Is this a Joule thief?

[guruji]

Hi guys did you see this video it looks like a joule thief.
Any ideas?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MYVmtF4JYg&NR=1

[onthecuttingedge2005]

Hi guys did you see this video it looks like a joule thief.
Any ideas?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MYVmtF4JYg&NR=1

Hi guruji.

I think it is a TPU.

you know the funny thing is, if I take a beta decaying metal or an alpha decaying metal and extrude it out into a wire and wind it into a loop I can generate a lot of Electricity from the radioactive decay of the conductor, in terms, converting MeV to watts in units of energy per half life of the Radionuclide and the energy emitted per cm^2 per second.

it would be self contained and shielded by epoxy resin encasement. Alpha and Beta can be blocked by Epoxy.

one would have to figure out the exact energy decay level that would allow a radioisotope to produce electricity without any Gamma ray production for to much energy.

for instance, with 96Zr or 96-Zirconium I could produce a lot of usable electricity but since the B- decay energy level of 96-Zirconium is so high it would produce some Gamma ray emissions.

if I was to Alloy 10Be or 10-Beryllium with Copper I could lower the shielding requirements to a moderate epoxy level and generate a pretty good some of Watts based on a radioactive coil winding emitting Beta- rays inside the unit.

just some thoughts I wanted to share. it would work very well as a selfcontained energy system over the life span of the active isotope.

[dimbulb]

steven mark never disclosed how to make the tpu.
There are alot of hints but it has'nt progressed.
some would say it has but they cannot plug in light bulbs without input.

I tryed to find proof of the blocking oscillator going back about 1926.
yes there were television builders at that time radio also, 1925?
Later MIT used JT for radar that was hushed during the ww2 war
and then shows again with medical device, the pacemaker.


The tpu  does'nt form a joulethief it's unlike anything I 've seen before.