Single circuits generate nuclear reactions

[callanan]

Hi all, may I suggest the following setup.

[Sprocket]

I read a few pages back that PN layers might make good beta collectors - isn't there supposed to be a "diode-effect" between two dissimilar metals?  Would this be equivalent to a giant diode and a good collector?  Just throwing it out there

[Inventor81]

I don't like the spiral.

I love it.

And I hate it.

'cause it probbably won't work as well as what I just came up with, due to the shielding effect...

also, if you're going to go with a wrapped shielding, try putting the magnets on the ends of the rod. Check my latest render on p9 for an idea... the funky bean shaped things are the toroid cores, which act as a yoke to focus the beta particle stream into the collector. I've got to adjust a few things on that diagram, but we'll give this description a shot down below.

Total mad props to figuring that one out, though - we should get constructive charge/current/etc. buildup off the device with that, however.... take a look at this..

actually... I don't have a render yet, or a photo - i just finished dinner.

what i'm thinking of is a really tight, insulated "coil" of foil, but instead of wound in a spiral, it's a squiggle around the carbon rod. Infinitely stackable, and gives a nice grazing angle to take advantage of the circular B field around the beta particle.

One interesting thing that I thought of - along with some info from Feynman - in supersonic flows, i.e. incompressible flows - it is better to have many oblique shocks than a singe normal shock. I.e. it is better to form a shockwave across which the Mach number changes a little bit, and have several shocks one after the other, than to have a single shock where you go from hypersonic speed to sub mach-1 speeds. Lots of losses due to heat (lossy interparticle collisions, etc.) and you get worse pressure recovery into your engine inlet, for example, and higher drag for the overall aircraft.

So, initially I was thinking to make something like a traditional arch, where bricks are stacked along an arc and mortared together. In this case, the bricks are replaced with foil strips/squares, and the mortar is a thin, low density insulator ( in my case, pure, real cellophane, as in polymerized cellulose film) It's got enough holes in it to allow water to pass through, so I figure i'll cut some squares and have a go at insulating the individual plates from one another, and then connect the plates in series.

Then, of course, as I think about it - i can just use one continuous strip, wound back and forth and back and forth. Then I just pull my power right off the plate.

Will report back ASAP - but again, I can't verify that I'm getting beta unless I get voltage off my latest micro generator. So far it still fits inside a beer bottle cap, minus the 2 9V batteries I'm powering it with. Yes, it's hot-glued into a beer bottle cap.

Wahoo!

Theoreticians come up with wacky ways of building crap, don't we?

[Inventor81]

Ha!

I talked to UncleFester about that last night, as did Feynman.

We got some smart sumbiches up'n hurrr.

Yisserrreeeeee Bob!

I guess it's a good sign that we all keep coming up with very similar ideas - so maybe we're not all crazy?

[poynt99]

@Feynman

an electrical schematic of your setup with the inverter/transformer/capacitor etc. would be appreciated, thanks.

seems like a new page every few hours--good work guys.