On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
If you feel like brain-storming today, please list any suggestions for > low-cost improvements to the typical glow-stick experiment, such as the > one of MFMP - and say why your suggestion could work in theory. I suggest the kanthal heating element be replaced with a tungsten one, inside the reactor core, such that it will (a) have current running through it and (b) be exposed to the hydrogen. The theory behind this is that one isotope of tungsten is an alpha emitter and for several others alpha decay is energetically allowed. A combination of electric current and hydrogen may induce increased activity. All of the energy of the alphas will be thermalized in the reactor, in contrast to induced electron capture, where almost no energy will be thermalized, and induced beta decay, where roughly 1/3 of the peak energy of the beta will be thermalized. Eric
