This is quite interesting... So basically, the magnet causes "magnetic polarisation" of the
battery, which outputs "magnetically polarised" electrons, which in turn for some reason
experience less resistance and/or flow faster into the capacitor?
And you say Hempel can replace the battery with a cap and have the same effect?
I was first reminded of the "magnetic current" and "magnetolysis of water" by Felix Ehrenhaft.
(
http://www.rexresearch.com/ehrenhaf/ehrenhaf.htm )
Ehrenhaft didn't do exactly the same thing, he did it sort of the other way around:
he used two pure iron core (electro)magnets that were stuck into an electrolyte solution,
and when the current to the magnets was on a magnetic field was generated between
these two iron core pieces. Just like in electrolysis, this "magnetolysis" setup caused
the formation of more H2 and O2 than could be accounted for based on the chemical
reactions between the solution and the iron alone.
So it seemed that the magnetic field had some kind of polarising effect on the ions
in the solution, thereby causing an electrolysis effect in the solution, without actually
feeding electricity to the electrodes.
Now at first glance it seemed that Hempel was doing something similar in the Lithium
battery bags; as in causing polarisation of the electrolyte and causing the ions to
seperate and move, without actual electrical action, but solely on magnetic stimulation.
But then I wonder how he manages to get the trick to work using capacitors only.
Of course, if it doesn't really have to do with the electrolyte and if it is mainly a
sort of electron spin effect, then the trick should also work in capacitors.
But that seems farther removed from the Ehrenhaft "magnetic ions" approach.
Which is not necessarily a problem, it just requires a slightly deeper explanation
than the "magnetic ions" idea.
Might it perhaps be a sort of "synchronisation" effect? As in that the electrons
are forced to spin in the same direction while moving, by the magnetic field, and so
there are no electrons of opposing spin in the current, which causes the electrons
to "spread out" over the cap plates more smoothly and evenly, without all
the collisions and interference with and from the electrons with opposing spins,
that normally "pollute" a current?
Just speculating here...
Regards,
Koen