On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.google.com/patents/US3977191 > > The AIROPS engine is a noble gas engine like the Papp engine. > I noticed that Robert Gordon Britt, the author of the patent, did not refer to Papp's patents as prior art. I was unable to determine where the energy for the electrical arc was coming from; I assume he's just plugging the engine into an external power source, and that any locomotive power-out will be less than or equal to the electrical power-in of the external source. At a minimum, assuming Britt's patent was for a working device, it shows that the basic idea of an engine that uses noble gases is sound, if we were in doubt that Papp's engine was a real engine. This uses UV to produce plasma expansion just like Holmlid does. > Note that Holmlid is seeing a current of 1e13 particles per laser shot, with peaks at ~ 4, 10 and 14 MeV [1]. That has "nuclear reaction" of some written kind all over it, in addition to the question of what is going on with the UV. Eric [1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.2781.pdf
