Piantelli needs to produce a plasma and he is using energetic particles to do that. This radioactive material will be bad for home use of his reactor. Papp used the same method to increase electron numbers in the Papp engine. Or he could just be covering this base to stop the competition from using this method of plasma production.
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:55 AM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > I wrote: > > All of the metals above appear to have low work functions. What is meant >> by "electron-donor" in this context appears to be that they're hot >> cathodes. ... >> > > Also note that some of the metals in the list are radioactive, so they or > their daughters will give off alphas or betas or fission into prompt > particles. The alphas and prompt particles will cause all kinds of > excitation in the electronic structure. > > Eric > >
