My visits to Japan have shown me very little by way of renewables development, in contrast to the UK where there are wind-farms in many locations. If it is of interest, this report looks at current and future developments in this area.
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" Under long pulse length conditions, the input resistor 28 must be chosen to prevent a sustained glow discharge within the glass tube."
- I think it has been established (probably) that the Q-X runs at 100kHz....so no long pulse.
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I guess that is correct, because once a glow-discharge is present, there are no more EVO's.
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Not strictly neccessary, no. But on the topic of the EVO itself, there have been quite a few supporting pieces of research. One of the problems is that EVO's was pretty much Shoulder's name for the phenomenon. You will find them called 'charge clusters' 'plasmoids' and quite a few other names. There is also theoretical support from Feinneman and Puthoff as well as experimental support from scientists going back to the '50's.
ETA- this pice from 'Nature' discusses what they call 'relativistic electron bunches' . https://www.nature.com/articles/srep28263
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Experiments are always good, and low-cost ones the best of all in some ways, but I'm not sure what you are trying to prove or show? The main cost burden of replicating KS' work lies not in the creation of EVO's but in their detection and control. Not to mention the fact that so much of his work was done under vacuum.
On the topic of creating negative HT - how about the innards from a room ozoniser?
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That's why -buried in his work- you will find mention of mercury-wetted cathodes. These are to a certain extent self-repairing. But I hunted quite a while to find that
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So if electric field concentration is important for these EV to arise one might at the very least want to have a sharp cathode
Dead right.
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I heard long ago from another licensee that Roger Green sold his license back due to some serious concerns over his health. I know no more than that.
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This is 'Clearance' THH. Just call it a low value post, that's why they are here.
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I've always thought the Flynn work on bubble fusion in liquid metal interesting- here's a link to one of his patents.
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Alan, in what way do my remarks constitute "trolltime" please?
It's not always just about you, you know.
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Life's a puzzle Mary, and then you're dead. 'Twas ever this. Anyway, that's enough trolltime for today.
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No need to remember anything. Google is your friend.
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You will disagree anyway.
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Rossi has posted on his JONP that the QuarkX has "no potential" of runaway. Yet his "Team" states they are hard to control? Rossi states he has achieved "5 Sigma", which would indicate that the QuarkX is as reliable as could be.... 99.99999% and yet his "team" states it is hard to "ignite". I could go on....but I will not....
I'm afraid you will go on, it's in your nature. I would point out that Ross on JoNP was talking (I assume) about the current device. I never even go there so wouldn't know for sure. I was talking about reported problems with earlier and larger versions which you seem to be conflating with the current iteration, possibly deliberately.
As for Rossi, I don't care about the superstructure he throws up, I don't even bother about it. All I am interested in is the non-zero probability that he has something good.
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Would that be Gulstrom, who has written the theoretical paper but according to Mats Lewan, was not present at the test and is from Germany?
BTW, what have you got against Germans?
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Sorry - no comment, since knowing more would be of little use to you beyond satisfying your curiosity for a moment. I gave a technical response to a technical question about scale, and nothing more.
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I just came across this very simply written paper from the late Ken Shoulders. Only a couple of pages long, he expresses very clearly what he thought about the maverick life. Read it with your coffee, it will make you smile.
"Definition of an Explorer:
An Explorer is the human tip of an arrow-like probe into the future where no teachers have gone before. They say explorers are easily recognized as one rides along the frontier in a comfortable Calistoga wagon. Explorers are the ones beside the trail whose face is in the mud and have an arrow in the back. That illusion is not too far from the truth as they are frequently attacked while crossing treacherous territory all alone. For the scientific explorer, attacks most often come from the most benign looking sources—academic institutions. Explorers must be natural, self-motivated leaders and possibly those that cannot be taught, as they must learn new things for themselves instead of being taught. This characteristic alone is basis enough for an attack from the academic camp as it demonstrates nonconformity, an incorrigible act."
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I asked one of the Rossi team about scaling up the Q-X. The response was- yes you can make it bigger- but the bigger they are the harder they are to keep stable and to ignite.
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This is pretty much the same thing I wrote about in here awhile back...The work described in this patent - which is by a Pole - covers almost exactly the same ground..