[NewCandle] Constrained hydrolysis

[Keith Nagel]

Jone writes:
>The bottom line is that it was basically just a wild idea, tossed out 
>like a moving target for you enjoyment in shooting down... <g>

Well it's a stimulus to thought. One of the problems Robert
had was making a small torch. The unit he was working with
was 40KW, and they were trying to get it down to 10KW.
I'm intrigued by the notion of a "micro" atomic hydrogen
torch, something on the scale of your hypodermic needle.
That would make a great tool for experimentation.

What I'm sort of imagining is a spark gap rather than
an arc gap, with a charge line driving it. Now you
could get powerful discharge currents with a realistic power supply.
The output would be pulsed, with the rep rate determined
by the relaxation time of the gap and the charging current.
However, now the magnet would be used for splitting,
rather than spin polarizing, getting away from your idea. 

Laptop atomic H. How about it?

K.