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

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The discussion centers on Gene Meeks' patent for a plasma multipactor, which is described as a self-sustaining over-unity power device utilizing electron emission and ionized gas under high pressure. However, it is clarified that multipactors are primarily used to protect radar receivers from overload, and the electron emission aspect does not equate to a true over-unity device. The conversation highlights the misconception surrounding the multipactor's function and emphasizes that it is designed to dissipate power rather than generate excess energy.

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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
 
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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.
 
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