I've been thinking about this Herman Anderson character. His Water Fuel Car is still in the museum. Minus a couple of control cards, of course. (See the claims in Tesla's Wheatstone Bridge patent, and read between the lines). The thing which distinguishes Anderson is that he was an 'insider' and was fully allowed to do his thing.
So he was using X-rays to dissociate water - radiolysis. BUT, in the process, he was getting deuterium in the exhaust. And this wasn't an accident, either. Known as "The King of Ions", due to his long term work at Los Alamos Lab, he was well aware that burning deuterium in his engine releases more energy than burning hydrogen.
Anderson was also well aware of the electron impact spectrum, perhaps in it's entireity. So when he said he was getting X-rays with 70 kV sparks from needle points, I'm sure he was. I've seen at least one patent where water vapor particles throw off X-rays. And I'm also confident that water vapor can sometimes act differently than water mist.
So what Herman had was concentric magnets, around a foot in diameter. (Unlike the Bedini Wheel, minimum diameter isn't critical). The inner slug magnet is still radially polarized, as is the outer square wall toroid. Something like plexiglass sheets on both sides kept the gas on the inside, around the needles pointing away from the two inner magnetic surfaces.
Since Herman Anderson was getting fusion products, his approach correlates, at least in my mind, with some of my Plasmoid experiments. His voltage was so high because he knew what ion he wanted for his fuel gas.
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