For the third time: Check out Krytron technology!!! It used a small amount of radioactive Nickel to speed the rise time of the discharge. Papp almost certainly used Radium for the same purpose.
Quoting "Spark Gap and Triggered Gap Tubes<http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/sparkgaps.html> ": The krytron is a high speed, high current gas filled tube. This tube can switch thousands of amps at thousands of volts. It is similar to a thyratron except that it is a 4 terminal device. The fourth terminal is a "keep alive" electrode that maintains a glow discharge in the tube at all times. This make the tube much faster and the timing more uniform. There is also a small amount of radioactive Nickel in the tube. The ionization helps further stabilize the propagation delay. On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > I think James could be correct that the choice of noble gases is NOT a stage > prop. > > However, and once again - keep in mind that Papp used radium as his prime > energy source, and his patent makes this clear... the noble gases he used > could have been important but ancillary in a surprising way. > > Papp's original IP is entitled: "Method & Means of Converting Atomic Energy > Into Utilizable Kinetic Energy". The Rohner's and other scammers who came > along later have clearer wanted to dodge this all-important issue of nuclear > power, because they cannot legally obtain radium, which is probably the sine > qua non for a working Papp engine. They cannot work without it. > > The most interesting detail, for real science - is why Papp used this > particular mix instead of hydrogen. It probably was important and NOT a > stage prop, as mentioned. This rationale could actually involve a real > discovery by him - and it could related to gas interaction with an alpha > emitter. That would be especially true of helium - which is the bulk of the > mix, and is essentially a neutralized alpha. > > In short, the real discovery of Papp, unbeknownst to even himself, could > relate to quantum correlation fields and entanglement. > > Here is my favorite citation for "wisdom from comic books" > http://marvel.wikia.com/Probability_field > > ....and it is strangely apropos for fringe inventor and his 300 mph > submarine. > > Jones > > From: James Bowery > > Observing all the trouble Papp went to during the fueling of > his engine, it is rather difficult to believe that the noble gas was a mere > stage prop. > See: > http://inteligentry.com/shared/PappW/4-Fueling.mp4 > Jojo Jaro wrote: > > Funny, but Papp may have found a clever and "magician trick" > way of running an internal combustion engine making it appear to be > overunity. With the process appearing to work with normal air, and now > hydrogen, the noble gas "mixture" may just have been a convenient and > effective "magician's sleight of hand technique" to divert attention from > his engine just being an ordinary Internal Combustion Engine. Everybody was > focusing on the "novelty" of using a certain "magic formula" of noble gases > that nobody bothered to check the energy balance. I believe this is what > happened. > >
