>Ionizing radiation in the vicinity of the electrodes may positively affect the process by adding more energy at the atomic scale to get the bonds to break more easily. This crazy guy John Hutchinson invented a crystal cell battery. He mixes epsom salts cream of tartar and somthin else inside a copper tube with a magnesium anode in the middle. You can make them big or real small and they seem to get the same output. IT'S A SELF RECHARGING BATTERY, given it is only milli amps... but you could make a shitload in series...I did the math years ago on the poorly constructed ones and you needed like hundreds to equal 1AA battery. John never patented it and offered it up to open source, pretty cool of him. Anyhow someone mentioned adding radioactive isotopes to the slurry mix to increase the output. Last I checked people are making the cells more stable and last longer, the problem is the magnesium tends to corrode. If you could make real stable ones, doping them with even low grade radioactive material would help. Not all radioactive rocks are controlled. People collect and trade and sell radioactive rocks all the time at gem and mineral shows.