Source of energy, Testatika

[TinselKoala]

@TinselKoala: but there's the point: if I use a motor it's like that: let's say the motor drives at about 50 revolutions/second and does this for 10 seconds to charge the capacitor up, then it's a minimum of 500 rps already. Compared to that, Baumann only needed 10 rotations to charge up the cap. Something in Baumann's principle experiment setup must have been overly efficient.

Yes, I agree with you there. But also, as far as I know, nobody else has been able to reproduce the Principal Experiment, even though the materials and construction seem simple enough. It's strange and tantalising that many static machines do exist that look superficially like the PE and the full Testatika, both single and twindisk versions, but none of them are anywhere near the output performance of Baumann's devices.

Beta emitters could be used effectively to "pre-charge" or add just enough charge to get enough coldfield emission so that a non-contact induction static machine like a Bonetti, or an electrophorus/capacitance device like I think the PE is, to "start" its induction/voltage amplification process. But the major energy will still be coming from whatever drives the physical motion of the parts. If you had a beta emitter strong enough actually to supply the full power that the machines exhibited, you'd not be able to stand in the same room with it, I don't think.

[Shanti]

If you had a beta emitter strong enough actually to supply the full power that the machines exhibited, you'd not be able to stand in the same room with it, I don't think.

Well, shielding beta radiation is not that big problem (if the energy is not too high). But then you get heat...

[mikewatson]

One beta particle from strontium90 (0.5 Mev produces 86000 ions on absorption in a metal) and radium emanations with 10 times the energy would probably produce up to 100 times more particles on absorption.
Paul Brown's patent 4,835,433 used such emanation directly. Brown was killed in a road accident in 2001. Brown's cell was quite small and functioned by the direct absorption of radioactive emanations from strontium 90 by a resonant tuned circuit. Paul Brown's system was built and it worked giving 400 volts at 23 amps or 9 KW by direct radiation absorption.
So radioactivity can be directly used, whether it was used in the Testatika is another question, but it seems to me one plausible physical explanation.

[TinselKoala]

One beta particle from strontium90 (0.5 Mev produces 86000 ions on absorption in a metal) and radium emanations with 10 times the energy would probably produce up to 100 times more particles on absorption.
Paul Brown's patent 4,835,433 used such emanation directly. Brown was killed in a road accident in 2001. Brown's cell was quite small and functioned by the direct absorption of radioactive emanations from strontium 90 by a resonant tuned circuit. Paul Brown's system was built and it worked giving 400 volts at 23 amps or 9 KW by direct radiation absorption.
So radioactivity can be directly used, whether it was used in the Testatika is another question, but it seems to me one plausible physical explanation.

So why, then, does NASA use plutonium - powered thermoelectric generators for its robotic spacecraft, then? More suppression of miracle free energy tech?

[mikewatson]

I am acquainted with the president of the company for whom Paul Brown worked, specifically founded to exploit Brown's work. He wrote a book about this whole sorry tale, "The Half-Life of a Nuclear battery" riddled with politics, political interests and so on, the usual stuff.[size=78%] [/size]