>From Bill: >> 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?
Dang! Another dad-blamed unexplained asymmetry lost in the woodwork... Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
