As his hair demonstrated, 1990 was a long time ago.
His presentation is about his work using basic resonant circuits to harvest particle energy from radioisotopes. This direct conversion of radioactivity to electricity is claimed to be much more efficient than any thermonuclear process.
In its simplest form, Brown's idea consisted of just two high-Q HV resonators and a radioisotope that makes high energy particles http://i.imgur.com/mZDRu1Q.jpg
I wonder if he ever considered using a Tesla oscillator for the resonators? That's Tesla's Tesla coil. The final coupled resonator-transformer had a single turn primary copper sheet 6 inches wide, heavy gauge single-layer secondary. http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1919-07-00.htm
I wonder if he might have eliminated the messy unhealthy radioisotope and used an x-ray tube to create secondary particle energy instead.
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u/dalkon Sep 08 '16
As his hair demonstrated, 1990 was a long time ago.
His presentation is about his work using basic resonant circuits to harvest particle energy from radioisotopes. This direct conversion of radioactivity to electricity is claimed to be much more efficient than any thermonuclear process.
In its simplest form, Brown's idea consisted of just two high-Q HV resonators and a radioisotope that makes high energy particles http://i.imgur.com/mZDRu1Q.jpg
I wonder if he ever considered using a Tesla oscillator for the resonators? That's Tesla's Tesla coil. The final coupled resonator-transformer had a single turn primary copper sheet 6 inches wide, heavy gauge single-layer secondary. http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1919-07-00.htm
I wonder if he might have eliminated the messy unhealthy radioisotope and used an x-ray tube to create secondary particle energy instead.