Wet Plasma LENR UK Patent 1989.

A very interesting GB patent from 1989, It is for underwater plasma fusion, using light water or heavy water, they talk about Rydberg hydrogen, UV and particle emissions and give quite a lot of detail. One of the principal inventors, C.J.Davies lives not so far from me, but he was born in 1933 so possibly no longer available. The other's I haven't traced, but their names are not familiar as part of the usual crowd of LENR suspects.

plasma fusion wet patent..pdf

I think that they had to dream up the idea of a 'secret catalyst' simply to keep actual or potential investors happy that they were buying into something that was 'uncopyable'. I suspect that it didn't exist.

Quote from Shane D.

Anyone know what happened to Chris Eccles and his invention?

I suspect he is the same Dr. Eccles who worked as an Oncology consultant and radiotherapy expert at a big London hospital - but if so he has a slim record of publications - just one that I think was partly his work, on the use of ultrasound along with radiotherapy for tumour treatment.

Good find Ahlfors. This part of the patent I found particularly interesting, since the method of electrode manufacture described results in something with a strong 'family resemblance' to a Mizuno electrode.

The Anode Process

The anode process differs from that of a conventional cell

10 electrolytic cell provided with such a cathode. The invention

also teaches a novel method of making such a cathode and

a novel method of releasing gaseous products from an SDV

cell.in that the oxygen over-voltage is rarely exceeded and the

reaction at the anode is one of the formation of a

(conductive) layer of a matrix of ferrous- and feroso-ferrous- 15

oxide over the plain steel electrode. There is some liberation,

albeit slowly, of gaseous oxygen at the anode but this is

small in comparison with the ejection of H2 from the

cathode, which occurs prolifically and often (as would be

expected given the pressure within the crystalline absorption 20

mechanism at work) with some minor violence when

observed under the microscope.

There is, obviously, some likely benefit in obtaining

hydrogen from such a process which is relatively free of

associated oxygen but, to date, the gaseous mix from experi- 25

mental SDV cells has not been such as to bring the O2 level

down below the LEL for hydrogen/oxygen mixture, and

such cells should not be regarded as being intrinsically safer

than conventional ones.

One method of creating an SDV electrode is described 30

below.

The invention discloses the provision of bi-metallic interfaces on the active, electrolyte-contacting surface of an

electrode which produces hitherto unobserved electrochemical phenomena. The use of dissimilar metallic materials on

the active surface facilitates lattice diffusion of gases within

the crystal structure of the electrode.

An SDV cell according to the invention acts as an

"over-unity" cell in respect of hydrogen gas production from

the cell. The cell operates at low voltages of no more than

1 volt, preferably no more than 0.8 volt and typically from

0.2 to 0.6 volts. However even lower operating voltages are

feasible.

What is claimed is:

1. An electrode having an active surface for contacting

and electrolyte comprising first and second metallic materials arranged to provide a plurality of first metallic material

to second metallic material interfaces at said active surface,

wherein said first metallic material comprises steel and said

second metallic material comprises nickel.

The electrode which is to become the cathode in an SDV

cell is made by taking a sheet of ordinary mild steel as the

substrate 2 and creating on its surface a series of

irregularities, in the form of trough regions 4 and raised

regions 5 (see FIG. 1), by etching the steel in a bath of

concentrated (50-55%) sulphuric acid. The natural impurity

2. An electrode according to claim 1, wherein said first

metallic material comprises a substrate of the electrode and

said second metallic material is an electroplated layer over

35 regions of the substrate.

3. An electrode According to claim 2, wherein said

substrate has an uneven surface with exposed, unplated

raised portions and trough portions plated with said second

metallic material, the unplated raised portions and plated

of most commonly available mild steel ensures that etching

will take place in a random and irregular manner. Mostly,

this is caused by the presence of finely divided granular

alpha-ferrite which appears to be preferentially attacked by

the acid.

40 second metallic material providing the said active surface.

4. An electrode according to claim 3, wherein the said

raised portions of the substrate have an average spacing

After inspection of the surface and the determination of distribution of from 0.03 mm to 0.05 mm.

the average size of the nodes or raised regions on the

roughened steel (optimally these should be at 0.03-0.05 mm 45

distribution), the surface is passivated in concentrated nitric

acid and further passivated in a chromic acid bath.

The roughened surface of the steel substrate 2 is then

given a 25-micron coating 6 of nickel by the "electroless"

process, also known as auto-catalytic chemical deposition 50

(see FIG. 2). This plating process provides accretion of

deposited nickel in the trough regions 4 and thinner deposits

of nickel on the raised regions 5.

After coating, the electrode is machined or ground, e.g.

using a linishing sander and 120 grit silicon carbide paper 55

belt, to remove the "peaks" of the plated raised regions 5 and

in particular to remove the plated nickel from these "peaks"

so as to expose the steel of the substrate 2 (see FIG. 3). In

this way a plurality of metal-to-metal interfaces are created

on the active surface of the cathode between the nickel 60

plated regions on the trough regions 4 of the substrate 2 and

the exposed steel surfaces of the substrate. Constant microscopic inspection is required to determine the existence of

the correct bi-metallic interfaces on the active surface of the

electrode. If the electrode is to be used with only one active 65

surface (SAS electrode), no treatment is given to the other

plated surface, which will remain electrochemically inactive

5. An electrode according to claim 1, wherein said first

metallic material comprises mild steel.

6. An electrode according to claim 1, wherein said second

metallic material comprises a matrix of nickel and chromlUm.

7. An electrode according to claim 1, wherein the electrode is generally fiat and has an active surface on each of

its opposite sides.

8. An electrolysis cell for obtaining the release of gaseous

products by electrolysis, comprising an electrolyte, an anode

and a cathode in the form of an electrode according to claim

1.

9. A cell according to claim 8, wherein the electrolyte

comprises dilute sulphuric acid.

10. A cell according to claim 8, wherein the electrolyte

comprises lithium sulphate monohydrate, nickel sulphate

hexahydrate, chromium sulphate or palladous chloride.

11. A method of obtaining release of gas from an electrolysis cell according to claim 8, comprising applying a

decomposition voltage of no more than 1 volt across the

anode and cathode of the electrolysis cell.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the step of applying

the decomposition voltage comprises applying a decomposition voltage of no more than 0.8 volts.

Well, Stanley Meyer, eat your heart out. This guy is either a miracle worker or deluded.

I must admit btw, that i have been thinking about the production of hydrogen by electrophoresis...and this is effectively the same thing.

Zephir_AWT - I remember you posting this - I wonder where they went? (And Lipinski too)-