FAQ - Mark Rowley video of how to prove you are doing fusion

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FAQ - Mark Rowley video of how to prove you are doing fusion

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This is a 2019 video that shows how easy it is to prove fusion is taking place using only electronic methods. With a moderator placed near a working fusor and a removable BF3 or 3HE detector (slow neutron detectors), you can dip the slow neutron detector into the moderator and counts will be heard or seen. Remove the tube from the moderator and it will not be able to count the fast neutrons going into it. Only upon reinsertion to the moderator where the fast neutrons entering the moderator are slowed to thermal velocities will the tube detect neutrons from your fusor....But, only if it is doing fusion!

Like all of Marks videos you see all the instrumentation and he concentrates on inserting and removing the fast neutron detector tube in and out of the moderator with the clicks occurring only upon insertion and going away of removal of the tube. Watch and learn....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFOrEsPDrZw

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Progress may have been a good thing once, but it just went on too long. - Yogi Berra
Fusion is the energy of the future....and it always will be
The more complex the idea put forward by the poor amateur, the more likely it will never see embodiment
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Re: FAQ - Mark Rowley video of how to prove you are doing fusion

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For those using Russian tubes, it is critical to set them up for neutron detection with good electronics. Mark has obviously done this well. If you are still getting a good number of counts outside the moderator, you have not discriminated the preamp/amp output properly as you are still detecting x-rays.

This is no slam at Russian tubes as many of them, in the right hands, are brought to good result by people who are careful and have read up on their use and techniques to make them work properly in old posts. Such posts have been placed in this forum over the years. Note you tube number and see if you can find and example of its use in an older post.

Among the most difficult to bring to good result are Russian corona neutron tubes.

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Progress may have been a good thing once, but it just went on too long. - Yogi Berra
Fusion is the energy of the future....and it always will be
The more complex the idea put forward by the poor amateur, the more likely it will never see embodiment
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