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- From: logajan@ns.network.com (John Logajan)
- Subject: Re: Sounds plausible to me
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 06:39:52 GMT
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- Jed Rothwell <72240.1256@compuserve.com> writes:
- >I don't know why nickel cells don't work well with recombiners.
-
- >Why does a mercury bubbler + recombiner poison a nickel cell?
-
- I think this mis-categorizes Droege's experiments. It was, as I recall,
- only when the recombiner and the cell were in the calorimeter at the
- same time that the anomalous heat went away. When the recombiner was
- placed outside the calorimeter but still connected and functioning, the
- anomalous heat returned.
-
- >I just heard from another nickel experimenter who reports "substantial
- >recombination" on the cathode, along with substantial excess heat above I*V.
- >
- >My hunch is that recombination on the cathode occurs with certain cathode
- >geometries, but not with others. Perhaps it is also a function of the cathode
- >surface temperature. I do not have a handle on the problem.
-
- My own measurements of 23% shortage of gases also pointed to recombination
- (or parallel current paths.)
-
- On the basis of these recombination reports, it is now almost certain that any
- result less than I*V is "down in the noise" unless extremely careful accounting
- is made of evolved gases. There might be anomalous heat in less than I*V
- open cells, but it is competely masked by the uncertainty of the recombination
- potential.
-
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