Dear Dave,

This may help

http://brilliantlightpower.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/TechnicalPresentation1.8.16.pdf

These are the slides used in the demo

Slide 53 and/or 57 are what you might need to see what you want.

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Dave,
> I am not sure what you say is entirely true.  The 10V source can provide
> direct heating to a certain temperature, and can create a plasma from
> electron impact.  A plasma is comprised of ionized gas.  However, the ions
> don't need to be bare nuclei, and typically are not for anything but a
> hydrogen plasma.  Normally 1 or 2 electrons are lost from the ions, in this
> case, Ag in vapor phase.  The 10V can produce electron ionization up to
> about 10eV energy.  This would correspond to a deep UV photon of 124nm
> (produced during restoration of the electron), which can reach fairly deep
> into the shells of the Ag atoms.
>
> However, the spectrum Mills showed contained soft x-ray, probably in the
> 100eV range (I could not read the axis of the graph he showed).  Even this
> probably does not represent ionization (and re-combination) of the inner
> shells of the Ag electron orbitals.  But, achieving 100eV soft x-ray
> ionization with 10eV needs some explanation.  Mills would say it came from
> catalyzed shrinkage of the hydrogen orbital to a fractional quantum state.
> The question is, could it have come from an alternative mechanism?  For
> example, in the very strong magnetic field, could multiple 10eV electrons
> contribute to an 100eV ionization?  What else could be responsible?
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 11:32 PM, David Roberson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> I have a comment regarding the source voltage and the spectrum generated
>> by a plasma heated by that voltage.  The 10 volt supply can be used to
>> generate heating of the plasma due to the power absorbed by the plasma.
>> The resulting high temperature can ionize the plasma by itself and
>> therefore the radiation energy that results from the recombination of the
>> electron with the ion should be independent of the supply voltage.
>>
>> If my above thought process is accurate then a 1 volt source would be
>> capable of initiating 10 eV radiation if it can supply enough local heat to
>> the system and that energy of radiation is possible when the ion
>> recombines.  Perhaps we should not be too concerned about the source
>> voltage and instead concentrate upon the source power.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Eric Walker <[email protected]>
>> To: vortex-l <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Thu, Feb 4, 2016 8:51 pm
>> Subject: Re: [Vo]:BLP demo video
>>
>> I wrote:
>>
>> I think Mills also mentioned soft x-rays early on, which are in the low
>>> keV.  And the spectrum he spent time discussing had an endpoint somewhere
>>> above 100 eV.  Such photons would presumably come from the excitation of
>>> inner shell electrons in heavier elements such as silver.
>>>
>>
>> I recall that the photons were mostly broadband, while emissions from
>> de-excitation of inner shell electrons would be characteristic (sharp).  So
>> if the broadband spectra went back to energetic beta electrons, perhaps
>> they were due to bremsstrahlung instead.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>
>

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