I run an exotic and minor metals processing business, specializing in refractory and semiconductor metals, visit us, www.martalloy.com. Anyway, I get a call from Blacklight Power the other day to recycle some refractory retorts and crucibles. For those of you who are unfamiliar, they are a NJ company who claim to "shrink H atoms below the ground state". I don't buy the theory, but they are getting some interesting results. Being in NJ, I ask to come to the plant to check out the scrap. Judging from what I saw, it looks very well funded.
I looked at some of the guy's papers and realized that his test cells are quite basic. Then I thought of IEC. One of the papers claims to get breakdown to plasma discharge in Hydrogen/Stontium mixtures at very low applied voltage.(I think around 25 V) I was thinking, what may be the implications if he used a cocentric grid sceme rather than the axial cylindrical cathode type? Are there types of gases other than H2 that could be used in the Fusor to produce fusion? Could the Fusor be run off metal vapor and air?
Created on Sunday, February 11, 2001 8:52 PM EDT by Martin T Blendulf