The Papp engine used radium or thorium to increase the sensitivity of the electrode to electron extraction from the plasma. The alpha decay of Radium biased the pickup electrode with a positive charge that would attract electrons. This idea came from the well known technique used to dope lightning rods with radium back in the 1800s to increase the ability of these rods to attract lightning. In the Papp engine, the application of an electric arc increased the production of alpha decay right before the feedback current was produced by the plasma.
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 4:30 PM Robin <mixent...@aussiebroadband.com.au> wrote: > In reply to Chris Zell's message of Tue, 22 Sep 2020 15:38:15 +0000: > Hi Chris, > [snip] > >Does anyone have any info on this topic? It seems to me that either > Paul Brown was a deliberate, calculated fraud or he discovered something of > immense value. > Have you seen this already? http://www.rexresearch.com/nucell/nucell.htm > See also http://wiki.naturalphilosophy.org/index.php?title=Paul_M_Brown > and http://gratisenergi.se/hubbard.htm > >
