Where are the regular vortician posters lately? Doing world-altering
experiments, hopefully.... anyway....
Horace Heffner wrote:
OBJECTIVE
It is the objective here to document and further explore electron
affinity based charge transport as well as dry pile and other related
concepts.
Nice essay. Let me point out one further potential device which might
benefit from this e- affinity concept (don't laugh, this could be a big
seller) : an improved version of the Crookes radiometer !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crookes_radiometer
... where the vanes can be bimetalic (trimetalic) multi-layered or
whatever, and with facing vanes of the maximum difference in electron
affinity.
In addition to the explanations normally ascribed to the Crookes M.O.,
like thermal transpiration, there would be possible a boosting of RPMs
by an electric field. Or not.
Only problem is, it is not clear which side:
1) hot - thermal-absorber (or black)
2) cold - thermal-reflector (or white)
would benefit from donating electron, and vice-versa ...
In the Crookes tube, the white side moves forward because it is colder
but not because of any kind of "photon pressure" or counter effect,
since photons are massless. However electrons are massive, so the
resultant situation with an electron (ion) flux is this:
Would the non-ballistic emission of electrons from an e- donor vane in
the tube create a slight equal and opposite effect on the vane?
Obviously, a normal cathode emission would do this, but we are not
talking about a real cathode emission...
... and/or at the same time, would adsorption by the collector plate
decelerate that plate even more than its back side is being accelerated,
so that rotation goes the other way ?
That could be quickly discovered with a flexible design.
It is even possible that using the Reynolds/Maxwell enhancement to
Crookes - that of porous vanes; but by making the porosity in the form
of tapered holes (conical), then the result could be a "needle emission"
effect on the donor side, which more closely resemble a ballistic
cathode emission...
also, as an enhancement,perhaps the use of a higher pressure gas, but
much more mobile, such as hydrogen (>1 torr ?) becomes possible. Hg is a
real drag, so to speak.
Jones
