@Alan.
Let me address your post point by point.
People never went beyond the simplest meyer design, which is gas above 1V using SS and no heating up.
What people are you referring to? Certainly not me and countless others that I know that took Myers patents as the gospel truth and have built many many systems, following the patents as closley as possible.
I think there are plenty replications shown on youtube - other went beyond by tuning and scaling up just for more lpm, but not for better efficiencies.
I think that the vast majority of "replications" on Youtube are just electrolysis cells and not Meyer replications at all. Sure they use tubes, but beyond that they can hardy be callled Meyer replications.
Can you refer me to one verifiable replication where a VIC transformer (4 coils on a common core) is used per one of Meyers Patents? Can you refer me to one verifiable replication where a VIC circuit ( 2 chokes and a blocking diode) is used and almost no current
flows though the tubes. Where only voltage potential is doing the work?
Assepom might be the first who's showing the last accomplishment of meyer: an atomic hydrogen flame.
I saw his video. Cool stuff. But is it really a Meyer replication?
don't count too much on scientist, they are very capable to translate it to real science, but many cant think beyond the indoctrine of the laws of thermodynamics, if they do it is blasphemy - if it supposedly breaks the laws, it is not worth looking at. It is the strongest weapon in their scientific crusade against people that are getting things done that may not happen. some call it scientism (http://www.ionizationx.com/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
Sure "many" scientists are rigid and cannot think beyond Maxwell and Faraday et al. I'm not too concerned with those people. They are irrelevant to what we are trying to do.
But the flip side that you failed to mention is that "many" scientists CAN and do think outside of the box and are very open to new ideas and new technology. I would not paint scientists with such a broad brush. To me, that's a cop out and only leads to an "us against them" mentality that serves no useful purpose. The "crusade" against us is probably mostly between our ears. But it does kinda give a sense of validity to what we are doing by imagining that that we are being persecuted by the big bad "Scientists" that act as the Maxwell Police .
The difference between the VIC and hairpin [pls comment]:
hairpin creates HF HV pulsing potential gradient by rapid discharging caps through a sparkgap.
the vic creates the same by very rapid changing magnetic flux.
I'm not sure where you are going with this or how it might apply in practical application. Are you suggesting using a spark gap to replace the Voltage intensifier Circuit? Or are you just using the hairpin as a way of explaining (differently from Meyer) how the VIC circuit works.
I'm very open to to the use of spark gaps to create HV in the process of releasing hydrogen from water. But as far as I am concerned that takes Meyer out of the picture. Certainly could not be called a Meyer replication ... could it ?
