Famulus fusion

[Tom Ligon]

The nature of a Polywell is that it will lose at least some ions, particularly any created outside the magrid. I've always thought that you might get by with a single modest hot cathode, possibly a headlight filament or a cathode taken from a vacuum tube, to just pilot the electron population. Thereafter, lost ions bombarding a surface willing to give up electrons easily (diamond film or just graphite seem likely) might provide additional electron sources. Other materials are probably available as well. So you might put one hot emitter on a face or corner, and cold cathodes coated with one of the materials above on the rest.

[ladajo]

Looks like Famulus is about to discover a "new to him" phenomena, "Bi-Metallic Corrosion" and Bi-metallic Junction potential generation as well as Bi-metallic stress cracking.

Should be fun to see how it turns out for him.

http://prometheusfusionperfection.com/2 ... ed-bronze/

[icarus]

Looks like Famulus is about to discover a "new to him" phenomena, "Bi-Metallic Corrosion" and Bi-metallic Junction potential generation as well as Bi-metallic stress cracking.

Should be fun to see how it turns out for him.

Or you could post to his web page your opinions in the hope of helping him?

[ladajo]

He reads here as well. But either way, the issues I talk about he may not experience, it depends on lifetime and extremity of use.
Bi-metallic joints are a fun little world.

[MSimon]

He reads here as well. But either way, the issues I talk about he may not experience, it depends on lifetime and extremity of use.
Bi-metallic joints are a fun little world.

http://www.edn.com/article/518252-The_Ex_scope_ist.php

[ladajo]