elias,
the strange thing is the pendulum DID charge the batteries... and it charged them so convincingly that John included it in EFTV so it must have been months before he realised the negative effects of the pendulum... This is one reason I think that its the accumulation over time of new chemicals in the battery...
In the reduction process electrons must be supplied to complete the chemical reaction to get the sulphur off the lead and turn it back into sulphuric acid...
but I think what the pendulum did was force the sulphur off the lead but there wasn't enough electrons for the reaction to complete fast enough leaving empty atomic bonds that joined with just about anything they could find! This could lead to all kinds of chemical combinations of the elements building up over time that wouldn't normally exist in the battery...
These new chemicals may behave in a similar way to the chemicals in the battery (since they are very similar chemically except there may be a sulphur or hydrogen atom stuck in the wrong place or two where there should be one) but as they build up it will become evident that they do not have the same performance.
So, like john says, we have to work at the speed nature intends. I think the pendulum DID charge the batteries but faster then they could fully make use of the electrons available in their enviroment.
Using the plant analogy again, providing a current is like providing air flow for a plant.
Or I'm just plain wrong... this is just the conclusion I have come to with the facts we have available.
the strange thing is the pendulum DID charge the batteries... and it charged them so convincingly that John included it in EFTV so it must have been months before he realised the negative effects of the pendulum... This is one reason I think that its the accumulation over time of new chemicals in the battery...
In the reduction process electrons must be supplied to complete the chemical reaction to get the sulphur off the lead and turn it back into sulphuric acid...
but I think what the pendulum did was force the sulphur off the lead but there wasn't enough electrons for the reaction to complete fast enough leaving empty atomic bonds that joined with just about anything they could find! This could lead to all kinds of chemical combinations of the elements building up over time that wouldn't normally exist in the battery...
These new chemicals may behave in a similar way to the chemicals in the battery (since they are very similar chemically except there may be a sulphur or hydrogen atom stuck in the wrong place or two where there should be one) but as they build up it will become evident that they do not have the same performance.
So, like john says, we have to work at the speed nature intends. I think the pendulum DID charge the batteries but faster then they could fully make use of the electrons available in their enviroment.
Using the plant analogy again, providing a current is like providing air flow for a plant.
Or I'm just plain wrong... this is just the conclusion I have come to with the facts we have available.
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