It is my intention to demonstrate that an energy potential similar to that of fusion might be produced utilizing controlled, chained sonoluminescence, vibrating, contained and focussed harmonically within a hollow music string. Within these pages I describe the machine that I have designed to achieve this: -

- a machine to harness sonoluminescence?: -

They say that it's a good idea, when presenting a project for examination, to show one's working open to scrutiny. For that reason I am here showing the route I took to arrive at my hypothesis on chained sonoluminescence...

Back in 1967, I got interested in alternative power sources, both real and imagined. Like most crazies, I had begun with flywheels and associated dead-end technologies but my thoughts eventually turned to plasma control. Having been an avid reader of scientific journals for some years previous at that point, I had become convinced (as is surely the truth) that rockets were never going to get us bodily anywhere except maybe the local solar system.

To begin with, I should maybe explain that for most of my working life I was very closely involved with music strings, having been an electric guitar specialist technician, servicing the rock music industry.

So, when it came to trying to define the most efficient format around which to design a containment vessel for energy generation / stimulation, my natural choice was to investigate the use of music string - a format surely unsurpassable for the simple efficiency of its design and its inherent potential for the controlled feedback of vibrational harmonics.

Now, this string would have to be hollow, I reckoned - and built from materials with very good heat-dissipating properties. Carbon fibres (carbon fibers in U.S.) quickly sprang to mind; in a bunch, they would form capillaries: -

Why "Sparkspin"? (Diary document 1984)

"From my very meagre knowledge of Particle Physics and the on-going quest for cheap energy derived from torus-like plasma containment devices like the Tokomak, I knew that because of the elastic & springy nature of the plasma, scientists find it very difficult to maintain its central position within the vacuum chamber. It has occurred to me that, rather as the rifling of a gun barrel induces stability to the projectile by making it spin, if the "spark" (plasma) could be made to spin then the same kind of stability might be achieved.

This would be too difficult in a torus but how about inside a music string?"

The more I examined the task on paper, the more it became apparent that there was an optimum design for a jig that would afford both support and control for such a string...

- and the design ended up looking very much like an "Ankh"...

See this page for assembly of parts.

This page is frequently updated - meanwhile: -