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From: Ron Wormus"
Assuming that Naudin's Svetlana tubes are modified we need to
know what mods have been applied to the std. Svetlana tube.
Ron,
I'm preparing a list of detailed questions to present to Nicholas
Moller. He seems to be responsive to inquiries and eager to help,
and has said that he definitely wants this to be an "open source"
project and independently replicated endeavor. His heart seems to
be in the right place and GIFNET is not-for-profit.
However, I did expect to see a schematic wiring diagram soon, and
it hasn't turned up yet. But again, we Yanks are a very impatient
sort and Europeans treat the July holiday much more seriously than
we do... which is to their credit - except...of course, when one
is dealing with what could be either the experiment of the
millennium... or not.
I believe the Moller specs say that the tube wall has a 1 mm
sputtered W coating ... pretty thick for sputtering! I wonder
if Fred & Jones idea of using Pd, Rh, or Ru in some combination
would be as good as or better than the sputtered W. Could any of
these be plated to the wall instead of sputtered to make
fabrication easier.
All of the metals, can be plated (usually from the chloride) but
the plasma spraying, which is close to the same thing as
sputtering (one can assume) will create a much rougher textured
surface, at least in practice. This maximized surface area must
surely be important, but on the anode? If the anode is the active
area, then why not use a cold cathode?
Obviously W was chosen initially because of the operating premise
being the Langmuir torch.
If LENR were suspected as the OU, then Pd or Ti would be the
choice. Both are also Mills catalysts.
Mills used to use Ni at a cathode, but has other better catalysts
in his chart- listed in order of lowest IP target they would be
1st IP - Be, Pt, Te, Zn
2nd IP - Te, Pb
3) many
Zinc telluride is interesting and covers a lot of bases.
But in all of the thousands of man-hours of testing for
fuel-cells, I have been told by a leading expert that a Pd-Ru
alloy of ~50/50 is superior to anything yet seen, and that
non-reproducible OU has even been seen in fuel-cells (anecdotal)
using Pd-Ru. There is an expired patent for this and it is what I
would use, if cost were no object, which it always is.
In any case, I don't think we are even sure if it is wired as a
grid or a filament so I guess we just need to wait for more
information.
Good point. Naudin calls it a "filament," and the French word for
filament is the same, whereas grid = grille so it does not seem to
be a communication problem.
So... one must ask, where is the triode grill, no? ... and Terry,
thanks for finding that bit about the 2.4 GHz resonance. I totally
missed that - but it probably means that they had intended to try
to power this beast with a commercial magnetron !!
More later,
Jones
