Stubblefiled & Meucci

[AbbaRue]

@AhuraMazda
Thanks for the links about Thorium and the welding rods.
I already know about the dangers of Thorium. 
I don't intend on doing anything with the rods except place one in a sealed tube.
It would be a concern if I was going to grind the tip like welders do or use it for welding.
I don't think I would like to be welding for a living using these rods.

I think the res. freq. for these rods may be 1.22 MHz.
I wound 24AWG wire around the whole length of the rod, then placed it into a plastic straw.
I glue gun glued the both ends shut and only the 2 wire ends are sticking out.
When I connected my signal generator to the winding I get a second waveform on the scope at 1.22 MHz.
So I think this may be the res. freq. of the thorium.  1.22 MHz.
I will keep experimenting.  It would be awesome if this works.

[mikewatson]

Pirate88179

I came across this "Nuclear Reactor" as well a little while ago. I have tried something similar but with zero success, so far at least.

I wound about 15 turns of thick enamelled copper wire into a coil of roughly the same size as his "secondary winding" and soldered a 0.002 microfarad capacitor across the ends. I Put a 1mm thick pure thorium wire down the middle of the coil  both with and without a glass tube. The thorium wire is a good alpha emitter much the same or better than depleted U238.(see wikipedia)
I put a scope across the coil to see if there was any sign of oscillation, nothing at all. Shock excitation by charging up the C then connecting it across the coil with the thorium wire in place did nothing. The thorium had no effect at all on the coil as far as I could see. There may be a critical frequency or something, unfortunately we do not know the capacitor size. Anyway glass blocks alpha particle completely.
The picture may be a hoax of course.

Mike

   

[Pirate88179]

Mike:

Yes, it may well be a hoax, I don't really know.  I don't know anything else about it except Hans posted it in the earth battery topic some time ago.  I saved the picture because I thought it was interesting.  I have not done any research or experiments along this line at all.  I guess one can maybe google around and find where it came from?  There may be more information if this photo was originally on a website somewhere else.

Bill

[hansvonlieven]

G'day all

You can see the picture of the reactor with much clearer labeling on

http://keelytech.com/stubblefield.html  The paper also talks about similar devices like Barbat.

Hans von Lieven

[amigo]

My understanding of these nuclear batteries (resonant nuclear reactor) is that you can NOT use an alpha source and expect something to happen. You have to have a beta source to get the effect.

I remember when I first read about the nuclear battery, I though: great, I'll just get a bunch of smoke alarms, extract the Americium and voila. Then I found out that Americium is an alpha source and I needed a beta. Scrapped that idea then...