The HUG quest for gammas and more

The HUG team has made many unglorious accomplishments in the last few weeks.

We have been making progress on the test to see if Celani wire splits hydrogen.  

And, lately we have been trying to see gamma rays while we re-pressurize our V1.3 cells.  Here are the highlights:

Gamma Detection

First, we moved the V1.3 cells - with active wires still loaded - into the big pink boxes that will maintain a very constant ambient temperature around them.  The cells are also now surrounded by the Helmholtz coils so we can define a magnetic field associated with it.

The coils are positioned to make a relatively consistent field along the entire center section of the test cell where the wire is contained.

This is how both boxes relate to eachother and to the large room in which they reside.

Then we added the Geiger counter and the NaI gamma detector into the big pink box as close to the cells as we could feasibly mount them.

Then we played.  We pressurized, we pulled vacuums, and we powered up and powered down.  Then, we saw this:

Try as we may, though, we have not seen that again in several more tests.  We have seen that the base level of the the Geiger Counter output shifts up when the detector gets warmer.

There are many more details written up in our lab notebook.

H2 Splitting Experiment

In the last couple weeks we have run tests in Vacuum, Argon, Helium, and Hydrogen with no significant temeprature difference found between thermocouples clad in Platinum, copper, or glass.  We got feedback that the platinum may not be active enough and the copper may be more active than thought.  To make the platinum a better catalyst for recombining H2 were advised to plate platinum on it.  We did.  The results is a lovely, black, nano textured surface that should have a lot more surface area.  Then we wrapped the other thermocouple with silver wire, because silver is supposed to be less catalytic than copper.  Over the weekend we will test in Ar, which achieves temperatures that are close to temperatures in a vacuum and Helium, which gives closer values to operating in Hydrogen.

All the details are in a newly spun off notebook just for this experiment

Other Experiments:

The LENR Stick experiments are on hold at the moment for lack of brain time (and the fact that we have never seen anything particularly interesting from them).  We will get back to them as time permits - possibly to help characterize absorption vs resistance for more homemade wires.