[NewCandle] Fred's comment about battery mass.

[Keith Nagel]

Fred asked me to post this short communication on battery mass. It
struck me on reading it that if one could find a battery so constructed
that the negative terminal is on the inside rather than the outside
his idea might be fairly tested. A differential scale comparing
the two battery masses would then cancel heat / outgassing / etc effects.

K.

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NON CONFIDENTIAL: From Fred Sparber

The 322-323 gram plug-in rechargeable flashlight (4 "AA" NiCd Batteries) starts
out at 322 grams on a fresh charge sitting on the (well stabilized by
long on time)10 kg (+'- 1.0 gram) Acculab digital scale. Turning it on
causes the weight to change to 323 grams for a few minutes, then it
reverts to 322 grams, but after a 45 minute discharge it reverts to
323 grams. This is repeatable and time consuming.

The "C" and "D" dry cells only show the slight temperature sensitive
weight change only if they have been sitting for days or weeks.

My hypothesis that the Earth's MegaCoulomb negative charge in
combinatio with the much greater upper atmosphere-stratospher-space
positive charge and the resulting100 volt per meter near-earth "Fair
Weather Field" (E) is applying a force F = E*Q on the putative zero
net charge of the battery outer can still stands, along with the
notion that the field wil act on sphere-within-sphere or
cylinder-within cylinder bimetal materials where the outer material is
depleted in conduction electrons donated to the lower work function
inner material. ETC.

Too many possibilities for me to go it alone.

Fred