Interesting picture
This show that to take from second level to third it only need some red led
In multi photon ionization would mean a photon with even lower energy would be needed from third level and so on
Of course this are quantized values and so would need to be in correct proportion
Should be energetically efficient as just using uv to directly jump the levels
Except that electric fields can interact with that
Hey Steve,
Thanks for the response.. Were you also using the extraction circuit with the LED setup to grab those electrons (see figure 8A)?
When electricity flows down a wire it's simply knocking copper/aluminum electrons off as it flows. So essentially he is capturing them from the gas in a similar manner.
It's my understanding is, the light hits them and they move to outer shells... But,
once that light is gone (gas moves to another chamber or to engine even, without that light)
then electrons will move right back down instantly to the inner shells (doing so they will emit that light back out though)..
So I do not think it is simply enough to hit them with the light... I think the purpose of the light is to prime them.
So that within this excited state, that electron can be plucked off (
ENERGIZED LIGHT BULB (CONSUMING ELECTRONS) in fig 8A). Ideally, in the same chamber or directly above like Stans diagrams shows(again, there must have been enough light to reach upwards to the Electron Extraction grid Fig. 8A)) the extraction circuit (see attached) which removes those electrons permeantly so they can not move back down (because they are gone of course). This will ultimately leave the oxygen atoms with missing electrons which is what we want to later cause the atomic decay.
You'll notice in the picture for the gas processor (IMG_8907.jpg) is has 4 power connections at the bottom. 1 positive and 1 negative SET to power the leds and the other to power the plates through excitation. I believe these plates act similar to the water cell but are necessary so the gas doesn't just reform back into water.
If you have ever tired running a standard hydrogen cell in your car (waste of money by the way unless you're using a circuit like Stanley did) you'll see water droplets all along the tubes going to your intake. This is the atoms bumping each other to reform into water. But in a state of excitation and missing electrons, this won't happen.
I think he later realized running the gas through quench tubes and all of that was simply more dangerous and complex.. His later injector invention (not the first injectors that quench tubes simply injected the mixed gasses into the engine but the later ones) made all of this happen at an instant, eliminating the need for all of that gas travel.
I'm not positive if he even used the leds light in the later injector (he still did to ionize the ambient air with laser though) because I didn't see it in the diagrams of the injector (correct me if I'm wrong). There's only three chambers (looks like 2 in some diagrams of the injectors but it's clarified in the text and shown in FIGURE 6) in the injector and a connection for the electric from the VIC.. One chamber is just water, one is exashaut gases (non-combustible gases) and the other is the ionized ambient air to slow the burn rate.
In the circuit for the later injectors you can see he is indeed extracting electrons from within the injector because there is a light bulb/resistor in the circuit (
55 on FIGURE 5 of tempStanInjectorCircut.jpg) . So the injector was creating that unstable atomic decay effect.
