David, I think a great start with you ,your professor and that lil lab demo would be to ask proffesor if it could be possible to prevent the energy emmission via magnetic,electromagnetic,catalisis... any imaginable way..... next quest I think would be rearranging the available energy via any way imaginable to form A gas... any stable combustable gas. for some reason i still want to think carbon atoms or nitrogen atoms will need to play some role in the thing but dam i would love to have a proffesor available and a lab an all that stuff .Molecules,energy,ions,and atoms... whoo hoooo

still pondering about this thing and questions to ask..... why does it take vaccum to make it work? will it work at all with out vaccum?