It seems like a reciprocating Papp engine would need to have a cyclic pressurization, not something the continually increases pressure as you are describing. I thought the reported mechanism had a way to catalyze pressure increase electrically and then the pressure returned to the prior lower pressure state. From this cyclic pressure, mechanical energy was extracted.
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:31 AM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > I wrote: > > If he knew our trick, one of these naturally occurring isotopes might >> have done the trick: >> > > Since tungsten is in the list, and in our day to day experience it does > not decay under alpha decay when we excited it with electrons, I'm guessing > the Q value has to be above a certain threshold in order for the effect to > be obvious (if such an effect exists). Here is a shorter version of the > previous list, with tungsten left at the end as an impractical lower bound: > > e- + 234U => e- + 4He + 230Th + 4858 keV > e- + 235U => e- + 4He + 231Th + 4678 keV > e- + 238U => e- + 4He + 234Th + 4270 keV > e- + 232Th => e- + 4He + 228Ra + 4082 keV > e- + 190Pt => e- + 4He + 186Os + 3252 keV > e- + 209Bi => e- + 4He + 205Tl + 3137 keV > e- + 184Os => e- + 4He + 180W + 2957 keV > e- + 186Os => e- + 4He + 182W + 2820 keV > e- + 187Os => e- + 4He + 183W + 2721 keV > e- + 180W => e- + 4He + 176Hf + 2515 keV > > Of these, only 190Pt was in the earlier list of impurities found in > palladium. > > Eric > >
