breakout of the many faces of plasmoid phenomena: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=8&cad=rja&ved=0CFgQFjAH&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffreeenergynews.com%2FDirectory%2FElectrolysis%2FMoray_King%2FMorayKingTalk2ForNPA.ppt&ei=JJKmUNSCJObI0AGvyYH4Cw&usg=AFQjCNGPEXf2WI68OdtvbrZ_Hz3VC4TQ4A Specifically see “plasmoid transmutation” a describing the results of your experiment most closely. By the way, I seem to be a fellow traveler intellectually with Moray B. King in many regards and not have known it until I saw this reference. But I still draw separation between zero-point-energy and coulomb barrier lowering. I will need to look into King’s thinking more closely. In other words, Zero point energy produces a subset of the LENR activity. Coulomb barrier lowering also produces many instances of LENR activity. But the common cause is coherent charge organization and its quantum mechanical consequence. Cheers: Axil On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Michael Foster <[email protected]> wrote: > Years ago, I did similar carbon arc experiments because I thought this > would be the best way to demonstrate the possibility of nuclear > transmutation by other than conventional means. I used spectroscopic grade > carbon rods as well. Far more iron was created than could be accounted for > by contamination. The only difference was that no water was used and there > was probably more iron made as a percentage of the original carbon weight. > I had a powerful magnet near the arc, so possibly the iron was removed > before it could revert. That hypothesis is rather half baked but maybe a > magnet should be used in the underwater version to see if the results are > different. > > Since there was no water, I think the idea of this being the results of > cavitation doesn't seem valid. > > M. > > --- On *Thu, 11/15/12, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> > Subject: [Vo]:Papers about carbon arc experiments > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012, 1:11 PM > > > I uploaded two papers about carbon arc experiments: > > Singh, M., et al., *Verification of the George Oshawa Experiment for > Anomalous Production of Iron From Carbon Arc in Water*. Fusion Technol., > 1994. *26*: p. 266. > > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/SinghMverificati.pdf > > > Sundaresan, R. and J. Bockris, *Anomalous Reactions During Arcing Between > Carbon Rods in Water*. Fusion Technol., 1994. *26*: p. 261. > > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Sundaresananomalousr.pdf > > > The quality of these scans is not good. By the time I realized there was a > problem I had already thrown out the original paper. Sorry about that. > > Because there are OCR errors in the text that may copy the corrected > abstracts here. This is from the LENR-CANR index system, which you see when > you click on the plus sign: > > Author Singh, M. > > Co-authors Saksena, M. D., Dixit, V. S., Kartha, V. B. > > Title Verification of the George Oshawa Experiment for Anomalous > Production of Iron From Carbon Arc in Water > > Publisher Fusion Technol. > > Date Uploaded 2012-11-15 > > Abstract A direct current arc was run between ultrapure graphite > electrodes dipped in ultrapure water for 1 to 20 h, The graphite residue > collected at the bottom of the water trough was analyzed for iron content > by a conventional spectrographic method, It was found, in the first few > experiments, that the iron content in the graphite residue was fairly high, > depending on the duration of the arcing, The experiment was repeated > initially six times, and the results showed large variations in > iron content (50 to 2000 parts per million (ppm)) in the carbon residue, In > the second series of experiments, which were done with the water trough > fully covered, the amount of iron in the carbon residue decreased > significantly (20 to 100 ppm), Here also there were large variations in the > iron concentration in the residue, although the experiments were performed > under identical conditions, Whether iron is really being synthesized > through transmutation from carbon and oxygen as suggested by George Oshawa > or is getting concentrated to different degrees through some other > phenomenon is not currently clear, The iron in the carbon residue was also > analyzed mass spectrometrically for the abundance of its various isotopes, > and the results were more or less the same as that of natural iron, Besides > iron, the presence of other elements like silicon, nickel, aluminum, and > chromium was also determined in the carbon residue, and it was found that > the variation of their concentrations followed the same pattern as that of > iron. > > > > Author Sundaresan, R. > > Co-authors Bockris, J. > > Title Anomalous Reactions During Arcing Between Carbon Rods in Water > > Publisher Fusion Technol. > > Date Uploaded 2012-11-15 > > Abstract Spectroscopically pure carbon rods were subjected to a carbon > arc in highly purified water. The arc current varied from 20 to 25 A and > was passed intermittently for several hours. The original carbon contained > ~2 parts per million (ppm) iron, and the detritus contained up to 286 ppm > of iron. The carbon rods remained cool 10 the touch at >2 cm from their > tips. Adsorption of iron from water or the surrounding atmosphere was > established as not being the cause of the increase of iron. There is a weak > correlation between the iron formed and the time of passage of current. > When dissolved O2, was replaced by N2 in the solution, no iron was formed. > Hence, the mechanism > > 26C12 + 28O18 -> 26Fe56 + 2He4 > > was suggested as the origin of the iron. The increase in temperature of > the solution was consistent with expectation based on this reaction. > > > - Jed > >
