Jones,
First, as an aside, I suggest you avoid snarcasm ("bone-headed"?????.)
I would be enormously surprised if the W-L theorists were not totally
familiar with the Farnsworth Fusor. Also, note that Sternglass publish
his book in 1997. The Fusor was very well known by then.
We may have a miscommunication due to a typo.
Please replace "35 KV" with "35 KeV" - that is the energy in the Sternglass
experiment. Also note, (I believe) that he was using pure-H. Would we
expect much neutron generation in the (presumed) e-p (or any other)
collisions, or would they be virtually all elastic? If formed by fusion
in an inadvertent Fusor-like environment, shouldn't we expect 2.45 MeV
neutrons?
Is this an experiment worth repeating?
Either definitive success or failure would be interesting.
BTW, time permitting, I will calculate the length+density a 35 KeV
electron plasma beam needs for individual electrons to acquire 780 KeV
of K.E. in collisions via collective effects - using either the vector
magnetic potential, or equivalently, the Darwin Hamiltonian which
Sternglass refers to. Collective effects can be huge.
-- Lou Pagnucco
Jones Beene wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
>
> Ed,
>
> You may be correct, but if you could amplify your comment -
>
> "Neutrons can be made at 35kv, as described on the article,
> but at a low rate."
>
> I would be interested, since I (perhaps erroneously) thought
> that neutron production was almost impossible in bare
> electron-proton(or deuteron) collisions at these energies.
>
>
> Lou
>
> The Farnsworth Fusor has been around for a long time and produces up to
> 10,000 neutrons per second at 35 kv (or less). This is deuterium fusion
> but
> is often called "warm" instead of "hot" since the input power is fairly
> low.
>
> This is technically ICF - inertial confinement fusion - since the tube is
> spherical and benefits from what is known as "spherical convergence".
>
> If Larsen did not know of this device, it is almost bone-headed, given
> Farnsworth's fame (he invented television) and the publicity that the
> Fusor
> has received over the years.
>
> Jones
