2009/9/11 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <a...@lomaxdesign.com>: > At 11:06 AM 9/11/2009, you [Jed] wrote: ... >> "He hoped >> to adjust the voltage applied to the mesh to control the current flow. In >> other words, he was trying to make a crude transistor. Wooldridge later >> wrote: 'so here he had the three elements of a transistor, these two wires >> and the copper screen. Of course, he was orders of magnitude away from >> anything that would work!'" >> >> http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtransistor.pdf >> >> It was easy to cut some old copper screen with scissors and do a >> rudimentary experiment. It was much harder to make an actual working >> semiconductor 8 years later. > > Sure. But easier to do rudimentary experiments, once it was known what to > do.
You're right, same goes for a Volta pile, and same should go for a rudimentary CF cell. Let's not give up Abd, we're on the right (nuclear?) track I think. In any case it's worth trying, it would be nice to elucidate the exact cause of those CR-39 pits. I guess it's better to wait until the coldfusionproject list's membership builds up (in quantity I mean, it's quite good already in terms of quality I see) before we shift the technical discussions there? A couple points: - the Galileo Project protocol seems a good basis, I say let's not bother with a closed cell and associated risks. - what's the cathode's substrate wire material in the TGP, it's silver isn't it? - what's the electrolyte volume in TGP, 25ml right? Why would you want to make a smaller cell? - shouldn't we go for one of the "impatient" protocols? (producing pits in days instead of weeks) Michel
