Johnston
Magnetic fields
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 If I wanted to strengthen the field of the cathode I could orient the magnets outside the cell to favor a counterclockwise spin and then the field of the electrode should link with the field of the permanent magnets. If I wanted to strengthen the field of the anode I could reverse the orientation of the magnets and have the water spin clockwise.

 I tried these modifications and got the expected results. Then I began to wonder how I could link the fields of the cathode and the anode to create a single "Electrode Field" and then cause the field of the permanent magnets to link with this electrode field and thereby create a single, much stronger field through the whole cell. This field should be further enhanced by the fact that the oxygen in the water is paramagnetic and this might be expected to strengthen the entire cell field once such a field was established. This would tend to further reduce the internal resistance of the cell as a whole by eliminating the opposition of the fields within the cell. And beyond this the resulting unified field of the cell could then be adjusted/intensified to almost any level desired just by using stronger or weaker permanent magnets.

 The illustration above shows how this linking of all fields associated with the cell might be accomplished. One of the electrodes is inserted into the cell from the top and the other from the bottom. Now, when the orientation of the fields is determined, it is seen that the fields of both electrodes are identical and should join into a single, stronger field. The positioning of the electrodes in the illustration is for the purposes of diagramming the concept only. Other configurations might prove more advantageous to achieving specific effects.

 By orienting the electrodes as shown above we remove the resistance of the opposing fields and this change will also eliminate the resistance caused by currents flowing in opposite directions in parallel conductors. Now the two parallel conductors (the electrodes) are carrying their current in the same direction. This simple change brings up an entirely new possibility. When two current carrying conductors are parallel and carrying current in the SAME direction then induction becomes possible between the two. Below is a second possible way to achieve the linking effect.

 The only foreseen problem with causing induction between the two electrodes is that there must be a change in either the magnetic field or the electric current in order for induction to occur. There are several possible solutions that immediately present themselves. One is to vary the magnetic field by moving the permanent magnets. Another is to use a different kind of DC current. Fluctuating or pulsed DC are the obvious choices, with pulsed DC being favored for reasons which I have identified through further experimentation but which are beyond the scope of this paper.

 The electrodes can then be modified to more closely function like an induction coil themselves. So then it would be possible to design a cell in which the anode is twice as inductive as the cathode and thereby actually boost or maintain the voltage across the cell rather than dropping it. Of course this would tend to limit current and so the whole system would have to be designed to both allow the level of current flow desired to produce the amount of H2 needed from the particular device and to have enough induction present to eliminate the voltage drop across the cell or cells if a series setup is preferred.

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