-----Original Message----- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax > I understand that the reaction may be acoustically noisy, so a little sensitive microphone, an imaging setup to record video of the cathode, many possibilities.
Good suggestion. Given that the sound card (or equivalent) in most computers can be adapted to provide A/D conversion, analysis and simple oscilloscope functionality, it might be possible to tie it into a data-logging situation. That would provide an extra bit of credibility to the end result. >Here is a site on a "UV card" http://www.south-seas.com/uvcard2.html > A UV signature, while certainly interesting, and, nicely, cheap, isn't as obviously diagnostic of nuclear effect as is charged-particle radiation or maybe neutrons. I question that conclusion. It is very hard for me to imagine how any charged particle radiation could NOT be "encouraged" to produce UV. Simply providing a fluorescent dye should be adequate to convert. Since several dyes could be incorporated, a kind of rudimentary spectroscopy is possible (with a few hundred man-years of engineering, that is ;-) But - if this putative device could be well-engineered, due to DoE (ARPA or maybe DARPA) involvement - then the advantage of having it mass-produced and all tied into a USB port for data-logging on the PC makes a ton of sense... so that additionally there could essentially be many overlapping tests - .... that would really add to the credibility - one test for audible noise in several ranges (with a micro - piezo transducer incorporated), and another for test for light, in several spectra - with a photocell (or several small ones). All of these components could be etched onto the same chip (in the ideal situation of 'spare no cost') in the same way that medical diagnostics are being done, already. The entire device could be smaller than a mouse, and be adaptable to standardized samples, which could be dime-sized chips which are plated with reactants and sealed with ultrathin pyrex or equivalent. In fact, the end product might look very much like one of the small San-Disk card memory card readers. Well - these are the wishful things that are only available in an advanced society where $2 trillion recklessly spent on 8 years of unnecessary war are shifted away from that, and into productive ventures. Jones
