In the history of the Josef Papp saga, Gene Mallove took a special interest in a few details that are not well-known.
There was a video of a US Navy military sponsored explosion, a "cannon" reported by Gene to have used Papp's technology. I haven't seen the video, but it is available from IE. What would be more interesting than a poor video (but we can only guess what is reported) is the actual Navy report of this test. Maybe someone should put in a FOI request for it. http://www.infinite-energy.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&produc ts_id=85 Historically, it looks like there could have been a number of explosions of radium compounds that were more intense than chemical reactions but much of that info is not online since it goes back in time over 100 years. http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=457526 http://libserv23.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/cgi-bin/princetonperiodi cals?a=d&d=Princetonian19360418-01.2.4&e=-------en-20--1--txt-IN----- In addition to a short half life, radium is extremely chemically reactive. This could be a clue in what is going on in a radium-powered engine, as the patent describes. In CANR the idea has been around for a long time that chemical reactions can cause(catalyze) nuclear reactions, or speed up nuclear decay by many orders of magnitude. The first reliable instance of this phenomena is found in the deuterium chloride "trigger" for the first device developed at Los Alamos in the 1940s. This was the "Kistiakowsky trigger" named after Dr. K - the Head of the Explosives Division of the Manhattan Project. The chlorine must "photo-activated" to cause deuterium to release neutrons, possibly by "stripping." Can radium chloride be "triggered" like DCl when the photo-activation is arc discharge or sparks? Who knows, but if so - Radium is three million times as radioactive as the same mass of uranium. Plus its decay product - radon is far more radioactive than radium. If there is such a beast as "accelerated" decay due to CANR, then this could explain most of the Papp mystery - including the desert Cannon explosion. There are reasons to suspect that Papp was able to get a radium powered engine to work, and that after the Feynman affair, he never could use radium again. Many would like to believe that a Papp engine operated without radium after the Feynman affair - but I see zero proof of that. There were tests which were seen, but like Feynman said - it is not too hard to put batteries into an oversized crankcase. There is a lingering suspicion that after the fatality - CalTech could have been using the radioactivity, discovered from the explosion - in legal maneuvers against Papp, in order to force the plaintiffs into a settlement. There are probably a few people still around LA that could stir up that ball of snakes. Jones
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