I recently had an idea for an Ni-H gas loading reactor that uses MHD effects to cause motion of hydrogen within the lattice to trigger the LENR reaction and wanted to share it, in the hopes that somebody has the resources to actually build it and try it out. It involves sealed metal (copper?) tube electrically insulated from another metal rod that runs down the length of the inside of the tube. Nickel powder is pressed into the tube around the rod so that it forms a tube of nickel powder that provides a conductive pathway between the center rod and outer casing of the tube. Let's call this a cylindrical "nickel capacitor", with one plate of the capacitor being the outer tube and the other plate being the inner rod, with the Ni powder as a "dielectric" pressed between them. A coil of copper wire is wrapped around the tube and connected in series (or parallel might work too?) to the nickel capacitor, but is insulated from the outside of the tube to provide a magnetic field component, with an orientation parallel to the axis of the tube. A valve is provided to allow pressurized hydrogen into the tube. The tube is heated to hydrogen loading temperatures, and the nickel powder is loaded with as much hydrogen as possible. As the hydrogen is loaded, the nickel becomes more of an insulator and the tube starts to act more like a capacitor, or RC circuit, and less like a resistor.
Now, if you were to pass DC current through the circuit, what would happen? You would have a magnetic field from the coil which is aligned with the axis of the cylindrical tube, and current would flow from the center of the tube axially outwards towards the circumference, at 90 degrees to the magnetic field. This will cause an MHD effect in the loaded nickel hydride powder, moving either clockwise or counterclockwise around the center rod depending on the magnetic field polarity.
Now, what would happen if we pass AC through this circuit or switch the direction of the DC current? We would see the exact same effect, in the same direction no matter which polarity the applied voltage has since the magnetic field would reverse direction when the electric current and electric field also reverse direction. In the case of AC, they would be 90 degrees out of phase which should cause a pulsing MHD effect. The circuit should also become resonant at some frequency as well, and at that resonant frequency, i hypothesize that the LENR reaction will be at it's highest level.
I have never heard of a design quite like this to try and produce the LENR effect, and don't have the resources or materials to build and test it myself, however I would love for somebody to be able to try it out and report on the results. If it works, the only thing I ask is that this simple design be left as open-source to the community and shared with the world.
I eagerly await comments and results of this experiment 