Hi Russ
Sorry I assumed you had the same stuff in your buckets as Bob, your comments make more sense now. But needless to say if its highly radioactive its dangerous. Bob uses no precautions in handling it. In the Tesla* video he even got some on his fingers. I do hope he washed before eating lunch!
The alpha particles from the thorium will not penetrate the bucket it struggles to get through paper. So nestled inside the buckets its effectively out of range and could not effect the plasma. The red phosphorus and rubidium do not appear to have any function. rubidium is even less radioactive than thorium. Red Phosphorous will burn at 260c but again as its in the bucket its safely tucked away and probably can be ignored.
The sound you got while impressive, does not appear to be in the same order as Bobs. Bobs was impressive a much more 'solid' bang. Hearing as you may recall is logarithmic which means a little louder actually requires a LOT more energy. Logarithmic hearing is why we can hear a mouse squeak, and not go deaf during a thunderstorm.
You are definitely getting a plasma discharge. Without it no current would flow, so you must be getting some. We see it every time you discharge your circuit. As far as I am aware and correct me if I am wrong. Bobs design does not use the chamber as the anode. Therefore the only plasma developed is directly between the the two high voltage spark gaps. the rest of the gas (99%) will never become ionised and therefore will never reach a plasma state. To increase the amount of plasma will probably require a central cathode and using the chamber walls as an anode. This applies to your device as much as Bobs. John on the other hand I believe uses radio frequency excitement to get the gases into a plasma state. This has the potential of ionising all the gas in the chamber.
Here is an interesting link
http://www.angelfire.com/80s/sixmhz/rfplasmasource.htmlWhen I said write it down I meant voltage, spark gaps, etc.. unless you orate them they will not be logged on the videos. Sitting down afterwards looking at the table of figures can often provide useful information on what to try next. A spreadsheet and same graphs would come in ultra handy.
You know as do most people here that I do not think Bobs device is the real thing. So I am keen to help you replicate it to show you that its little more than a simple thermodynamic device. Personally I think the buckets of 'radioactive' material are nothing more than the equivalent of eye of newt in a witches broth. Bob has kindly ruled out magnetic induction and stored pneumatic pressure so that only leaves a thermodynamic process.
BUT if its not a thermodynamic process and Papp discovered a hitherto unknown nuclear reaction involving noble gasses in a plasma state then you are playing with very very dangerous material. But I am confident that is not the case, many billions has been spent understanding plasma in the last 30 or so years. It is integral to nuclear fusion and I doubt plasma physicists are that dumb to miss a little thing like a nuclear reaction in the plasma state at low energy levels, especially considering they regularly take it up to many millions of degrees C. nonetheless plasma is an interesting subject with much more to be learnt, of which I know almost none.
(Yesterday 07:13 PM)CuriousChris Wrote: Ok I am back again for another tongue lashing.
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And i strapped myself in my chair so no worries this time..Wink
Greetingsss....
Ahhh I meant to get another tongue lashing, not to give one. You'll know when I give one
;)Do not be distracted by opinionated followers trying to direct your brilliant
work.
As this is just Chan's opinion I guess we should ignore it. Or should we ignore only the opinions we don't happen to agree with, Hmmm?
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*I do hate how so many people use Tesla as some sort of validation for their crank science.