Looks like a load of BS to me. Ask him to demonstrate his on-demand lightning strike routine to you, but don't hold your breath until he does :)
Removal of the outside sphere in a spherical capacitor is not complicated BTW, just do it by bits. Only beware it takes work (energy) to pull the opposite charges of a capacitor apart. Michel 2009/6/16 John Berry <[email protected]> > > The invention is based on Faraday's problem: > Two concentric metal spheres do not touch and form a capcitor C. > That one is charged up to a potential V. > Then the outside sphere is removed. > The remaining sphere is a 1-terminal Capacitor c. > The potential on that sphere is momentarily C/c x V. > > It is stated in the physics Books that it is virtually impossible to do in > practice, so when I offered the Invention to Canada in 1967 as a Birthday > Present, I was told that I was not a Patriot, I was an Idiot. It could never, > ever be done in practice. > The "Scientists" kept the denial, accompanied with ridicule and insults, up > to four months after the patents were granted. > Then, as they had lost "face", they called it a Minor Invention. > My US Patent Lawyer predicted the Nobel Prize. > > I read that you have a large fluorescent tubw. That may not work. > That powder that is pasted to the glass will hinder the proper working in > thia circuit. > Maybe you can get a UV tube and wrap some Aluminum foil on the outside. > When that tube is fired you have a 2-terminal Capacitor, which you can charge > up to an higher DC Voltage. > Now you can use "Momentarily On" type Toggle switches but you cannot activate > them using your bare hands. You must use plastic rods. Otherwise you may > break your arm like I almost did when I used one tube and got a 150,000 volt > poke. The switches would stand 250 V in insulation but not that type of > voltage. > The easiest way to make a power supply is: > Use a 12 Volt Car battery. Construct a transistor convertor, that runs in a > frequency of around 400 c/s. You can use 60 c/s but then the next part of the > high voltage may get too warm. > If you have the Reference Book for Radio Engineers, you will find a circuit > for a ladder/ multiplier circuit. In my edition there was a mistake. Make > sure that the "(" part of the capacitor is not connected to the + side in the > circuit. I used capacitors that were about .047, rated at 400 volts. I got > from a bunch of them around 4,000 volts, with a tap at 1200 Volts to fire > the tube. > Now, when I did it from my basement workshop, using only one tube, I fired > the tube, used the second toggle switch to charge the capacitor and next > released the switches. I got a heck of a poke, an explosion was heard outside > and the lights went out. > I went ouside and found the big Power Transformer on a pole, 150 feet away, > in flames. All of sudden there were two American Fighter planes, from the > base in Rochester , across Lake Ontario from my hometown Ajax, circling my > house. The guys flew as slow as possible and they were craning their necks to > see if they could see something. After a few minutes they left. I was called > out and when I came home, a new Power Transformer had been installed. Luckily > the Power Company blamed a squirrel. My TV and HiFi had been zapped. I bought > a slew of transistors and fixed both sets. > I measured the output of the unit in my Faraday Cage and found that I had > generated 150,00 volts. A few weeks later I used three tubes, using plastic > rods to activate the circuit. A scream from the kids, above my basement > workshop, informed me that the TV was on the blink again and so was the HiFi. > Then the telephones started to ring. All my neigbors, left, right, across the > road and behind me wondered if I could have a look at their TV. Being one of > these ultra "Good" type of neighbors I fixed all sets for free but did not > experiment at home anymore. > Next experiment was in the "sticks", the countryside. > I noticed a gaggle of Canada Geese in a Cornfield, where they were sampling > the quality of the ears. > I parked under a tree. I connected the output of the unit wih a wire to > Dogscrew, whith I put in the ground. It had been raining hard one half hour > before but now the sky was blue. I measured the polarity of the ground, it > wss negative. I figured that if I made the ground positive, these Geese > should fly up. > I went inside my truck and gave one pulse. One Goose flew up. > The second pulse made them all fly up. The third pulse invited a lightning > strike on the tree, set it on fire, scared the daylights out of me and some > poor rough-looking farm dogs, that had just arrived to check my credentials. > They were instantly transformed into the fastest whippets you have ever seen. > After ten minutes the fire extinguished and I went home. The three tubes > generated 500,000 Volts. > > So, if you do any experimenting you should do it in an closed, all-metal > garden shed. First make sure, that all the metal parts are electrically > connected. Remove your digital watch and your cell phone. If you have a tube > Radio, you can have that going but no transistorized anythings (I hope you do > not have a heart pacer, or it will be the last thing you do.). > When I did it, there was only a little bit of "transitorized" in the > electronics but now you can zap TV's, Computers and Cell Phones! > Even your Car computer! > You will understand why I did not want a University involved. Any student > with a grudge could zap all the files and work of years. > The lawyers will have a feast day if they find out. > > This is the device, that is inside these big spheres that Flying Saucers > have. In many newer crafts you do not see the spheres but hey are there! > > The instant High Voltage depends on the fast extinguishing of the tube. > A fluoresent tube will have that fluoresing going for a while and mess up > your experment. > > I got an e-mail from someone,who was doing it on his kitchen table. He had it > running, usuing a small motor to activate the swithes, stood up to get a cup > of coffie from the stove. A kind of lightning strike hit the unit, gave his > wife almost a heart attack and destroyed the kitchen table. > His TV was on the blink too. > So you will understand that it is not a toy. > I suggested to Dr. Teller, who was working on an anti-missile missile, that > they should equip it with this device. Any attacking missile would have lt's > electronics destroyed. They tried it, it worked. It is known as the E-Bomb. > Then someone from his group sold the invention for good money to an > "friendly" country. That "friendly" country used it successfully to destroy a > Japanese Spy Satellite. > Then the USA DOD refused to pay me, as the secrecy was compromised. > The seller lives now in luxury in a South American Country without > extradiction policies with the USA. > Now everybody is equipping the missiles with miniature tubes. > > When I sent a copy of the Patent to the Nasa Propulsion Lab in Cleveland, > Ohio, the guys were aghast; > Who would need them if we could fly to the Moon in an hour, no matter where > it was located, without heat-shields, barf-bags or osteoporosis. > They were bein ppaid big bucks and were not going t kill the Goose that laid > Golden Eggs. "Not Interested, thank you for the copy of your Patent!" > > Then we had the space disasters. > They decided to experiment with it, did not ask me for advice and blew the > big Power Transformer Sation on their grounds to Kingdom Come and blamed a > poor innocent little tree for the big black-out in parts of the USA and > Canada, four years ago. > > So since then they will fight tooth and nail to make sure that every space > craft will use rockets. > > Tesla used an application of the invention to tap power out of the aether for > his electric Piece Arrow Car in 1931. He refused to divulge how it worked as > he realixed that the system could also be used to supply electric power to > any dwelling on earth. The investors of the Niagara Falls Power Plant, > Pierpont Morgan and Rockefeller, would have had him murdered then and there. > He did not take a patent out but I did. > > I am now slowly working on a systen to supply home power first. > > > Well John, I hope that you have enough info to try one and another. > Let me know how everything pans out. > Regards, Joseph Hiddink
