Paul S. wrote:Langley wrote:The Bibliography is Out There sir. Its very interesting.
http://www.nrl.navy.mil/NewsRoom/images/horizon.pdf
an interesting history which leaves a lot out.
Hey Langley, thanks for that link. Very interesting. Still more to absorb.Cant find anything about the story of the origins of the Gunn Diode. Ross Gunn was into very similar things to TT Brown. Yet Gunn goes nuke. That darn recurring theme.
Well, recall my experience with the NRL. Here I had all these documents IN MY HAND and SENT THEM TO THE NRL archives to document my appeal of their categorical rejection of my FOIA request. And STILL they said "we've never heard of the guy."
Or words to that effect. What's the point of being a writer if I can't exaggerate a little...<g>
--PS
Airship can carry extremely heaving loads, so, we should assume they had considered lead shielded small nuclear plants for power, enough to generate plasma.
BTW, it was interesting to read in that Bussard obit that Twigsnapper sent us the quotes from Robert Hirsch. That fusor patent that showed up in Dr. Brown's files was actually for a version of the Farnsworth fusor I call the "Hirsch/Meeks Variation." Hirsch worked in Farnsworth's fusion lab before it was closed down in the mid-60s.
The majority of fusion processes being investigated today are very expensive, costing billions of U.S. dollars; require giant machines; and offer no predictability. Nonetheless, we know that fusion works because every star is a fusion reactor. The fusion reactors of the stars and the sun are held together by a direct force field. This works very well and efficiently -- this force field is gravity.
Gravitational forces between particles draw them directly together. Only one other force is known to be like gravity: this is the electric field force or "coulomb" force, between electrically-charged particles.
Charged particles of opposite signs attract each other with direct forces; charged particles in electric fields feel forces directly along field gradients. Thus, fusion fuel plasmas could be held together efficiently by electric forces and electric fields. This is called "Electric Fusion".
Dr. Bussard was not the first to try to create such a field. One notable technique utilized a spherical screen grid that was biased to a positive potential, thereby attracting electrons through the screen, producing a negative potential well. As the electrons passed through the screen, they slowed down as their kinetic energy was transformed into potential energy in the potential well, and ions could then be dropped into it at the edge, fall down, and be recirculated back and forth. Any particles not reacting went back into the well. The only problem with this method was that the grid was not transparent. Because of the high interception rate on the grid, essentially all of the energy put into the electron acceleration went into the grid. Energy was lost and the grid melted. This technique just didn't work.
Dr. Bussard's invention, however, removes the fore-mentioned grid and replaces it with a magnetic field. It is known that magnetic fields do not contain neutral plasmas very well (as illustrated in the case of the Tokamak). Magnetic fields, however, contain electrons very easily because electrons are extremely light.
AM wrote:
ONLY ONE OTHER FORCE IS KNOWN TO BE LIKE GRAVITY: THIS IS THE ELECTRIC FIELD...! Both Dr. Bussard as well as Philo Farnsworth were very aware of this. Now wonder that Farnsworth's material was found in Dr. Brown's papers! Just try to keep in mind that as Ms. Brown has reminded me Dr. Brown's work is a departure from Coulomb's law.
THE IMPLICATIONS OF A CONNECTION BETWEEN DR. BROWN's WORK AND FARNSWORTH-BUSSARD THOUGHTS ARE MULTIPLE!
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FM No Static At All wrote:Here is a little paper on anti-gravity:
http://www.aspden.org/books/Asp/1991a.pdf
http://www.aspden.org/books/Asp/1989b.pdf
and check out the drawing on page 42 in this document:
http://www.aspden.org/books/Asp/1995e.pdf
Fred
Langley wrote:FM No Static At All wrote:Here is a little paper on anti-gravity:
http://www.aspden.org/books/Asp/1991a.pdf
http://www.aspden.org/books/Asp/1989b.pdf
and check out the drawing on page 42 in this document:
http://www.aspden.org/books/Asp/1995e.pdf
Fred
Excellent thx Fred.
electron shells is all I know of Coulomb - light emission when energised to jump or become ionised.
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