"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:15:10 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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Let GM die - fertilizer for smaller, leaner and better companies to
suceed.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.



Did I ever tell you about my hollow cathode plasma energy generator?

(seriously)

I stumbled across this many years ago purely by serendipity, doing some
experiments in a vacuum chamber.
It converted electrical energy into heat at about 100 times (or more) the
efficiency of conventional electric or fossil fueled heat generators.

I always wanted to go back and follow up on it. For example, I think it
could be used to heat a house very economically. Sorta like a mini
nuclear
power generator without the nuclear reaction.

I'm in - when do we start? :)


You are late to the meeting. We've been discussing this all day.
My interest in this has been re-piqued. I need to revisit it.

Simply put, it has to do with efficient use of electrons and increasing the
probability of ionization.
This is done routinely for other applications, such as planar magnetron
sputtering whereby
electrons from a power supply do more work because they become captured in a
magnetic field. Under certain conditions, a sputtering target can become
almost self sustaining due to the density of ionized gas and sputtered
material molecules. That has been demonstrated many times.

The duber I experimented with was doing the same thing, I think, except I
didn't need magnets to confine the electrons to a specific area.

Eisboch