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Henk's avatar

I want to make a short comment, I am in de Colorado US and do not have my notes. I have the strong feeling I have been creating gas, why? I created the specific experiment and it stopped all the time. Stopping means almost always too much gas in the reactor. With too much gas the blue glowing cathode disappears and 'it's over'. Pumping is the only way to get it started again. That is what I did. When I shut down the plasma the pressure war relatively stable, no leaking of the tank. When I switched it on, I had to pump again. So then I realized I had something interesting / impossible going on. The plasma did not do this before. The only difference was the big brass anode. I bought a new pump, a diaphragm pump, that is not a strong pump but it does not contaminate the gas from the tank. There was a bonus also, because the pump is not strong I could leave the pump running 24hrs and more and so also the plasma....I had a stable process going on! Then I could start 'collecting' the gas. A thin hose on the output of the pump, in a water container, gave one bubble of gas every 5 minutes or so. These bubbles went into the glass bottles you can see in the video, I filled the bottles with water and the gas pushed away the water. I did the lid on the bottle in the water so no air could have come into the bottle's. Now it becomes interesting. The bottles have approximately the same gas mixture. I did not add any gas during this experiment, I had to pump all the time.....I use this tank already a long time, so degassing is not realistic anymore. So let's do some calculations. The pressure is about 5mbar in the tank, so bringing it into atmospheric pressure the gas in compressed 200x. I have produced much more gas then in these 3 bottles, before I realized this 'anomaly' I have been producing at least another three bottles. I don't know the exact content, be let's assume it is 100ml per bottle. then I produced 100 x 6= 600ml of atmospheric gas. So 0.6 liter x 200x expansion = 120 liters of 'vacuum gas'. The content of the tank is approx. 30 liters, that means the tank, the plasma has produced at least 4x the whole content of the tank, so the production 'diluted' the original gas mixture. It seems the tank was producing the gas as is in these three bottles.

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Bob Greenyer's avatar

You noted, you added no gas, I have argued for a long time that not only C and O is produced from heavier elements, but also H, we saw a lot of H an CO2

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