Bob Papp told me, last Friday, that the coil is not only not necessary, but doesn't significantly assist the function. He repeatedly fired off a cylinder without the coil as a demonstration.
Part of my motivation to visit was to make sure that the (non-heat engine) mechanical force was not simply a plasma pinch driven by the coil. Obviously, it wasn't. On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > The question: > Why is the axial confinement coil required in the papp engine. The Papp > reaction will not work without the coil. > The answer: > When the plasma is formed, the coil confines plasma into a very thin > conductive channel where one dimensional electron flow along the channel > makes the current superconductive. A electron screening cloud forms > together with Rydberg matter in the partial plasma. This causes aneutronic > fusion of three helium atoms into Boron11 and a proton. > > This is consistent with the finding of a brown ash in the Papp engine as a > nuclear ash. > > Cheers: Axil >
