----- Original Message -----
From: "Frederick Sparber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: Energy, Force and Gravity
Michel Jullian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Fred wrote"
> Do atoms spontaneously ionize at high values of E?
Yes they do Fred, that's how the "soft ionization membrane" works: it's a
capacitor like you describe with holes in it, through which you push the
gas
you want to ionize.
Michel
Thanks Michel.
That being the case, would a Pd "soft ion membrane" act as
a deuteron accelerator if hooked something like
this with 5.0 millimeter spacing, (E = 10e7 volts/meter) or so?
D2 gas in grounded can
+ 50 KV ------------------------Pd membrane
vacuum
- 50 KV ___________________
vacuum
If by this you mean:
D2 gas in grounded can
grounded + lead of 50 kV supply ------------------------Pd membrane
vacuum
- lead of 50 kV supply ___________________
vacuum or whatever
then if the field is higher then D ionization field (= H ionization field I
guess), which I don't know, the answer is yes. Your deuterons should crash
into the bottom plate with 50 keV energy. The stripped electrons will travel
through the Pd, the + lead of the supply, the supply, the - lead, and will
neutralize the arriving deuterons.
A typical "soft ionization membrane" is much thinner than this, of the order
of 1 µm near the holes I seem to remember, and works with a few volts I
believe (Google it up, so you'll know what kind of e-field value is used).
Yet another nice thought experiment :)
Michel
Fred
