I suggest that the dark zone at the tip of the needle is not due to a
vacuum there. It is more likely due to the average delay for
recombination of the ions and electrons. Electron recombination with
ions is likely what produces most of the light.
This is not to say fusion will not occur at the tip of a charged
needle. Indeed it occurs on charged fine wires. Not at a practical
level thus far though. If you are not familiar with Claytor's work
you might want to google "Clatyor" at:
http://www.lenr-canr.org/
During codeposition very fine structures, such as thin plates and
dendrites develop on metals, Magnetic and electrostatic fields
imposed on a cathode at the time of deposition affects the shape of
fine structures deposited during electrolysis. This was shown by
Szpak et al. at SPAWAR. Many years ago it was suspected the high
electric fields at the tips of dendrites that form on cathode
surfaces during electrolysis caused cold fusion. Nothing practical
has come of that though, thus far.
Fusion involving high field strength in low pressure tends to have
branching ratios closer to hot fusion, i.e. with more tritium and
neutrons produced.
At one point I suggested here the use of highly positive proton
conducting fine tipped needles for generating deuteron clusters and
fusion at the tip, working by a mechanism similar to electron EV
cluster formation - the overlap of spin pairs to form bosons,
followed by the clustering of the bosons before release.
While I am walking down memory lane, here is some thinking along
these lines that eventually led to the idea of deflation fusion, the
deflated hydrogen state the formation of very small short lived
magnetically bound orbitals:
http://mtaonline.net/%7Ehheffner/ElectPairs.pdf
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/PairLNR.pdf
On Dec 3, 2011, at 3:58 AM, Peter Heckert wrote:
Hi,
my idea is this:
place a needle in a pressurized deuterium stream and charge it to
some 100 kV.
My previous experiments have shown, that a stream of nonconductive
gas is able to conduct electricity.
For example a ordinary needle placed in dry air will cause an ion
wind, if charged to 10 kV.
No sparks develop. A current flow of some µA starts at 5kV and it
increases when the voltage is increased.
I measured this in air, using a selfmade HV supply.
My experiments have shown, that due to airflow and static repulsion
there is a vacuum at the tip of the needle. Also according tothe
laws of Bernoulli, the pressure should be low, where the speed of
gas is high.
So my idea is this:
Place a needle, charged to some 100 kV into a fast pressurized
electrical neutral deuterium flow.
The electrons should reach a speed of some 100 km/second, so the
speed of the gas doesnt matter, but the gas stream carries charges
away that would block the current from sustained flowing and it
prevents and deletes spark discharges.
This makes it possible to feed an electron current up to some mA
into the deuterium. If correctly done, no spark discharges should
happen.
1mA* 100kV = 100 W. The gas should heat up at the tip of the needle.
We should get a µm thin layer of vacuum at the needles tip and hot
conductive plasma above this vacuum layer. This means we should get
a voltage drop of some 100 kV at a µm thin layer of vacuum. This
equals a field strength of some gigavolts per meter, and
pyroelectric fusion was already successfully done with this
strength of field!
Accelerated electrons are supposed to fly into the electrical
neutral hot deuerium plasma.
Assumed, this all is possible, how much voltage would be needed at
minimum to get hot D-D fusion?
Peter
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
