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Yeah, it is hot fusion, and it doesn't make a heck of a lot of fusion events. But I wonder if you accelerated H ions instead of deuterium, and you used a lead target, could you get some decent spallation neutrons from such a setup?

On the other hand I have observed large curling effects when messing around with plasma ball toys, the plasma definitely looks unstable in that case. But isn't that an AC discharge vs DC?

The big discussion way back when was instability, apparently the filaments twisted around and slammed into the container walls. I find that interesting, isn't lightning pretty stable? It seems to branch into areas of lesser resistance but I don't see it doing curly q's in the air too often...

The wiki says that the current theory about TGFs is that the lightning accelerates electrons into the upper atmosphere at relativistic speeds. When these relativistic electrons collide with heavy nuclei they spall off neutrons and other heavy particles. They didn't make the connection but this is th...

Take a pair of electrodes separated by the desired distance in a deuterium envelope and apply a few million volts to get a discharge?

OH LOOK! TOYS!

https://github.com/nasa/NASA-3D-Resourc ... D%20Models

https://software.nasa.gov

https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/0 ... e-for-free

Though you have to ask for it, I didn't say pretty please.. will I regret it?

Over the last few weeks, I've been trying to figure out TGFs (terrestrial gamma ray flashes) which seem to be explicitly linked to thunderstorms and lightning. Several news articles have reported saying that positrons, neutrons, and gamma rays have been detected during lightning strikes. Every one o...

Actually the idea I got now is probably going to cause me trouble too

Ever heard of this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_water_dropper

There are several videos on it on youtube. I made one also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6cgD3HTpWw

No new ideas under the sun lol

Nuclear batteries don't do very well for a number of reasons one of them I'm told is that high energy nuclear particles tend to destroy crystal lattices. Would there be any benefit to using a liquid semiconductor junction since there are no lattices to destroy? Just thinking about liquid batteries w...

Thanks Hanelyp

I think that is satisfactory. However isn't the distance between galaxys mostly a pretty good vacuum?

Ah here is an article about the neutrons in lightning phenomena

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/03/ ... comments=1

Electrostatic fields were pretty well investigated by the vacuum tube folks, and exploited commercially. Now most people find that technology passé. They were the basis for particle accelerators ranging from Time of Flight Mass Spectrometers to the first Atom Smashers. But I guess when they started...

Thanks for the stories Tom! Here is another weird thing. Scientists assume that there is this giant imbalance of matter to antimatter in the universe. How do they really know that? Doesn't antimatter behave exactly like matter in terms of spectra? How do we know there aren't anti-matter galaxies? An...