Single circuits generate nuclear reactions

[rensseak]

What is clear to me now is that there is large amounts of energy here, just no good means of capturing most of it via a toroidal transformer. Aluminum sheet seems to collect just as much potential as the windings of the toroid. Same with air cores using 4 AWG monster cable. It doesn't seem to matter what metal you put up close to this reaction, it gathers large potential, but without directing this energy there is very little current (on the order of 20-100mA). Very frustrating.......

What about a multi strandet cable as collector?

[argona369]

Interesting thread.
homopolar generator?

If you wanted to try what tesla did .
He tried every combination it seems, including trying to completely remove inductance
And end up with an electrostatic circuit only.
To that end, removing half of the capacitors in your circuit and
Connecting them in series.

From his Colorado notes:

?one way of reducing the internal capacity is to place between the turns, and in series with them, condensers of proper capacity?

?the current passes through the system as if there would be no inductance, hence insofar as the circuit including the break, C, and L, is concerned the system Lv Cv will comport itself as if it consisted of a short wire of inappreciable resistance?

Cliff,

Sorry for an ugly sketch, but it's all there:

Note that it is a single layer. You may wind as many layers as necessary: just make sure they are not connected to each other without decoupling.

I feel it's an insanely-looking collector, but if we are talking about displacement current I think it will work.

[wavez]

@Feynman

There doesn't appear to be any dry cell batteries for miles from where I am. It looks like my initial experiment will be built from a graphite pencil, ceramic cabinet magnets, and a soda can. Until I can order the rod and neos. If the soda can works for collecting the beta rays, then I'll have an aluminum cylinder machined.

[Feynman]

The output is DC with hash.  So now that makes sense.

Here's the thing... we do have a little bit of current, certainly enough to self-run and probably enough to also light some LEDs in the process, at least using one of these larger setups (nice toroid transformer, big N50 neos, etc).  We are certainly OU (COP>2).  And we can self-run.

We just can't scale the current up to the 'doing work' scale, aka 100W or higher. We are pretty sure we are wasting TONS of beta rays. (given that we can max out geiger counter far in excess of 1seivert when self-powering).  It's not for a lack of energy, because these beta rays are going near the damn speed of light.  That's huge electron kinetic energy.  This phenomenon is 100% real, we just have an engineering problem on our hands.  We need to A) convert beta rays to current, and B) capture as much beta ray 'flux' as possible for a given cross sectional area. 

And we need to figure out how to do this in a way that is easy to find materials for.  (aka no expensive nanoparticle quantum semiconductors). 

If the experiment with 1-5 ampere DC bias in the collector does not induce the beta particle 'flux cutting' we are expecting, here are the ways forward which I see at the present time, in no particular order.

A) Alek's layered winding approach with caps in series.   
B) Koen's NP-like junction
C) R's two-layer method
D) Zerotensor's LC tank oscillation from the flux-cutting patent


@waves
I will send you a carbon rod.

[aleks]

To that end, removing half of the capacitors in your circuit and
Connecting them in series.

Well, I'm thinking in a bit different terms here. Capacitors are there to reduce counter-action of displacement currents (and static charges that create these currents) appearing in coil segments independently. From what I understand, a single beta electron hitting the coil produces a small energy "ripple" along coil conductor. This ripple is propagated in both directions, and displaces free electrons in both directions (a new static charge - former beta electron - is being introduced into system). That is why I label both contacts of coil as "-". If two electrons strike the same coil at different positions the summary displacement current will be zero, but energy of colliding electrons will be turned into heat. That is why we need to de-couple windings so that independent beta electron strike events do not interfere with each other. Capacitor is good because it induces current on its other terminal, but this is an EM energy current - it does not introduce an electron into the system hence not causing counter-action.

So, capacitors do not block internal EM energy, but are used as a "block" (a kind of firewall) for charge's kinetic interaction between segments. This is important as this should increase energy output and reduce heating.

If you are connecting terminals in parallel mode you absolutely need independent capacitors. If you connect them in series you may use a single combined capacitance: but in my opinion this is not a good idea. I believe parallel connection should be more efficient as this will minimize inter-segment currents. When terminals are connected in parallel via capacitor they will be producing current in a single direction. In the essense, the whole multi-layered multi-segmented collector becomes a single combined "-" terminal.

OK, this is just long-handed theory. It may be completely wrong.