RE: Report on Test of NOVA Reactor with Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project
It's great that you attempted this experimental series, but given Dr. Egely's reactors have very specific geometries to produce the acoustic transduction and resonance, along with the electromagnetic effects besides simple heating to very high temperatures, I'd think it predictable you'd get minimal and inconclusive results, since these were substantially different.
As to your power supply, if you're just DC offsetting a full-wave bridge, you'll get lots of high-frequency content in your heater, but none of it will be inharmonic, and you might be handily missing some required resonant frequency that optimizes the desired effect because it's not a harmonic of that 50 Hz.
Again, it seems you're altering too many parameters simultaneously to generate useful data- but inconclusive data DNE faulty data, so you should be highly motivated to try this with the modifications you've pointed out.
Perhaps you can cut the SEM and MS billing by jobbing this out to instructors and students at good engineering or science programs fairly close by, if you don't have to consider the stringent third-party reporting requirements.
Actually, this was built by Dr. Egely's team but financed by MFMP. This is their simplest form of reactor.
Other than the mesh front, we were told that the main problem appears to be the type of Carbon used, it was conductive rather than insulating. Dr. Egely has since reported that his team (who took the reactor back with them to Hungary) have run ground, supposedly pure, carbon nuclear reactor moderator block material and that it has produced magnetic particles in this exact reactor but with the solid (not mesh) front on it. This is encouraging and the same test will be the first to be repeated in controlled conditions with full material chain of custody when we do the next set of experimental runs. It is unfortunate that in the 2.5 years since their last experiments were run, the importance of using this carbon was overlooked, had it not been, then it could have been brought with them and formed part of the first tests.
The below image was sent 26/10/2017 from Dr. Egely's team member using the same reactor we trialled but with the front mesh replaced, we are told, with the normal solid plate with observations holes and with ground carbon from nuclear reactor grade moderator blocks.
We cannot confirm the veracity of this claim other than report it, we are informed that they will put the ash through mass spectrometry. We have asked them to repeat the experiment several times and codify the process so that we can hit the road running on the next official outing.
Whilst this is annoying, it has precedent, often claimants forget key things even when they are writing patents, we had a number of occasions where Francesco Celani would realise he had forgotten to tell us something important.