Crystal Power CeLL by John Hutchison

[Feynman]

@Ian, all

The audio from the radio show is not online yet, but I suspect it will be soon.  The program is called "Paranormal Radio" and the host was "Captain Jack", who was actually a really good host.  It was recorded Wed. March 26th 2008.

http://www.contacttalkradio.com/hosts/archives/captainjack.htm

[Koen1]

I would like to post the ingredients as Hutchison mentioned them
in his private newsletter, but one can only get to his newsletter
by registering as a member on the website www.hutchisoneffect.ca
and donating some $$ to his cause. Which I did, but clearly that
"members only" info was not intended for the general public, and
I think Hutchison would not appreciate my "pirating" of his newsletter.

It seems that website is now offline. It was still online two weeks ago.
Don't know what's going on...

In any case, the info in the newsletter was similar to the info Feynman
got from the radio show, yet slightly different.
He names the ingredients he told Feynman about, but he also mentions
others. In the newsletter he does not state Galena as ingredient, he
describes it as a material with similar desirable characteristics.
To me that meant "semiconductor used for making rectifying diodes",
which explains the Germanium as anyone schooled in the history of the
diode and the transistor should know that before transistors existed,
people used vacuum tube amplifiers and/or "crystal detectors" in radios.
For clarification: "crystal detectors" were originally semiconductive crystals
like Galena, and they were ancestors and rough versions of a diode.
During WW2 radar research they researched better "radio detectors",
and came up with Germanium as a better crystal detector.
So basically Galena is the older and less sensitive "cousin" of Germanium.
(well not really as it is a compound and only semconductive as compound
crystal, while Germanium is a semiconductive element in itself. But you get the idea.)
It is, in my opinion and according to my own theoretical interpretation,
not at all coincidental that fine quartz sand is used, as that obviously is a silicium
compound, and silicium is the lighter "brother" of germanium, it is also a semi-
conductive element, and much more abundant than germanium.

[Feynman]

@Koen
So do you think that we want both germanium powder and galena, or one or the other?  Or perhaps we should try both?

@all
By the way, germanium powder should be easy to obtain at high mesh sizes, since it is a non-toxic semiconductor.   The problem will obtaining be the galena (lead sulfide) and perhaps the barium titanate, since these are toxic. This of course will vary depending on your country.

The rochelle salt is very easy to make, and requires only readily available reagents.  I posted a simple reaction to precipitate rochelle salt, and you can probably just dessicate it and then grind very finely using a morter and pestle.

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@Koen, ian
Are you sure that you need to mix this stuff in water? I'm afraid that might destroy the crystalline structure of these beautiful reagents.  Because many are ionic salts, by wet mixing, those ions are just going to go into solution, and you'll be real lucky if you get nice crystals back out.

If this were my crystal cell, I'd just dry mix nanoparticle powders of the components and run 20 kiloVolts through it.  Perhaps this is not correct.

[Koen1]

So do you think that we want both germanium powder and galena, or one or the other?  Or perhaps we should try both?

Well that's a good question. I am inclined to experiment, so I would say try all of the above.
I have an educated hunch that some combination of the two might have more of the desired effect than one of the two.
But I also have some mixed feelings bout the galena, and think perhaps other semiconductor compounds could be
equally or even more usefull.

By the way, germanium powder should be easy to obtain at high mesh sizes, since it is a non-toxic semiconductor.   The problem will obtaining be the galena (lead sulfide) and perhaps the barium compounds, since these are toxic. This of course will vary depending on your country.

Yes well, toxicity is not the only thing that limits availability. Abundance is also an important factor. Germanium is a relatively rare element, while lead and sulphur
are quite abundant, which makes Ge very expensive and PbS cheap. Could be that PbS is not easily found, but should not be more difficult than Ge,
and it can be made quite easily by reacting lead and sulphur. And anyone with an old car battery has the two... Besides, Galena is a naturally occuring
mineral, so you should be able to order it from mineral and gem shops.

The rochelle salt is very easy to make, and requires only readily available reagents.  I posted a simple reaction to precipitate rochelle salt, and you can probably just grind it very finely using a morter and pestle.

Yes, I know the basic preparation formula you posted. It's from Wiki, isn't it?
The problem I have with that is that although sodium carbonate is readily available, I cannot find an easy source of potassium bitatrate.
Maybe some antique chemist across the border can make me some rochelle salt...

PS
Are you sure that you need to mix this stuff in water? I'm afraid that might destroy the crystalline structure of these beautiful reagents.  Because many are ionic salts, by wet mixing, those ions are just going to go into solution, and you'll be real lucky if you get nice crystals back out.

Well, I have several reasons for the tenacious idea that we need to add water. One is the simple fact that Hutchison said so (in his newsletter).
Another is that the end product is a silicate compound with metal/mineral dopant, and in general any such solid is called a "ceramic", which
in general is prepared by mixing the ingredients in a moist state, and then baking them into a solid.
And another is the fact that any dry form of melding/fusing/baking the mix into a solid requires extremely high temperatures because you're
talking about melting the solid materials and allowing the molten materials to fuse and form one material matrix. This needs extreme
temperatures and a kiln that can reach the melting temperatures of all materials needed. Silicium for example metls at 1420 degrees C,
SiO2 at 1650 degrees... Now that's really hot, not just something you do in your kitchen. And as you may recall from Hutchisons demo
video in the "invent this!" TechTV show, in the demo he uses a simple electrical cooker/heater to make the cell... If it did not contain
any water, then that would serve no purpose other than warming the powders up nice and cozy... And I don't think that's what H is doing.

Perhaps you are slighlty lead astray by the term "crystal cell"? What is meant is not "a cell full of little crystals", but rather the term
"crystal" as in "crystalline material matrix", you know, the "crystal lettice", the internal structure of a solid material. The cell material
forms 'crystalline' material structure in that the different atoms link together in a suitable manner to produce a specific solid compound,
which like any crystal structure has certain electrical and electrodynamic properties. Ok, it seems to me that all of these cells would
contain a polycrystalline material which one could view as "many little crystals", but I don't think that is what is meant with the term
"crystal cell".

But hey, I could be wrong...

If this were my crystal cell, I'd just dry mix nanoparticle powders of the components and run 20 kiloVolts through it. Just a thought.

Well I'd like to do that in combination with tossing the entire thing into a kiln at something like 1800 degrees, because it is of very little
to no use if we do that at "kitchen temperatures" of 300 degrees max.
So it seems melting is the way to go for the dry approach. And if we want to quartz/silicium to melt along with the rest,
we'll need at least 1600 degrees...
But what metals remain solid at that temperature? After all, we'd need a container...
And we can't melt it in a kiln, then pull it out in molten state and quickly pour it into a metal container, either...
... for one thing you'd set the building on fire, and still melt the metal container probably.

Well, there's my reasons for adding some water.









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[sutra]

Hey guys,

Rochelle salts disolve also in alcohool...maybe just enough to adhere to the platlets and bond everything together...


Have you seen these pics? The cell looks so "glassy" inside..almost like a pile of thin glass, quartz or fluorite disks...
but the interesting thing is the drawing he shows: looks like the scheme of a diode...or the blue-print of a system to keep "compressed" the disks pile - I also read somewhere, that he needed the help of someone to find the system to coat quartz with metal....the only simple one I know is the method involving the rochelle salts and silver...
In the other hand, we all saw the videos where he shows a very different cell content...

Moreover I think that  a man who discovers the secret to harvesting free energy, would be VERY VERY much busy in finding the way to merchandise its product (worth an hell of money) or at least sharing it with the rest of the world...(as probably we are pushed in doing, since mother Earth resources are limited and the climate is completely ruined...)...for me. his behaviour is quite strange... 

???What do you think?


ciao