ENERGY AMPLIFICATION

[a.king21]

Dave45 and all:
Take a look at this:  Food for thought.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI_HFnNTfyU

[Dave45]

Dave45 and all:
Take a look at this:  Food for thought.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI_HFnNTfyU

Cool I hadnt seen that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tJfqMYHaQw

[Tito L. Oracion]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt9wTAL5KoU

[MarkE]

Thanks Mark for your helping input, your comment made me look at the reasoning.
The reasoning behind two diodes
If we look at a full wave bridge, in my understanding, a coil pulsed with ac has both pos and neg pulses on each end of a coil.
If only one diode is used the end with the diode will stay either pos or neg depending on the diode's orientation but the other end will receive both pos and neg pulses which will cause the ions on that end to join back together since both pos and neg ions are being formed.

A full wave bridge may work better but the half wave may cause tension in the field being only half is being rectified.

Dave your intuition is misleading you.  The reason that a full wave bridge has diodes at both ends of a coil is that a single diode approximates a single pole single throw switch, and in order to ful-wave rectify an AC signal, two single pole double throw switches are needed.  We can make an SPDT switch out of two SPST switches.  IE we can get half of the DPDT switch with two diodes on one end of the transformer, and the second half with two more at the other end.  However, a half wave rectifier only needs to block reverse conduction, so a simple SPST switch, IE single diode is completely adequate.

[MarkE]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVWquWFjnCw

It takes alot of energy to ionize matter but very little to ionize air.

Air is matter.  What are you trying to get at?
Ionization energy depends on the material.  Heavy atoms including gases ionize much more easily than light atoms for all the reasons in the linked video.  A funny side note is that this elementary bit of chemistry was completely unknown to Dr. Dr. Con, John Rohner who unstated many times that the helium in his cylinders ionizes first and the xenon last, when precisely the opposite is true.