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Self-pumped vacuum capacitor effect
An attempt to reclaim a lost Nikola Tesla idea-sequence!
The air pressure within a tiny metal-walled chamber full of glowing plasma slowly falls. Air turns to solid oxides/nitrides, leaving vacuu...
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Implementation of the BiefeldBrown effect for ink sucking action.
Google videos has the following vid on the subject:
Dr. Tom Valone Interview: The Biefeld-Brown Effect
Wasn't expecting it to work, seemed like one of Tesla's more silly ideas. But that was awesome. I especially like your nifty little hand held Tesla coil. Favourited.
I mean you don't cool it down, right?
It's not the current that does it, it's the high-voltage plasma. Plasma is chemically reactive.
All the oxygen in the air gets slowly converted into oxidized aluminum, a white solid powder. The nitrogen in the air gets converted into aluminum nitride, also a solid. The remaining few percent of Argon might be left behind. Or maybe the high voltage will charge up the argon atoms (create ions,) then impact them with the aluminum so they burrow inside it.
Yep. They produce "static" sparks, can be painful, but no visible blisters. Just steer clear of using the narrow glass urethral probe from Violet Ray quack medical kits. Ouch.
On eBay, the really old antique ones with flaky wiring might burst into flame and trip circuit breakers. You have to disassemble those and repair/test. New ones cost $180 or so, check out the vid text caption to the right, under the yellow "subscribe" button. Click on (more info)
It shows how Tesla could make x-rays in 1892, years before other physicists could reach that hard vacuum.
> COIL ....homemade?
Nope, that's a "vacuum tester" Tesla coil, costs around $180 new, see the vid text caption. I got mine on eBay for $30. Some of those are very old and not reliable (like from pre-1920s.) Old ones are smooth, or have large flat facets. Buy the later-model ones with the close parallel ridges on half the bakelite handle, called "BD-10" type.
Tesla's "death ray" was published in the 1980s. Plans depict a giant VandeGraaff machine with a belt of charged air, (pumped by a Tesla turbine of course.) The sphere was covered with glass/vacuum insulated bumps.
Inside the sphere was a many MeV particle accelerator in vacuum which launched mercury atomic clusters (nano-droplets) through the center of a multi-stage aspirator pump. In 1930s NT claimed building a successful prototype. I've not heard of anyone trying this.