Since a lot of the older guys here like to throw-out proposals for
meaningful but fairly inexpensive OU experiments - in hopes that
younger readers (perhaps with more vitality but fewer good ideas)
will benefit - here is another. The recent postings about taking
the MAHG to the next level is the ultimate goal to be
accomplished, but in several streamlined steps, each based on the
previous results. The first step investigates the possibility of
one very important configuration, which Mills/BLP has toyed with -
but which he actually missed the proper implementation of - by a
large margin in the way it should have been done: the microwave
**cavity resonator** tuned to the very important 21 cm.
hydrogen-line.
This experiment will demand a low power (perhaps 10 watts) RF
transmitter tuned to 1420 Mhz. Because of SETI etc. these are
quite common and affordable, but you want to avoid FCC problems.
Imagine a Pyrex tube of over 21 cm in length by 5.25 cm. in ID.
This tube should be wrapped on the outside with
conductive/reflective tape - the highly polished type. The tape
serves to ground the tube (yes Pyrex is conductive enough to be
grounded through the tube) and to reflect back as much photon
radiation as possible. One cupped cathode and one RF transmitter
loop are positioned at opposite ends with a gap of 21 cm between
them - the idea being to set up a standing wave in the tube and at
the same time introduce the maximum amount of electron charge that
the Pyrex can safely contain. A vacuum system and port will allow
various gases to be administered and purged.
Somewhere around the middle of the tube a small 5 millimeter hole
will have been provided through the conductive tape to allow light
to escape into a detector. All other light will be reflected back.
A UV photocell is positioned over this hole. A photographers light
meter with a UV-pass filter can be substituted. The only results
of interest in round-one of this experiment is the intensity of UV
light which is generated using various fills. Calorimetry will be
dispensed with, and if very intense UV is found, the OU which
accompanies it will be assumed - and round two will investigate
direct conversion of heat to electricity. As you can see, this is
*extremely streamlined* in order to cut through many layers of
work which has already been done by others and "go for the
gusto"....
The RF input can be combined with some level of low voltage dioded
DC or AC negative current into the tube so that you have lots of
free electrons and an initial gas fill of 50-100 torr. This flux
of free electrons in a low power standing wave tuned to the cavity
size should create the conditions necessary for OU, based on the
work of others. What is hoped-for is that some particular gas-fill
will show very high UV emission. Compared with a "baseline"
reading - using say neon as the control - one might expect many
order of magnitude gain with certain active gas-fills
incorporating hydrogen. The goal would be to find the fill which
gives the best possible UV emission - and then move on... Yes the
underlying assumption is that OU will present itself in the form
of UV - but this idea goes back a long way, and is not dependent
on my current hypothesis alone.
Yes, this level of streamlining assumes a lot - in fact, it
assumes way too much for many thorough experimenters - but why
reinvent everything that Mills and other have already done, and
done incorrectly or at least inefficiently? Not to mention, one
can always return to this at a later date and then fill-in the
missing pages, should the initial assumptions turned out to be too
ambitious. Consequently - the-is corner-cutting is purely
expeditious and not permanent.
My guess is that if a tuned cavity resonator with a particular
gas-fill is discovered in these experiments - one which gives a
several orders of magnitude increase in UV emission over a
baseline, then even if one does not fully subscribe to the
theories mentioned previously, but based on common sense - OU will
be there and one can move-on quickly to the microwave-based direct
conversion method.
MAHG gives a COP of 2.4 - and even if nothing better is found than
that - that level of COP is enough for self-power using simple
microwave conversion techniques. That is the key goal - to get to
self-power expeditiously.
Jones
- MAHG-like Cavity Resonator Jones Beene
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