ARLA/CLUSTER: Fusão termonuclear pode começar num AL de 1 kW em HF.

[João Gonçalves Costa]

An advert placed in the British amateur radio magazine RadCom has got a mention in the Times newspaper.

The Wanted column in the February 2009 issue of RadCom carried an advert from Christopher Strevens G4ZHT who was looking for a 1 KW HF Linear amplifier to use in thermonuclear fusion experiments.

This novel use for an HF amplifier was picked up by the Times newspaper and on 27th Jan they published a story imaginatively titled 'Nuclear reaction fear in land of the Wombles'.

Is a nuclear cloud about to envelop Wimbledon? The police have been alerted to an explosive classified advert in the magazine of the Radio Society of Great Britain, home of wireless hams.

"Christopher" is seeking a 1kW linear amplifier. "I want to use the output to see if I can initiate a thermonuclear fusion reaction," he writes. "The experiment is to put a tube of low pressure hydrogen in the inductor of a tuned circuit and excite it with 1kW of radio energy to ionise the hydrogen and see if it will start a fusion reaction. The experiment is quite dangerous and it may be difficult to stop the nuclear reactions once they start."

Giles Read, technical editor of RadCom, the magazine concerned, says: "Physicists have assured us that this experiment cannot possibly result in a fusion reaction. At best, the hydrogen will ionise, producing a pink colour - pretty but harmless."

Christopher, from Wimbledon, has been conducting experiments of this nature, without success, since 1967. But he only needs to be right once.

You can read it athttp://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/celebrity/article5593990.ece

The website of Christopher Strevens G4ZHT carries further information on his experiments http://www.chrisspages.co.uk/

Fonte: Southgate Amateur Radio Club e The Times.
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