Speaking of both... <g> ... in the early days of CF, Keith Johnson
at MIT proposed a number of different chemical process (at least
3) involving either nickel or palladium and an "active lattice"
rather than real fusion, to account for the excess heat being seen
(seen everywhere but at his alma mater, is the "official" story).
A few of these hypotheses, later partly abandoned, could also be
termed as beta-aether effects, which correspond to an internal
phase-change of the lattice at Casimir dimensions. But can that
hypothesis be bootstrapped into ultra-efficient electrolysis?
After all - it is a surface effect.
BTW these effects were at first thought to be conservative - one
way changes. Johnson also proposed an ultra-efficient electrolysis
cell. Mark Goldes sent me a clipping from MIT "Tech Update" Dec.
1994 which mentions this electrolysis cell, but apparently it went
no further in development, as little more turns up on google.
Apparently that cell was expected to produce OU heat (or why
bother?). I doubt if it was even built beyond a crude cell, but
was it a missed opportunity? Interestingly the cathode produced
mostly H2 but the anode was a "common manifold" for what he
thought was H2 and O2 but probably was HO-OH, or a mix of all or
the above and more, and apparently that anode gas was little
different from Brown's gas, except for the emphasis on nickel
being active. Few other details like the voltage, were given in
the abstract.
At that time Johnson believed that the excess energy released from
P&F cells was caused by the internal cyclic gamma-phase change of
atomic deuterium to dideuterium, and/or variations of the
Jahn-Teller effect. The heat produced is "latent" in that it is
produced by repeated formation of the "interstitial sublattice" of
the D-D bonds between the tetrahedral interstices in gamma-Pd-D.
Horace Heffner has a similar but better thought-out hypothesis -
the AEH. Horace is apparently on vo-sabbatical but if he is
reading any of these posts, maybe he will comment on the
implementation of AEH techniques for common manifold electrolysis.
According to Johnson, as atomic deuterium diffuses into Pd and
dideuterium diffuses out causing 9.4 eV per Pd atom of "excess
heat." However, this effect is a one-time thing unless ZPE/Casimir
serves reverse the phase change - effectively providing "infinite
energy". It should be noted that the 9.4 eV photon in the EUV
spectrum will itself split water, so that could be "part of the
package" towards ultra-efficient electrolysis, with or without
real fusion or hydrinos - and all three may be involved somehow.
At any rate - this all goes to show how ultra-efficient
electrolysis and LENR have been interconnected - joined at the hip
really, for over a decade and it is really too bad that funding
was never there to really go further into looking at using a
modified nickel-CF-light water cell to produce "common manifold
gas" and port that directly to power an ICE...
... or is that what the so-called Joe-Cell has "backed into"
serendipitously?
BTW ... "directly" being a key concept in the overall system
("common manifold gas" being ported **directly** to power an ICE)
because "recombination" not to mention "explosion" in the common
manifold is big potential problem, and we are likely dealing with
effective lifetimes of around 50 milliseconds.
Also [flash!] this thought just occurred for an improvement to the
Joe/Johnson cell ... which would be the "porous nickel" cathode of
Randy Mills... you remember, the cool experiment where he produces
hydrinos which are ported directly from a hollow porous nickel
cathode - to a mass spec... which BTW is about the most
convincing experiment Mills ever pulled off. Why did he stop
there? ... or better yet, why doesn't some enterprising young
experimenter "start" there (after all this is "commencment" week
in a few places?
Jones
