[NewCandle] NMR powercell?

[Jones Beene]

Keith

> My first thought on reading Nicks comment was
> the Nuclear Overhauser Effect. You can polazize
> the conduction electrons of a metal and get
> a 1000 fold increase in polarization of the nuclei.


Ah. Brings back old memories. I will study the patents over the weekend 
and see if there are any clues.

BTW the best LENR device of all times _ON PAPER_ utilized that effect. 
It was the LERN/NMR deuterium reactor of Dennis Letts... never mind that 
he could never get it to work the way it should have (apparently).

The idea was to polarize not just a metal, but a deuterium filled metal 
or hydride (does not have to be Pd) and to then apply a NMR frequency 
(you can choose the NMR frequency for the proton, neutron or the nucleus 
as a whole. Given the lose binding of deuterium and QM probability, he 
mused that the subthermal neutron should split off - at much higher than 
QM probability.

Sounded good (great) to me too, as I was heavily into the Fusor and 
various aspects of the O-P effect at that time.

AFAIK, he never saw enough success (neutrons) to even report - and he 
may have given up on that exact plan (early 90's) --- as he has since 
then had other projects and even documented success at EPRI, laser-CF 
which also never made the kind of splash it should have.

Unless, of course he was 'paid a visit' by the MIB. Use a little 
imagination and you can probably understand why there is no greater 
proliferation risk on the planet than a successful Letts/NMR reactor.

Jones