> In the 1940's, little work was done on the North-American continent on
> the presence of longitudinal forces in plasma discharges. The notable
> exceptions may have been the self-funded research of W. Reich and of
> T.H. Moray. Reich claimed to have discovered a spontaneous pulsatory
> activity of the space medium in cold cathode diodes sealed at high
> vacuum, and to have achieved oscillatory frequencies that reached 30
> Kc (4). He equally claimed to have designed a motor circuit driven by
> the cyclic discharge in question, but all the details of the circuits
> were kept secret by Reich, and have remained so since the burning and
> banning of his publications by the FDA in 1956. His suspicious death
> in prison followed shortly thereafter in 1957.
>
> 4. Reich, W (1949) "A motor force in Orgone energy: preliminary
> Anomalous cathode reaction forces varying in proportion to the square
> of the input current were first identified separately by Tanberg and
> Kobel, in 1930, during studies of cathode vaporization in "vacuum"-arc
> discharges (VADs) and stationary cathode spots (1,2). In his original
> paper, Tanberg made a case for the presence of longitudinal forces on
> electrodynamic interactions, which he attributed to the counterflow of
> vaporized cathode particles (1), but K. Compton demonstrated that the
> vapor jet only accounted for <2% of the reaction force's magnitude
> (3). He suggested a different interpretation of the the electrodynamic
> anomaly, arguing for a mechanical rebound, at the cathode, of
> charge-neutralized gas ions that hit the cathode in the course of the
> discharge (bombardment rebound) (3).
You know cathode ray tube tech has been around like forever, since it appears that that you can get more power out than in the PTB have the same problem they had in the past. Just don't irradiate your self while fooling around with this thing....see link
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5416391/claims.html