If you read that paper carefully, you will see
that there is no specific claim that the electric
field is necessary for the generation of those
pits, which are only indirect evidence for
nuclear reactions. In the claim cited, note that
the statement is positive and not exclusive, and
does not distinguish between electric field results and magnetic field results.
There is a class of work where magnetic fields
have been seen to have an effect on heat
generation, but this is all unconfirmed or not
well confirmed. Practically nobody has picked up
on the use of an "external electric field," and
from what has been revealed about this, both from
the point of view of theory and actual
measurement, it's highly likely that any
"electric field effect" was due, not to the
external field established, per se, as to the DC
component, but to conduciton of unexpectedly high
AC ripple (6%!) through the capacitance of the
cell walls, the expected AC current would be
roughly 400 microamps, which is even larger -- in
absolute magnitude and peak voltage -- than the
100 microamps DC that deposition begins with.
(The plating phase ends at 500 microamps DC.)
In the end, the electric field work suggests, at
most, that deposition characteristics are
somewhat enhanced by the presence of an AC
current through the electrolyte. Lots of things
influence deposition. It's difficult to control,
though it is probably easier than controlling the
production of palladium rods suitable for use in
FPHE experiments, which is practically arcane.
At 02:32 AM 7/13/2012, Eric Walker wrote:
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Abd ul-Rahman
Lomax <<mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.com>a...@lomaxdesign.com> wrote:
No effect was alleged for electric fields on
nuclear results. It's just something they did,
apparently a few times, as far as I've seen.
Â
I just read the paper (link reproduced below),
and there does appear to be a claim of an effect
for an electric field on the number of pits
observed (a proxy for nuclear results). Â The
claim is something like this: Â for Pd
co-deposition on a Ni wire substrate, no pits
were observed when no electric or magnetic field
was present. Â For the same Ni wire assembly,
high density pits are observed when an electric
or magnetic field was present. Â For Pd
co-deposition on wires of Au, Ag or Pt, neither
an electric nor a magnetic field was required to see pits.
Table 2 gives a summary of the individual runs.
 Section 3.4 goes further into the above finding.
<http://newenergytimes.com/v2/library/2007/2007BossP-UseOfCR39.pdf>http://newenergytimes.com/v2/library/2007/2007BossP-UseOfCR39.pdf
Eric
