In reply to Harry Veeder's message of Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:10:55 -0400: Hi, [snip] >so the thermodynamic anomaly (lack of warming) can be explained by a >cycle of ionization/de-ionization? [snip] A change in "n" in an otherwise adiabatic system will almost certainly result in a change in pressure, but how the temperature will react I can't predict.
However the real question IMO is does it do any net work? From the video I got the impression that it converted a few tens of Watts of electrical power into hundreds to thousands of hp, so the answer to that would have to be yes. That then raises the question, where does the energy come from? John seems to think it's from Helium fusion, and he may be correct, however I doubt it. A Mills type reaction, possibly with a helium ion rather than a Hydrogen atom, seems much more likely to me, *possibly* with fusion reaction at the end of the shrinkage process. At one point in video I watched he also let slip "Hydrogen and Helium", so perhaps there is also some Hydrogen present, and it's a pure Mills reaction after all. Note that at least some of the noble gasses do tend to form Mills catalysts when ionized. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
