History of a discovery
- From: "Normal Person" <me@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:39:36 GMT
History of a discovery
I was a small boy of about 6-7 who had been encouraged to play with
electrical toys, I called "wires". One was a toy shocking coil.
Well children play at random and the coil had an iron core that I pulled
out. Me grump had some hydrogen discharge tubes and other gasses called
Giesler tubes or spectral lamps.
I may have been connecting them so they lit by the current from the
induction coil.
Well "what happens if you put one inside the coil where the iron went" I
thought. It fitted and then the vibrations started without the battery.
Me grump came and asked "What's doing it, - oh you've got the tube inside".
I've been trying to work out what was happening.
The solution is that the Maxwellian electromagnetism has to be replaced by
quantum mechanics and special relativity.
Along the way the concept (originally by Hubbard) that elementary particles
were "condensed light" - light frozen (or "stuck") by self gravity came
along. This uses the general relativity theory.
Oh and my great uncle Walter invented the transistor, it was on sale in the
family shop in Tooting, next to tooting station where it was used to amplify
a crystal set receiver. That was around 1930, (Our family once owned a
tailors shop in Tooting high street and have all manner of illustrious
ancestors, some "noble" lords and we were landlords ourselves, me great
grandmother married "beneath her station" to tradesman). It was not adopted
because the Fleming family, who invented the thermionic valve, had loads
more cash. It was called the "Germanium Triode". Me mothers family, them
with no shoes, had an alderman and rich farmers way back when. A Celt
married a Norseman.
My experiment was simple: A hydrogen spectral tube inside an induction coil
with a capacitor across the coil to make a parallel tuned circuit. The
power output was taken from a secondary. Power level was controlled by a
vibrating reed circuit breaker that altered the duty cycle to keep a
constant power level it was adjusted by moving the breaker contact.
One report was that the tube was a vacuum but this probably means low
pressure air. Air is also a nuclear fuel as the atomic nuclei in air will
occasionally fuse to form heavier elements with the release of energy.
In the arrangement below the energy from spontaneous fusion reactions at
room temperature is picked up by the tuned circuit and stored so that as the
electrical energy accumulates the feedback from the tuned circuit to the gas
causes heating and a higher and higher rate of reaction until useful power
can be extracted.
It has taken me forty years to work out the physics and these dangerous
"hydrogen engines" have caused fatalities.
If I remember I called my experiments at about ten "plasma oscillators".
The engines are not cheap, they use huge semiconductors with 1 meter
diameter silicon wafers with thousands of power transistors etched on them
to form the regulator to control the unit from runaway a explosion. These
epitaxial transistors are specially grown and etched for over a million
pounds each and the four diodes are as much each. The current of of 10
million amps in the four reactors has to be controlled by a transistor and
it is critical. So with the shielding and the blast containment of heavy
concrete the cost of a fairly normal Drax power station would be of the
order of 100 million pounds. The one that I took to the Culham about ten
years ago was rated at 10 milli-watt. The toy I made at ten was a spark gap
limited version with a rating of about 1/2 watt. The voltage of the reactor
is only 12 volts, so the inductor is a massive affair with the 100 hertz
current carried by huge conductor consisting of copper pipe with cooling
water flowing.
The vibrating reed circuit breaker is not needed.
The first one I built was at the Vine Stately home, once owned by me, now by
the bank, it is a well preserved Roman Villa. After a fatal accident (The
reactor exploded) and an invasion of Wilson's airborne division (it ran at
900 KHz and caused massive world wide interference). I then repeated this at
the RSRS Didcot, with the resulting uncontrolled reactor that was put in a
bunker and then the explosion took several lives. I was told it was an
extremely dangerous physics experiment, but we then were able to control it
with a saturable reactor taken from a spitfire. Another man had a 3000 watt
valve that got too hot. Our version had a little knob and an electric light
bulb could be turned up and down in brightness.
The later version tested in a ship had a spark gap limiter but the
interference to the radio caused loads of problems, even with screening and
suppressors, the later versions had these huge semiconductors.
The first one I made at the vine was started with a 300 amp pulse from a 12
volt car battery controlled by a little diac circuit, the diac was a 300 amp
special from Marconi.
Later versions start all by themselves because of the low rate of fusion
reactions in low pressure hydrogen at room temperature. The electrical noise
these generate accumulates in the inductor capacitor parallel tuned circuit.
The are a British military secret that are used in all our warships,
originally designated as too dangerous for commercial use. I was the
"inventor" and I was on the design team,
Chris.
27/08/2006
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