@Mike: you are right concerning the oddities in the VSG story.
There are certain things that just don't seem to make sense, like
the absence of the decay time in the graphs...
Or the fact that some did manage to replicate and get more energy out than in,
and others did not manage to produce such readings while their setup
sounded like it was built correctly...
Or the fact that mr Vallée himself apparently never developed a working
reactor, but only the theory...
But then again, similar oddities happened when they were trying to develop
heavier-than-air flight. Some managed to do it, others did not, some
of the latter were university professors in aerodynamics even...
But in the end a couple of bicycle repair men managed to get a wing
frame to lift off powered by a moped engine, while on the other side
of the US high ranking academics were still shouting that hta flight
was proven to be imposible. By the time those academics finally
admitted it did appear to be possible after all, despite all their theoretical
explanations to the contrary, a dozen of brave inventors were already
flying their homebuilt airoplanes over European cities. And crashing them
every now and then, of course.
I'm just saying, the fact that there seem to be large differences in the
level of success between the different attempts to replicate,
does not necessarily mean the theory is flawed, nor that it cannot be done.
It just means we haven't really figured out exactly how to get it to work in all
situations yet.
On the idea of a continuous gas discharge Synergetic generator;
It will require quite a large input to induce the initial gas discharge to begin with.
This input requirement may be decreased by adding another method to cause
excitation in the gas, so that the lower induction energy can more easily
"take hold" of the gas and "dislodge" the neutral gas into ion streams more easily.
A possible method to do so is the addition of UV light; most gases become
ionised to a degree by interaction with UV light. So we beam UV into the
toroidal chamber while we power the induction coils, and we may be able to
increase efficiency of the induction significantly.
Also, and some of you may have spotted this before as I had myself, but since
a friend of mine brought it up recently I though perhaps people here might like to
know about it as well;
As some of you must know and others may not, the induction of a circular electric
field and circular electron movement in a chamber, using such strong magnetic field
induction, is very similar to the classical setup of an electron accellerator tube called
a Betatron and used in the '50s, '60s and '70s. However, those were typically not filled
with gas but rather vacuum, and they used a cathode and an anode inside the tube;
the electrons emitted by the cathode would be accellerated in a circle by the strong
magnetic fields (that were pulsed to achieve this), untill at some point their energy
and speed were such that they would be sort of flung outward, where they would crash
into the anode which was usually a Tungsten electrode fixed to the toroidal chamber wall.
The high energy impact of the electrons on the Tungsten woud generate Gamma rays.
And that's typically what Betatrons were used for: the generation of nasty heavy radiation.
Lol not surprising that of the few people that I've spoken that understand what I'm talking
about, about half replied "you shouldn't do that! You'd be building a Betatron and you'll
kill yourself with the Gamma that produces!"...
... And they'd be right, if it really were a Betatron. But it's not.
I envision what is indeed very close to such a Betatron, but without the cathode and anode,
and without a vacuum but rather with a gas inside the chamber.
Recently I came up with a version that could include a small plasma chamber in which
a small amount of the gas can be turned plasma, so that this plasma could be ejected
into the main toroidal discharge chamber... But I'm still looking at that variation, I am not certain
whether that will actually add much.
I have tried to get hold of an old betatron tube because it seems hat a few relatively simple
alterations may turn that into a nice test version of this gas discharge reactor.
A problem I have run into here is that they're very hard to obtain. There aren't many around
that allow you to open, refill, and close the glass toroid for exmple, let alone ones
where it seems possible to remove the elecrodes, and if you find those, then it's damn hard to
find a coreless version, and if you even manage to find that, nobody wants to sell them because
you could use them to make Gamma rays and they don't want the public irradiating itself.
So far I have found zero.
Also, I have become intrigued by AbbaRue's discharge tubes. Although he uses Argon and is
using the Correa concept, he does seem to be getting out twice his input in certain tests...
Ok, that's not nearly the output the Vallée theory suggests for some other gases, but still,
it is an interesting concept... And perhaps also doable in a ontinuous circular discharge?