Your dad an electrical engineer at E systems, eh? Great, get him to read
the Chernetskii paper on electrical arcs in vacuum and how more energy is
output than it takes to produce it....take him to the energy section and
just read files; http://keelynet.com/energy.htm
Specifically, Chernetskii - on spark gaps in vacuum
Frolov - Avramenko plug and resonant loads
Pearson - 18% power gain when annihilation occurs
and others...seeya!
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