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- From: logajan@SLEEPY.NETWORK.COM (John Logajan)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: TD's Y
- Message-ID: <9207230447.AA07225@sleepy.network.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 04:47:46 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Tom Droege writes:
- >the source can be turned on and off. For
- >the time being, you must trust me that I have found a way to do this that
- >does not disturb the calorimeter balance.
-
- My guess? You inserted a bit of radioactive material (Co 60?) on the end of
- a length of stiff wire. You either push or pull this away from the Pd, or
- you have a hunk of tinfoil or other shield on one side of the bit of "hot"
- stuff, and you rotate it toward or away from the Pd. The rotation method
- would introduce the least amount of outside heat interference. The push
- pull method could transport heat in or out of the cell -- but of course,
- only minute quantities, depending upon the thermal storage capacity of
- the exposed wire segment.
-
- >The geometry is such, that when on, it provides an estimated one ten
- >thousandth of the flux used by Ying.
-
- Ah, your existing design won't let you get close enough.
-
- >I remind you all that god has a gamma ray source and he (used she
- >last time) capriciously turns it on and off.
-
- What? You signed a non-disclosure agreement with god too? :-)
-
- All I can think of is cosmic rays, or their by-products. My Heathkit
- geiger counter only counts about 8-15 counts per minute of natural
- background radiation (source unknown.) Don't know what you guys get their
- in Batavia, but I imagine it can't be too much more intense. You guys
- don't glow in the dark, do you? :-)
-
- -- John Logajan
-