This is why every man and his dog tried to sue me.
This is the Nascent Plug, running at 2 joule.
There’s a filter over the lense of the high speed camera but a keen observer will be able to get an idea of what’s going on...
The colour that’s still getting through the tint tells a remarkable story in and of itself...magenta.
A studious type, will note where magenta lies on the UV spectrum.
There’s also zero EMF, nor are there any toxic or dangerous emissions.
No x-ray, no gamma, nothing whatsoever, just a perfectly clean plug which is doing things nobody believed were possible at that time.
Anyone with electrical knowledge will be aware that a high energy radiant plasma is essentially a mini sun, and like the sun, is round.
Note the plasma ejection, it’s shaped like a candle flame.
Show that to a physicist and watch his mind snap.
He will know that a high energy radiant plasma is as hot as the sun, and he’ll know that nothing can survive those kinds of temperatures. It’ll vaporise diamond and melt tungsten, the hardest property’s known to man.
So how does one design a spark plug that’s going to survive?
It’ll just get melted and consumed as fuel in an instant...
Truth is, I fluked it.
I knew I couldn’t use thoriated tungsten as that becomes radioactive when subjected to moderate current flows, so what did I use?
How to model the plasma away from the orb shape and into a bullet shape?
How can it eject the plasma without melting or eating the plug materials?
Pot luck is how...
You get pure tungsten but it cannot be machined, only cut.
I had a mob in USA develop me some pure tungsten rings and cylindrical rods which when assembled, resembled a surface discharge spark plug, like a Kawasaki Z900 plug, or a marine outboard plug, but that’s where the similarity ends.
The equidistant gap and deep well extending into the plug base, creates an interesting little phenomenon as the deep well acts as a fuel tank for ionised fuel.
It ionises whatever you feed it, to the atomic level, instantly, then detonates the atomic hydrogen, which blows the plasma out of the plug without it ever touching the plug components, just like that.
You couldn’t design it to do that even if you tried, you can only arse it, and I mean, totally arse it.
I had the plugs built and shipped to the project in Italy untested.
The engineers freaked and I mean freaked.
They reckoned I scammed them...for nobody operates that way in the scientific world but that’s what happened.
They asked what I expected the outcome would be the moment they fired it up and I simply stated that it was a 50/50 situation, purely, my plug design would either work brilliantly or it would vaporise, it can only be one way or the other.
It was a very tense time...
Next thing, they’ve set it up to test it and boom...it worked...and now they can’t find the words to describe what they’re seeing.
Their minds couldn’t comprehend it.
I just roared laughing because after the tension came the release and watching their reactions and facial expressions was too much for me and I lost it totally.
Without a doubt, my laughter was driven by fear, because they’d already told me that they were going to basically skin me alive then eat me, for they were certain that failure was imminent, then bingo, they hit the button and the rest is history.
Anyhow, the success of the plug ended up being the cause of the failure of that element of that project, because the custom built supercharged radial engine was air cooled, no coolant or water at all, and after running on bottled hydrogen for 7 glorious minutes, the engine was shut down and disassembled for inspection, whereupon it was discovered to be filled with water...
They couldn’t understand it and all eyes were on me to figure it out, because it ran perfectly with a standard ignition, but on plasma it somehow created water within the crank case...why?
A quick head scratch and trying to get over the thrill and the laughter of the preceding minutes and it’s full blown thinking time.
How?
Why?
Of note was the report/sound it made when it was fired in open air prior to it being installed in the engine, sounded really loud, like a bull whip cracking, or a rifle cartridge being fired.
Being a former explosives preloader and having a reasonable grasp of sound travel through my occupation as a Marine Seismic Navigator, and having had a lifelong familiarity with firearms etc, I knew that thesound/report was not only unanticipated, but was significantly powerful and remarkably fast.
We had audio as everything was being recorded, so a quick rewind and replay presented another quest, find out what was making the rifle shot sound and figure out how it was creating water out of thin air.
Using my knowledge of guns, I estimated the sound to be travelling above 1000 fps, and playing the sound back through a computer program which timed it, the result was 1.222222222 fps, energy unknown.
How to figure this out?
To cut a long story short, the answer is:
The high energy radiant plasma, fired through the Nascent Plug, ionised whatever it was fed to the atomic level and detonated the atomic hydrogen, which projected the plasma out into the combustion chambers, in turn detonating and generally vaporising the bottled hydrogen.
Due to the ionised hydrogen atoms being stripped of electrons, they’re looking for an electron so as to reassemble and because they’re so powerful, like about 7-10 times more powerful than ordinary hydrogen atoms, they steal the first electron they come across, which from memory (faded now) I think may have been the oxygen atom, something like that.
H2O, water...
How’s it getting into the crank case?
Simple, via the bore hatch and piston rings.
It cannot be compressed as it’s at the atomic level thus has no body to compress, therefore under the slightest pressure, it just makes for the nearest exit, perhaps a mere microscopic scratch and they’re gone.
They don’t get far, just far enough to grab a mate and reassemble as water...
Engineers and scientists are peculiar creatures, for they never stop searching for another approach.
Rather than backtrack by ditching my spark plug, which clearly isn’t suitable in a radial engine, they pressed forward using atomic hydrogen stored in metal hydride, on a 50cc scooter.
The metal hydride fuel cell was the size of a Red Bull can, is solid steel and is inert in every way, even when loaded with atomic hydrogen.
Pretty amazing project, the math was crazy.
The figures I saw, predicted that the 50cc mini bike could theoretically travel from Melbourne to Perth and back to Ceduna before it required a replacement fuel cell, again, Red Bull can size.
The project collapsed because the engineers lost the plot trying to remedy the water in the crank case problem.
They started a spin off project and I got dragged off into that, but to be totally honest, I wasn’t very helpful as it was far too technical for me.
They hypothesised that if they ionised nitrogen, reversing its polarity, the rampaging atomic hydrogen atom would lock onto that, which cancels the H2O business and due to the larger sized atoms, albeit reduced in stored energy yield potential, down from like 7-10 times as powerful as an ordinary hydrogen atom, is brought down to 2-3 times.
They argued that it was still viable.
That meant the mini bike would only make it from say Melbourne to about Port Augusta before requiring a refuel.
They pressed on and on, overcoming hurdle after hurdle till the investors pulled the pin, like more than 12 months later.
I bailed long before that and wasn’t able to recover my property or get paid.
It was all a waste of time and money.
That project led me to the later one, up in Qld, where an R&D company approached me to assist them in several big projects, which were all very interesting but as I said earlier, the automotive/racing/fuel economy/emissions reduction one was the easiest, so away that went, and boom, 10 days from launch, I walked out.
Can’t turn back the clock and time doesn’t stop.
I’ll never get involved with R&D projects ever again.
You can only be burned so many times before you tire of it.
That said, it was interesting and took up a fair bit of time.
I’m getting old now and am struggling health wise. I nearly died in 2017 from blood poisoning, caused by what they think was a cyst on the bone in my upper jaw, that cost me all my teeth and near did me in, but for some unknown reason I survived, though it’s been a massive struggle to recover my health.
Age catches up with all of us sooner or later and the older we get, the more our chemistry changes, defeating us this way and that till we finally check out.
I can’t believe I’m writing all this stuff for I should have been asleep several hours ago.
They started me on some new medication today, because the health took another broadside and I’m a bit uncertain how it’s going to go, but oh well, only one way to find out.
I gotta try to force myself to sleep, this new medication isn’t good.
It’s supposed to knock you out, not hype you up...