[NewCandle] Fred's quest and hydrolysis update

[Nick Reiter]

Dear all,

Wow, what a rollercoaster this past week or so have
been on a number of fronts.  Still, I've tried to
persevere and inch forward on two of several
projects...

I finally have set up a test rig in the back room at
the lab where I can apply 0 to 15kV DC in either
polarity to a pair of aluminum foil parallel vertical
plates, to begin looking at some of Fred's claims.  I
played a little today with a Zr foil disc I plated
with electroless Ni, which in theory should have
provided about a 1 volt work function differential,
with Ni being negative to the outside.  I didn't see
any net attraction to the positive plate over a three
foot thread dangle, but the disc did instantly pivot
at about 5 kV (over about 15cm distance between
plates) to align it's diameter with the e-field.  I
can try batteries and nested cylinders as well.

On the salt water hydrolysis front, I have been
working with "greater than critical" Al foil roll
masses in some higher temp containers.  Man, when that
pile takes off, it takes off and heats up quick past
100C, boiling off the water pronto, more than a liter
in like 5 minutes.  Which of course makes for sloppy
steamy hydrogen.  But consarn it, its neat looking
when she blows like Moby Dick.

I took some photos and some short movie clips with my
digital camera.  The movie clips are in a .mov format.
 If anyone wants to see them I can send them offlist,
or if Keith has a magickal nook on the site somewhere
for posting such stuff, I'd go that route...

NR

--- Keith Nagel <NewCandleAdmin at ipdiscover.com> wrote:

> 
> Fred writes:
> >I want to see if Keith's dipole action wrt the fair
> weather field will pull
> >it around a pivot point.
>  
> That sounds like it would be more sensitive than
> your "acculab" scale. 
> 
> What did you say the field gradient was at sea level
> or thereabouts?
> 
> K.
> 
> 
> 
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