Single circuits generate nuclear reactions

[Reiyuki]

I set up a carbon rod ( as used for welding with the copper coating removed) surrounded by a coil wound along the axis of the carbon all mounted in the centre of a toroidal mains transformer with the secondary stripped off. The primary of the toroid is wound with approximately 1400 turns. The set up is closely similar to J.L.Naudin's except no thoriated tungsten is present or spark gap, only a  solid carbon rod 6mm x 58mm between the contacts.
The load across the toroidal winding is 69 ohms.
The coil, co-axial with the carbon rod develops approximately 600 gauss.
The carbon rod is pulsed with with various energies up to 115 joules at 170 volts with a capacitance of 0.008 F.
The pulse with and without the 600 gauss magnetic field in either direction along along the carbon  is measured and the output pulse across the 69 ohms resistor stored in a storage scope.
No significant difference was found in the output pulse height and area against the presence or direction of the magnetic field along the carbon rod for any given input energies up to 115 J so far tested.
Mike

What resistance do you get in the carbon rod?  It seems to be the only real difference between the naudin experiment and yours.
The successful experiments I believe were 1/4-1/2" dia. carbon that had a resistance of 1.8 ohm, and that was 99.95% pure.

Thanks for publishing your results to date, mikewatson.  Hope to hear more from you.

[mikewatson]

The resistance of the carbon rod between the copper contacts is 0.308 ohms at 4.54 amps. It is ordinary welding carbon. I am awaiting some pure graphite rods and will retry the test when they arrive.

J.L. Naudin's is experiment significantly different in that he has a (thoriated)tungsten-carbon pressure contact within the toroid wheras Juan uses a carbon rod only, no tungsten, no pressure contact. I am presently testing the Juan configuration with just carbon.
The first thing that comes to mind is that in J. L. Naudin's case, most of the energy will appear across the carbon-tungsten junction where a short arc will form. He says in the text that it is necessary to get the carbon into the vapour condition for the nuclear reaction to occur. The implication is that all the extra energy is produced in the arc at this point not in the carbon rod.

I will attempt to produce a similar contact arc but between two carbons only, without thoriated tungsten, and see if this produces results similar to Naudin's. The idea behind these experiments is to find out if the presence of thorium in Naudin's experiment is important as Vall?e claimed or not.

Mike

[mikewatson]

The resistance of the carbon rod between the copper contacts is 0.308 ohms at 4.54 amps. It is ordinary welding carbon. I am awaiting some pure graphite rods and will retry the test when they arrive.

J.L. Naudin's is experiment significantly different in that he has a (thoriated)tungsten-carbon pressure contact within the toroid wheras Juan uses a carbon rod only, no tungsten, no pressure contact. I am presently testing the Juan configuration with just carbon.
The first thing that comes to mind is that in J. L. Naudin's case, most of the energy will appear across the carbon-tungsten junction where a short arc will form. He says in the text that it is necessary to get the carbon into the vapour condition for the nuclear reaction to occur. The implication is that all the extra energy is produced in the arc at this point not in the carbon rod.
I will attempt to produce a similar contact arc but between two carbons only, without thoriated tungsten, and see if this produces results similar to Naudin's. The idea behind these experiments is to find out if the presence of thorium in Naudin's experiment is important as Vall?e claimed or not.

Mike

I have cut the carbon rod into two pieces. The ends are in light contact within the toroid. 140 volts was discharged through the carbons from 0.008 F capacitors. a 600 gauss magnetic field along the axis of the carbons was initially off, then applied one way and then with the direction reversed. For each condition the capacitors were discharged through the contact between the carbons. There was no difference in the pulse height or area between the three magnetic states.

Mike

[AbbaRue]

Naudin's v3.1 used a 0.2 ohm carbon rod and had a gain of 3607 watts.
The 4.1 used a 0.041 ohm carbon rod and had a gain of 382 K watts
Thats 382 kilo watts not watts.
I don't know where the 1.8 ohms came from.

[Earl]

Mike,

your attached image has zero kB.

Please try again.

Earl