Source of energy, Testatika

[TinselKoala]

Thanks, I'll look for the book. Maybe there's an answer to my question in there.

[mikewatson]

Paul Brown's Nuclear battery:-"The Half-Life of a Nuclear Battery" by Philip H. Talbert ISBN 978-0-615-23375-8 published 2008. Amazon have it.
also:- http://www.rexresearch.com/nucell/nucell.htm

[gauschor]

What if both of these were only milliVolts?

Linden Experiment: 700 Volts
Principle Experiment: 60 Volts

Linden Experiment: holding a sandwich (copper-paper-aluminium) in between 2 fingers and measure the voltage. If you have somehow wet skin you'll achieve a value ranging from 500-700mV. I verified it myself.

Principle Experiment: charging up a cap to 60mV using the specified setup may just work for this. If anyone has replicated the setup please try it out. I will do myself, but I don't have access to building material for a while. I am quite certain the 10 rotations may work for the low amount milliVolts.

The only thing which seems to disprove the above mentioned is that a crackling sound was heard as Baumann discharged the opposite poles of the cap against each other. That wouldn't be possible with such low amount of Volts...

[Shanti]

Sure it is possible to directly convert radioactive energy to electricity, this knowledge is about as old as the discovery of radioactivity.
But you need strong radioactive stuff. As it seems, Brown used directly radioactive stuff, which IMHO we can exclude for Baumann's devices, as it is highly unlikely he could have got this stuff, and he also said, that he doesn't use radioactive stuff.
There would only be the possibility to extremely excite any very low radioactive stuff (which Baumann maybe wouldn't have termed radioactive) . And as I said, the excitement would then have had to be extreme! IMHO very unlikely. Sure I do think it is possible to excite radioactive decay, but not with these factors! This would IMHO have surely already long been discovered by mainstream science.
I also strongly suspect that Brown's battery developed quite some heat.  I don't know, did it?


Then we have the problem, of where should the radioactive stuff have been hidden? As we now know, it certainly wasn't in the long rear tubes. And if we believe in the various reports, there was not much space left in the big pots.
As S&S could ,AFAIK as the only persons, take a machine apart, and didn't see anything special except some different metals and coils and  the perspex stuff, I just wouldn't know, where the radioactive source should have been hidden.


It is also not compatible with the many hints Baumann gave, upon the working principle of the machine. He also clearly said to S&S, that it takes "electricity from the air".
Also to various other visitors he and also Bosshard always explained the machines in that way, that they get their energy from air ions.
So either they lied, but then the whole story becomes anyways shady and a fake would IMHO be more likely than the radioactive theory, or the machines did really get the power from the air.
But then we still have, as I already mentioned,  the other hints about the machines, which are IMHO just not compatible with the radioactive source theory:
* the machine stopped after a while in a closed room.
* the machine didn't work in a faraday cage
* the machine did output more power during a thunderstorm


Therefore is my personal conclusion: Did it use a radioactive source? Possible, but very unlikely.


@gauschor:
As you said, the loud bang after he shorted the caps is surely not compatible with a wrong reading. But this is not the case for the Linden-Experiment...

[mikewatson]

I believe Baumann died a year ago, so unless he passed the secret on we may never know how the testatika worked.