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- From: logajan@SLEEPY.NETWORK.COM (John Logajan)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Ionization conductivity -- Not!
- Message-ID: <9207250455.AA07760@sleepy.network.com>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 04:55:21 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Lines: 27
-
- I wrote:
- >Let's assume we have short lived conductive "trails" formed in the
- >D2O by the passing of the ionizing radioactive particles. We'd get
- >very short "current" bursts through the liquid.
-
- Apparently not. I tried this at home. I took two thin sheets of aluminum
- about 2 inches long by 3/4 wide, held them apart about 1mm (by double
- sided sticky foam tape at top and bottom with about a one inch open gap)
- and immersed them in distilled water.
-
- Then I applied 40 volts DC. After a bit, the resistance of the cell settled
- out to be about 56,000 ohms. I inserted a 10,000 ohm resistor in series
- and got approx a 6 volt drop across it. (Which is how I determined the cell
- resistance.)
-
- Then I would alternately place my Coleman lantern mantles near the pill
- bottle holding the aluminum plates. (These thorium mantles only produce
- about 1000 counts per minute, about 1mRem on the dial.)
-
- Across the 10K resistor I hooked a 100Mhz o-scope. The only thing I saw
- was slight low frequency drifting, probably due to bubbles. There was
- nothing different between the case with radiation and without. With the
- room lights turned down, I could see single triggers. If this mechanism
- was going to account for a half a watt of power, I *would* have seen something.
- Even occasional single events. But nothing.
-
- -- John Logajan
-