Plasma Multipactor by Gene Meeks: Self-Sustaining Power Device?

[p75213]

I have been reading a patent by Gene Meeks of a plasma multipactor. Meeks was the right hand man of Philo Farnsworth the "father of television" and worked with him on the 'fusor' - a small nuclear fusion device. Meeks's multipactor appears to be a self sustaining over unity power device utilising electron emission and an easily ionised gas under high pressure.

Can anybody more qualified give an opinion?

http://www.google.com/patents/US3621454#classifications

 

[CWatters]

Not really my field but as I understand it multipactors are used to protect radar receivers from overload. It's only the electron emission that's over unity a bit like a photo multiplier I suppose. It's not some sort of over-unity power device, on the contrary it's designed to waste power and stop it damaging the receiver.

See..
http://www.cpii.com/docs/related/4/Multipactor a.pdf

PS: Over unity and perpetual motion machines are banned topics so this thread might be closed. Perhaps the moderators could wait for someone more knowledgeable than me to reply first.

 

[berkeman]

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