On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Mark Iverson wrote:
and he has also related to me that on more than one occasion, the 'firing' of the Z-pinch machine has resulted in anomalous energy that could not be explained, and instruments all seemed to be working properly... don't think they ever tracked it down since they have deadlines and budgets as well.
Peter Graneau had a short paper where he discharged a large energy-storage capacitor into a stack of carbon resistor pucks. The measured energy (integrated scope V-I waveforms) was quite a bit larger than the 0.5*C*V^2 value. I don't recall if he went further in doing precise in/out accounting.
So maybe you can heat your home by cap discharge? Perhaps the spark gap working gas is important?
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