The purpose of this work

    LENR - Low Energy Nuclear Reactions - Cold Controlled Nuclear Fusion is a phenomenon that, despite numerous positive experiments around the world, official science continues to deny. Therefore, it is still important to propose a simple and easily reproducible experiment proving the existence of this very relevant phenomenon. The installation proposed here should register the phenomenon according to its three manifestations: excessive heat generation, transmutation of the environment and signs of "strange radiation". A little-studied process of diaphragm discharge in distilled water is used, when plasma is excited between liquid electrodes in the holes of a silicon diaphragm.

Installation design

      The figure shows a diagram of the proposed installation. The galvanic bath (1) with a volume of two liters is made of a good electrical insulating material, for example, Plexiglas. The bath is divided by a partition in half, in the middle of the partition there is a window into which a diaphragm (3) made of a thin monosilicon plate is glued. A group of holes with a diameter of 0.5 mm is made in the plate. The bath is enclosed in a heat-insulating shell (2).  The anode (6) and cathode (5) are made of copper sheet, distilled water is used as an electrolyte, possibly to increase the conductivity of the electrolyte, the addition of a small amount of alkali or acid. A constant voltage of 2 kV is supplied to the electrodes of the bath from the power source (10).

       Heat removal from the bath is carried out using plastic heat exchangers (7), through which water is pumped using a cooling station (12). When gas products appear in a small volume, they are discharged through a recording device (11). To detect "strange radiation", traps (8) consisting of a package of alternating layers of film and copper foil are placed in the bath - one in the discharge zone and one, the control one to the side.

Conducting an experiment

     The capacitor (C) is charged from a high-voltage power source (10), when the valve (14) is closed, voltage is applied to the anode of the bath (6). Since the halves of the bath are separated by an insulating partition, all the voltage falls on the small apertures of the diaphragm. A short plasma discharge occurs in them, see work (3). 

     The capacitance of the capacitor is selected so that the smoldering discharge in the electrolyte does not reach the metal electrodes. The energy entering the heat-insulated space is calculated according to the formula shown in the upper part of the figure. Here (W) is the energy in joules, (C) is the capacitance of the capacitor in farads, (U1) is the voltage to which the capacitor is charged in volts, (U2) is the residual voltage on the capacitor, (N) is the number of pulses. These values can be measured with an accuracy of 0.1%, the computer takes measurements for each pulse and sums up the energy injected into the camera for a certain period of time.

      The energy output from the chamber is calculated by the computer using the formula at the bottom of the figure. Temperatures (t1) and (t)2 can also be measured with an accuracy of 0.1%, with the mass of water passed through the radiator (m) is more difficult, but, if necessary, it is possible to complicate the station (12) and measure water through a measuring beaker. In general, the balance of incoming and outgoing energy from the insulated space can be performed with an accuracy of 0.5%.

     It is reasonable to maintain the tempo of the pulses set by the computer so that the difference (t2 – t1) is 20, 25 degrees Celsius, the measurement (t3) is not significant. We don't care how the energy injected into the chamber is redistributed. If the thermal part of the Lenr effect does not manifest itself, the heat balance due to the imperfection of the thermal insulation of the box will be 1-2 percent negative. The discharge process in pure water is usually not accompanied by the reduction of atoms from ions, therefore significant release of gases (oxygen, hydrogen) is not expected, and the transfer of copper cations is also unlikely. There will also be no loss of water for evaporation in a closed bath at a temperature below 50 degrees. Made of monosilicon (used in the manufacture of chips), the diaphragm is quite stable under cavitation, which occurs when vapor bubbles collapse. This allows the experiment to be carried out for a long time (several days), which will make obvious the possible phenomena of transmutation in the bath water and changes in the film in the "strange radiation" detector (8). After the end of the experiment, a spectral analysis of the electrolyte and possible sediment for traces of transmutation is carried out.

Additional considerations

     How can a real job be interesting, what new can it show?  Shoulders (EV) charge clusters arise in extreme microenvironment conditions: large voltage gradients, ultrasound, high-temperature plasma, dynamic boundary of liquid and gas phases. All this is in the diaphragm discharge. EV in the process of their vital activity release energy, they receive it as a result of the transmutation of individual atoms of the medium through which the cluster moves. And it is not necessary to "feed" it with nickel, any medium will do. It is enough to turn one of the million oxygen atoms that have passed through the structure of the charge cluster into another atom one or two numbers heavier, and the energy obtained due to the mass defect will be enough for its continued existence.

  The peculiarity of the proposed installation is its compactness in combination with the intensity of internal processes. It is easy to insulate it and accurately, without ambiguity, take into account the balance of incoming and outgoing energy. In addition, the new approach encourages participants to search for new solutions.

                                                                                   Igor Rulev  04.2023 г.