hydrogen would remain free and unionized.
Ha! should be un-ionized, unless hydrogen is orgainizing; or going into labor ;-{
But after cogitating on the overall situation of 'how to harvest' (if, that is, the putative solar wind derived Hy- is available in sufficient quantities) there is an obvious solution. BTW we may already have the visible proof of hydrinos and never have really appreciated it (Thanks to Alfven himself) ...
OK first - the balloon idea - forget it; it is a waste of time - as are normal satellite-robots.
One does not need to put anything into orbit. A ballon for this task "will not fly" as they are needed in polar regions. Curiously, we can even now, as we speak, view the ripe harvestable "field" and have historically already given it a name: Aurora borealis. Yes the "Northern Lights" as we know are caused by the interaction between the solar wind and ionospehre, that is we know for certain - and what we can only guess at is that this phenomena is caused in part by the Hy- species itself. The Hy- interacts as the Earth's magnetic field and then deflects into the upper atmosphere, where ionized air interacts with the wind for a fleeting instant as it passes by. Very little is captured. There are apparently some controversial spectrographic lines documanted in the Aurorae (more on that later) which were detected some time ago and given assignmetns which did not "look right".
A similar effect happens in the southern hemisphere where it is known as the aurora Australis. If those lines are due to the hydrino, then we may already have the proof needed - but no one really knew then what they were. I do not think that even Mills knows about this today. And in another synchonicity, one of Hannes Alfven's fifty year old books is in a personal collection which I have access to.
The Purple/violet streaks are the ones of interest - only 60 miles in altitude. It is fortuitous that the higher energy streaks are the lowest in altitude. BTW, there is 20 million amperes at 50,000 volts of continuous power in these lines, spread over a large area - which can also power the harvester itself by induction, and consequently it can be a reusable vehicle closer to an airplane than a satellite; and need not be "launched" at all. The harvester can be towed up to 3 or 4 miles in altitude by a tanker, and then use a monopropellant to blast up to 60 miles for a single harvesting pass of around a thousand mile loop, then return and land conventionally at a special landing strip in Alaska, give up the cargo, refuel and do it all over again - several trips per day. Tons per day are possible.
This is doable. There is no need for high-tech ballons, nor for expensive satellites. Branson could pull this-off out of pocket change (almost ;-)
Jones
