Re: The Aluminium Battery
Michael Huffman wrote: > Moin Chris, > > Mea culpa. Too much coffee, and too many s's. Try this URL > > http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/suslick/britannica.html > > Knuke This is kind of weird. I haven't checked Suslick's site in about 2 1/2 years. I just went to have a look at site, and nearly everything regarding his nickel work is gone. I scoured the entire thing only to find the barest of mention of his nickel work. I remember when I first found his website, his biggest discovery at the time was amorphous iron powder, which had applications in the recording industry, and the transformer industry. I exchanged some e-mails with him, told him about Mill's work with nickel, and suggested that he try cavitating that. I checked his website about 18 months later, and roughly on quarter of his site was devoted to a nickel powder that he had created which he was claiming could store 10,000 times the energy in a battery than a normal NiMH battery. He had a patent for a nickel process, and there was a link on the site to his private company which was shopping his technologies around. He has done so much work since then that it drowns out his early stuff, but I also did a Google, and I went 22 pages deep without seeing any reference to either his nickel work or his company. He is an old friend of an old friend of mine, so I might have to make some inquiries. If you want to write him directly, he used to answer his e-mails immediately. He seems to be pretty busy these days, though. Knuke
Re: The Aluminium Battery
Moin Chris, Mea culpa. Too much coffee, and too many s's. Try this URL http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/suslick/britannica.html Knuke Zell, Chris wrote: > I googled "Ken Susslick" but nothing came up. I did wonder about the > idea of getting an extremely fine powder squashed against a conductive > wall > by spinning a tank of the stuff. > > -----Original Message- > From: Michael Huffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 4:09 AM > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Subject: Re: The Aluminium Battery > > Zell, Chris wrote: > >>Holy crap - and I thought 40% efficiency from the zinc air battery was > > >>lousy. >> >>Can a battery be made outta stuff that's highly reactive? Like >>aluminum and bromine? >> >>I guess that's the limiting factor with chemical batteries - heat. I >>wonder if there's any way to reduce the heat output while pushing more > > >>electrons? > > > Moin Chris, > > Check out Ken Susslick's work with NiMH at the U of Chicago. He was > making some pretty outrageous claims for his micropowders. Last I > looked, he had not yet made any deals with a manufacturer, but that may > have changed. It looks like some of the manufacturers are beginning to > come up with solutions to the electrode problems. That may have been > what was hindering the progress with Susslick, I don't know. > > Knuke > > Knuke > >
Re: Shoulders, Puthoff & Sarfatti re ZPE
Wesley Bruce wrote: > The military are favoring smaller and smaller bomb now that we have GPS > accuracy. Big EVO bombs are unlikely. By the way wont it tend to work > like lightening in a bottle? Zzzot instead of Boom. More like a > Traveller plasma bazooka than a nuke. Shoulders envisions a day when his EVOs can be collected and bottled. If that were possible, the math suggests that the stored energy would be large enough to actually cause an explosion, much like an over-charged lithium-ion battery or an over-charged capacitor. I don't have any problem with that idea. To date however, he has not been able to collect or bottle his EVOs, and the ones that he has produced were relatively small, at least that was the state of his research the last time I looked at it. EVOs are similar, if not identical, to ball lightning, and Ken was producing these by making an arc with a pointed electrode. This limited the size of the EVO that was coming off of the tip. Others have observed plasma events in cells that electrodes with sharp corners or tears in them. This indicates that the electrode geometry is responsible for the formation of the EVO. It also poses a limitation on how big they can get. If the EVOs cannot be collected and contained, which I think is the case, then their energy release upon coming into contact with something else would be limited to the energy contained in each charge cluster, and the energy would behave much like it would for ball lightning. This is my speculation of course, and I haven't looked at his work for a while. He may have developed a way to contain many EVOs in a small space - I don't know, but I doubt it. I do find his work quite interesting, and I think there is a lot to be learned here, but I don't see it challenging the current paradigm in any way. Knuke
Re: Shoulders, Puthoff & Sarfatti re ZPE
Mark Goldes wrote: > Vo, > > More to ponder. Disturbing. > > http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=11751_0_5_0_C Considering the background of all of the participants in this debate, I would pidgeonhole this one as something similar to the weapons development disinformation that was propagated during the Reagan administration. Sarfatti is a headgamer/prankster of no small fame who, as far as I know, has never contributed anything of any value to the work of cosmology, other than stimulating debate. Debate is obviously necessary this field, as the blind acceptance of what Puthoff, Feinmann, or any other cosmologist might proffer would stagnate independant thought and progress. If Sarfatti can demonstrate his theory in the real world, then he deserves a great deal of praise. If not, then I would not be too bothered with what he is saying. As for developing an EVO weapon, you have to remember, that it took the military over 60 years to come up with a usable microwave weapon, which by comparison, is fairly primitive. I think it is premature to the point of being a waste of time to be worrying about a terrorist boarding an airplane carrying EVO bombs. Knuke
Re: The Aluminium Battery
Zell, Chris wrote: Holy crap - and I thought 40% efficiency from the zinc air battery was lousy. Can a battery be made outta stuff that's highly reactive? Like aluminum and bromine? I guess that's the limiting factor with chemical batteries - heat. I wonder if there's any way to reduce the heat output while pushing more electrons? Moin Chris, Check out Ken Susslick's work with NiMH at the U of Chicago. He was making some pretty outrageous claims for his micropowders. Last I looked, he had not yet made any deals with a manufacturer, but that may have changed. It looks like some of the manufacturers are beginning to come up with solutions to the electrode problems. That may have been what was hindering the progress with Susslick, I don't know. Knuke Knuke
Re: Acoustic Antigravity
Terry Blanton wrote: Here's another reference: http://www.crystalinks.com/levitationtibet.html The Bernoulli Principle applied to gravity/ZPE? Knuke
Re: Beta-Aether as Quantum Tunnelling
Moin Frank, Considering that a magnetron is cavitating electrons to produce radio waves, and that destruction of steel due to stress is also a cavitation phenomena according to your theory, could it also be that cavitation is occurring in the layers of silicon wafers in transistors? One layer cavitates electrons the way a magnetron does, another receives the microwaves, and converts it back into electrons. Considering the dopants most commonly used, it seems like a possibility. Have you thought about this? Knuke
Re: [OT] Chemtrails Legalized?
Terry Blanton wrote: Senate Bill S 517 certain seems to do so: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:s517is.txt or http://tinyurl.com/7puwc and an editorial: http://www.willthomas.net/Convergence/Weekly/Chemtrails.htm Moin Terry, There was a guy on the FreeNRG group that was telling us that this was happening some years ago. He was a foreign guy that was living in Montana, I think. He was saying that the chemicals where making a lot of people and cattle sick. Some of the group speculated at the time that this might be some kind of secret immunization plan by our government to protect us against some kind of bio-attack. The combination of this guy's bad English, and the total unbelievability of the story made me think that he was just a wacko. By the way, you posted a link to a story in the Berkeley Wellness Newsletter about a nutritional supplement that you were taking. I noticed that Dr. Lester Packer was mentioned. He is a family friend of a very good friend of mine, who is now also living here in Germany. She and Dr. Packer's son, David, aka Lesser Packer, grew up together in the Bay area. Both Packers did time at Lawrence Livermore, as well. This woman is suffering from Multiple Sclerosis, and became a walking encyclopedia on nutritional supplements after nearly dying in a UC Davis study. There were 30 original participants in the study, and 6 died before they finally brought it to a halt. She hasn't been to a regular doctor since, and although she has had her bad moments, she is currently enjoying remarkably good health. I don't know how she is going to react to the news that Germany is doing something as stupid as this spraying of barium/aluminium compounds. We both came over here to get away from stuff like that. Are you aware of how widespread this practice has become? Like, how many countries are doing this, and which ones are they? I read some years ago a company prospectus that was suggesting doing this to track weather patterns, but it was a Russian company, and I just figured that the West would never be so insane as to even consider this sort of thing. As Gomer Pile used to say, "Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!". Knuke
Re: Beta-atmosphere and the Cavity Magnetron
Grimer wrote: The ideas are certainly not in danger of straining *your* brain. Jones and Horace seemed to manage OK. Yeah Ok, I usually strain my noodle about a minute after it comes to a boil, then I recall the exhortations of my parents to use it, and I reluctantly attempt to do so. I think that even though we are both quite fluent in English, we are talking two different languages, but that is OK. I never understood what my parents were telling me either. My background in vacuum technologies comes from my work on large refrigeration systems and desalinization gear. The gauges go down to zero (1 atm), and then start reading in Inches of Mercury. As far as I know, no one has ever achieved a perfect vacuum, nor has anyone managed to suck beyond that point (although Halliburton and the legal department of Microsoft are competing intensely for that honor). I have had some training and practical experience in structural engineering, but not that much. I have done very little work with concrete, but I have done more than a bit with steel. I will root around for your papers, try and shift into your language set, and see if they make any sense to me. Hopefully, visualizing concepts that I have always applied to gas technologies to solid material will not require the use of psychedelics. Knuke PS Jones and Horace are geniuses. So are Fred and Bill. I have to stop several times and start over when counting my toes. Ask anybody.
Re: Beta-atmosphere and the Cavity Magnetron
Grimer wrote: You could have added Casimir pressure for good measure. 8-) My preferred term is Beta-atmosphere since I find the analogy with atmospheric pressure useful - and it arises naturally if one starts one's analysis with sands and clays which are held together by Alpha-atmospheric pressure in the case of coarse sands (pF < 15 psi) and Beta-atmospheric pressure in the case of clays, say. (pF > 15 psi). Moin Frank, So, you are basically changing the baseline for pressure to 15psi, but you do still agree with the majority of the scientific community, that all pressure is positive with relation to no pressure, and that there is no such thing as negative pressure with relation to no pressure. Knuke
Re: The Secret of Sonoluminescence
Grimer wrote: If the above is correct then presumably the spectrum of the sonoluminescence will be different for different noble gases. Is it, and if so, in what way? - and do you know of a URL which might give this information? Frank Grimer Moin Frank, You make a good point, the spectrum should be different. I don't remember off the top of my head if this was ever measured or not, to tell you the truth, but it would seem logical that any well equiped researcher would do that. It is cheap and easy enough to do. All of the early stuff that I have read states that the light is in the UV range, but that was only for normal water. Schaeffer, as far back as the early 70's, and Griggs in the early 90's both reported blue steam coming out of their devices, and I asked at the time if they had turned out the lights to see if the steam was actually emitting light, but I never got an answer. At the time, I was trying to establish the fact that the hydrogen/oxygen bonds were being broken, and that the steam contained radicals that were burning when exposed to the oxygen outside the machine. That much and more has been pretty well established since then. As for URLs, my collection was destroyed when I moved to Europe. I had two copies of my website which contained nearly all of the URLs, and went to great lengths to ensure that they would be safely treated during my escape from the US. The story of how they were destroyed is so unbelievable, I don't even want to think about it. I haven't had the time since then to do the work again. So it goes. I do remember sending copies of the website to a couple of people from this group. Maybe somebody still has a copy, and can send it to you. Knuke
Re: The Secret of Sonoluminescence
Grimer wrote: Well, "For unknown reasons, the addition of a small amount of noble gas (such as helium, argon, or xenon) to the gas in the bubble increases the intensity of the emitted light dramatically." Since the reasons are unknown one might justifiably infer that the researchers who discovered this effect "...were amazed to find that" the intensity of the emitted light increased dramatically. This suggests that the noble gas atoms are behaving as cavity resonators for visible light in the same way as Boot and Randall's cavities behave for microwaves. If this explanation is correct then the reason for the dramatic increase in the intensity of emitted light is unknown no longer. Cheers, Frank Grimer Moin Frank, Well, maybe, but probably not. At least, not with this given set of data. The noble gases are most generally used in light generating tubes at low atmospheres because they ionize easily enough, and then return to their original molecular state unchanged. In other words, they are very difficult gases to contaminate with other substances. That is why we call them Noble Gases. If the electrons produced by the collapse of the bubble are sufficient to cause the gas inside the bubble to ionize, then what you are looking at is the light emitted from a straight forward plasma reaction, and nothing more. At least, this is the most commonly accepted explanation offered up by the current researchers, and I find it quite plausible. If you use water or another non conducting liquid laced with radon gas, which is also a noble gas, and you get a higher than background neutron count, then you are looking at a controlled, tabletop nuclear reaction. I would not be particularly surprised or excited about this. If you can do this with a magnetron, then you don't need the water, and you might be getting us a little closer to understanding this concept of beta atmosphere or whatever it is. I have to admit not having the time to go back over your writings on this subject, but the idea does look interesting, and to date, I haven't seen enough discussion about the idea that would shoot it down, either. As far as I am concerned, your flag is still waving, and I hope to understand things better as time permits. If you really think that you can prove or clearly explain that there is a common media between cavitation in a liquid, and cavitation in a microwave, then I think that this would be a great contribution to Science - one that could be engineered to do many useful things. Knuke
Re: The Secret of Sonoluminescence
Grimer wrote: Now since the bubble is a very high pF (low Beta- atmosphere pressure) cavity, it occurred to me that one could see it as miniature cavity magnetron. Th combination of its small size and it low B-a pressure [high tension if one will insist on using an anthropomorphic datum ;-) ] suggests that it will be transmitting EM radiation at very short wave lengths and high frequencies. It is not a bad suggestion, Frank. This crossed my mind many years ago while looking at a magnetron diagram. The main reason I haven't offered it up myself was because I am still trying to conceptualize the differences in the media. Walter Bauke is the father of an old friend of mine, Lee Bauke. Walter worked for the lab in Berlin that developed the magnetron. After being caught up and spit out of the blender known as World War 2, Walter, a young German engineer, found himself married to an English woman, and was wanted by the governments of the various winning countries for his knowledge of the magnetron. He ran. His tale of the events following the war was pretty funny considering the circumstances, but to keep this short, Walter ended up spending the latter part of his career working for NASA in New Mexico. Walter tried explaining to me how a magnetron worked in Seattle, but I wasn't getting it until I saw a diagram. I looked at it, and announced, "This Is Cavitating!". He said "Exactly!" But cavitating what, neither one of us could explain very well. My machine cavitates liquids. His cavitates free electrons in air. What is the connection? Is there a connection? My feeling is that the liquid cavitation phenomena do produce enough free electrons through friction at the final moments of bubble collapse that a mini-plasma forms on the inside of the bubble walls. This is facilitated when a fluid is used that has a high dielectric constant. The combination of these circumstances, (high vacuum inside the bubble, plenty of free electrons, rapidly decreasing dimensions of the bubble, and possible microwaving) are what is driving the various chemical and nuclear reactions that are being observed. It could well be that similar results could be made possible in a gas using a magnetron. Has anyone tried microwaving Radon, for example, and taking a neutron count? Could the dimensions of the magnetron cavities be optimized for various gases as compared to the magnetrons we have in microwave ovens? They don't look all that difficult to build, and it certainly seems worth a try considering the price tag of ITER. Knuke
Sir Arthur in the News
Moin Vorts! This just in on an RSS feed from the BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4746075.stm Knuke
Re: Ed's Storms hope: Recycling
Mike Carrell wrote: Most interesting and another illustration of my point that recycling is not simple at all when you take it seriously. I am surprised that the amount of gallium or arsenic from microchips could possibly alter the metallurgical qualities of steel enough to disqualify it for re-use. Ths principal constiuent of a microship is hyper-pure silicon to which trace amounts of dopants which may include arsenic and gallium are added to produce the transistor effects. These amounts are so small that ordinary chemical analysis of a microchip will report it as pure silicon. An automotive engine compartment is an extremely hars environment for electronics -- hot and electrically noisy -- and it was some time before components were developed that could operate in that environment. Gallium and aresnic might be in other electronic components, or other components of a car. Mike Carrell Moin Mike, Yeah, I was a bit surprised myself. The steel industry itself has evidently become more complex in modern days, and the American steel manufacturers have had to learn higher forms of metalurgy to try and compete quality-wise with their Japanese counterparts. The automobile industry is now demanding a type of steel that is non-magnetizable. I think that this is for the car body, and I think that it may have to do with the shielding of the electrical components against EMP. I am speculating on this, as I don't remember all of the details of the conversation. Another engineer that I know worked on building a EMP test chamber for a Korean car manufacturer to test the car's resistance to external electrical interferance. This was about the same time period, and if you will recall, there were some brands of autos that had high rates of failure in the electrical systems in the early days of the introduction of microchips and computer logic to the control systems of those cars. The other consideration that may have played a role was the toxicity of the gallium and arsenic to the environment, and to the steel workers themselves during the re-processing of the steel. This engineer had an incredible talent for reticence when it came to discussing any possibility of liability or loss of intellectual property. Most successful industrial engineers, and all the engineers that I have met who work on military projects are like that. They come to me with very carefully crafted scientific or engineering questions that are extremely narrow in scope, and then try and give the appearance that they don't even know why they asked the questions in the first place. It is quite often extremely hilarious when you try and get some kind of context out of them. Since I know some of these guys pretty well, I can usually crowbar some info out of them with a few jokes, but I generally stop for the sake of the relationship when it looks like I am entering a subject area that is not funny to them. It is a stark contrast to dicussing an engineering project or a scientific concept in The Vortex Group. Knuke
Re: Ed's Storms hope: Recycling
Mike Carrell wrote: Wesley, you are also correct and after I wrote my piece I remembered that at least one auto manufacturer is producing cars that can easily be [partially] disassembled for segregating into recycling programs. A steel engineer whose major client was an automobile manufacturer approached me about 10 years ago, asking if I knew of a way to remove gallium or arsenic from steel. His company was melting down crushed cars to recycle the steel, and said that those two materials in particular were becoming a problem. Apparently, the more modern cars had enough microchips in them that steel recyclers needed a solution to the problem to keep the quality of the recycled steel high enough for re-use in the automobile industry. I would suspect that a combination of using more modern chips, plus installing as many as possible together in a place that would facilitate their easy removal would solve that problem. This would require industrywide cooperation and standardization (yikes!), but if they haven't done it already, I would think that they would be intelligent enough to see the economical advantages. Knuke
Re: nanonukes
Moin Thomas, From all that I have read and from my own experience, the working fluid should be a good dielectric. There are reasons for this which I haven't written out, but they should be obvious. This is to aid in the formation of a mini-plasma on the inside of the bubble wall as it collapses. Distilled water fits the bill, but acetone might be better. It is also a good solvent. If you do set up an experiment that is an open system, be careful to take into consideration any gases that might be formed as well. Also, I believe what is in the smoke detectors is called Americium, but the name may be slightly different over there. Knuke thomas malloy wrote: The discussion on the nanonuke reminded me of an idea I had. I've noticed that smoke alarms have Americanium in them. Knuke's story about wiping down the yellow tiles with a rag and then ringing them out in water which he subsequently cavitated, makes me wonder what would happen under this scenario. Dissolving the Americanium with acid and the cavitating the material. Given Knuke's story, I think that this experiment would be best conducted by remote control. I suppose that radiation detectors would be a good investment too.
Re: Pleasant dreams from the International Association of Nanotechnology
thomas malloy wrote: Jed Rothwell posted Here is part of an FAQ recently mailed to me by the International Association of Nanotechnology <[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 3. Is it possible to make nano nuclear bomb, using nanotechnology which could release massive lethal nuclear radiation ? Yes. A nano tech nuclear bomb? As I understand it, a critical mass is required to make the bomb explode. Does anyone have an explanation of how something like this would work? You already know how something like this would work, or at least you should by now. According to the Foresight Institute, cavitation bubble collapse is a nanotechnology. It is used constructively to process materials into nano-powders mostly (see Ken Susslick's work for examples), but if used on any radioactive material, it would release massive lethal nuclear radiation. The British Navy found this out while cleaning the hulls of ships that had trace quantities of radioactive material around the torpedo tubes while using a phased-array, transducer based, multi-bubble cavitator to blast away barnacles - hence the NATO conference. I found this out in my kitchen in Seattle while testing my machine. It does not even require that the radioactive material be refined, enriched, or in any other way pre-processed. It just works. Nighty night, sleep tight, and don't let the bedbugs bite. Knuke And as the words were leaving his lips, a knock comes on the door
Re: The Secret of Sonoluminescence
Am Mittwoch, 20. Juli 2005 05:46 schrieb Grimer: > Conceivably, in the limit, one could hydrinate all the > water in the apparatus. If it proved possible to trigger > the release of the hydrinated energy in a chain reaction > one would effectively have a high explosive water bomb. > > Cheers, > > Frank Grimer Moin Frank! Cavitation has been studied intensively by small groups for over 100 years now. Schaeffer and Griggs ran closed loop systems for heating buildings that cavitated the water repeatedly for years without being changed out. I think that if there were any possibility for the water to gain enough energy that it would be explosive, it would have happened by now. With my luck, it would have happened to me! I do have some more comments and questions about your theory, as I find it interesting and worth exploring, but I would like to look up some references first, and my boss just got back from his vacation, so I expect I will be very busy here for a while. He looks quite refreshed. Oh no... Knuke
Re: MAHG - The European Vacation
Am Dienstag, 19. Juli 2005 22:26 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > It's my understanding that many european countries have significantly > better vacation plans than what most private & commercial enterprises dole > out to their employees within the USA, even after 15 - 20 years of > dedicated service. I understand six weeks of "european vacation" per year > is common. > > Regards, > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com This is currently correct for some of the European nations, but unfortunately, not all. In general, a higher educational standard, socialized medicine, healthier food, higher minumum wage, and many, many other benefits (like great beer) were the statutory norm in the wealthier European countries. GATT, NAFTA, pressure from the US controlled World Bank, and the recent acceptance of many lesser developed countries have forced an erosion in the overall quality of the lifestyle for many people in the original EU. Many people still enjoy a six week vacation here, but with the creation of "mini jobs" (part-time, quite often for 1 Euro per hour, no benefits), in Germany for example, the percentage of people enjoying those 6 week vacations is lower than say, 15 or 20 years ago. I have yet to re-visit France this time around so I cannot comment on what is happening there, but the gap between the classes here in Germany has noticably widened in recent years, although still not nearly as badly as it has in the United States. Hopefully, this situation will improve over time as the newly accepted EU members develop their own infrastructures. A lot depends also on how the development of China affects the world market for products and services, and hopefully, a re-discovery by the Europeans of the simple truth that all economies are engineered - not exactly a tenet of the global free marketplace advocates. This was something that used to be common knowledge here, but seems to have been forgotten by many. The Europeans have enough of a population base now, that they don't have to compete globally, and can structure their society and economy simultaneously more democratically and socially. In other words, they don't have to live entirely by free marketplace rules. Personally, I would still prefer to live most anywhere in Europe than to live most anywhere in the US (and not just because of the beer). The Europeans seem to have a more developed sense of fairness, and an understanding that life is about much more than just chasing a buck. I remain optimistic about the future of Europe, and hope that the institution of the 6 week vacation, as well as the numerous other benefits that nearly all Europeans used to enjoy quickly become a reality again for everyone. They are very healthy things. Knuke
Re: New article by Haiko Lietz
Am Montag, 18. Juli 2005 18:01 schrieb Jed Rothwell: > Haiko Lietz has published a new article in German on cavitation: > > http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20541/1.html > > It is attracting a lot of traffic to LENR-CANR.org, from a link in the > article to a paper by Roger Stringham. > > - Jed I find it somewhat incredible that Putterman is still dogging Taleyarkhan about his findings, especially since Putterman himself, spent 4 years prosecuting his own patent for fusion in a cavitation bubble. He got the patent eventually in '94, but seems to want to deny that other people can do it, as well. The entire neutron to light flash timing objection is so lame as to be laughable. Anyway, I'm glad to see Haiko Lietz is making this known to the German public. Very little in the way of experimentation had been done in Germany when I first returned, I think primarily due to the lag time caused by the language barrier. Heise is widely read by the techies here, and the experiment is so inexpensive to do that perhaps more of the European universities will be promted to make the effort to translate the details of the experiment and replicate. Knuke
Re: MAHG: How does H2 avoid constantly itself blowing apart?
Am Dienstag, 12. Juli 2005 16:07 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Gravity? > > I thought covalent sharing of electrons was responsible for the bonds that > "glue" H2 together. Moin Steve, It is called a covalent bond depending on which context or subset of the language of chemistry or physics that you are using, but yes, gravity is what is generally accepted as being what permeates space and holds everything together. Knuke
Re: Fusion is easy
Jones, You might also notice the complete lack of any kind of shielding on this rig. The circuit board for the He3 detector looks like some of the reefer plumbing that was done on the Polar Bear - totally incomprehensible. By the looks of the workbench, Dr. Frank may have worked on the Polar Bear before me, and possibly even The Greatful Dead. This is great stuff, Jones. We can all sleep tonight knowing that the world has been saved from an energy shortage! Knuke Am Dienstag, 12. Juli 2005 23:22 schrieb Jones Beene: > How long will it be before the $20 billion ITER produces as many > fusion neutrons as this way-cool Fusor built by El Dr. Frank? > > Look at the dome, halfway down - > > yup, you guessed it this is a glass salad bowl inverted in a > machined out mag. tire rim. with lots of second hand parts in the > PS > > http://www.cientificosaficionados.com/TBO/fusor/fusor.htm > > I am still ROTFL
Re: MAHG: How does H2 avoid constantly itself blowing apart?
Am Dienstag, 12. Juli 2005 01:38 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Can somebody offer a reasonable explanation as to why atomic hydrogen when > it recombines doesn't blow itself apart in the act? If the amount of > theorized "OU" heat generated during the recombination is a much as claimed > how do the little beasties ever get a chance to successfully cleave, and > obviously they do cleave! Actually, I think that they may blow apart, and recombine many times before coming to a stable diatomic state. This also could well be the reason for the excess energy. > > Doesn't make any sense to me. It does if you look at the cavitation bubble collapse phenomena. The bubble collapses and expands millions of times per second. I think the same thing may be happening to the monoatomic H in the Langmuir torch. > > The only explanation I can come up with is that there may be some kind of a > refractory period involved on the order of nanoseconds or less where > recently recombined H2 is incapable of blowing apart no matter what the > local heat might be. > My picture is of a somewhat variable elastic H atom that is able absorb and store some of the energy of the impact of H+H recombination but not enough to allow an H2 molecule to stay together until a sufficient amount of energy has been stored in the two individual atoms. It could well be that immediately after the initial dissociation, the H atoms have dropped to a lower energy state, "shrunk", as Dr. Mills describes it, and that it takes many repeated attempts at recombination before the two atoms have enough energy stored internally that they are able to permanently reunite. In the shrunken state, they are simply not elastic enough to absorb the impact and stay together. Another key to whether or not the two atoms stay together has to do with the distance traveled for them to reunite. As the two atoms approach each other, they are accelerating due to Casimir forces. With each successive attempt to reunite, a portion of the impact energy is internalized by the individual atoms, giving them more elasticity. The distance that they travel apart from each other upon blowing apart again is shorter, making the next attempt to reunite more likely for success until finally, a balance or equilibrium state is achieved. The individual H atoms cannot remain reunited until their internal energy states match exactly, and are sufficiently high enough to remain in equilibrium with the rest of the universe. Once they are in this state, gravity can hold them together. The excess energy is coming from the ether, and like the cavitation bubble, this could well be an ether pump. Has anyone ever done an energy audit on a bouncing ball? That is what the light measurements look like for a cavitation bubble collapse - short bursts that decrease in intensity with each successive bubble collapse. > I'm not sure I buy this explanation. I'm not sure that I buy my explanation either, but the price is right. Damped if you do, damped if you don't... Knuke > > Regards, > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com
Cold Fusion Computer Research Cluster
Moin Steve, I was surfing e-bay the other day, and saw an entire internet cafe being sold for 999 euro in Berlin - 20 Pentium III computers with monitors, keyboards, mice, router, desks and chairs. Everything looked pretty well beat up, but for that kind of money, what the heck, right? Well, after doing the numbers, it turns out that clustering machines like this is not really cost effective, unless you can get them for free. I installed a version of Linux called Damn Small Linux on a co-worker's Pentium III home computer this week just to see if it would work. She caught a virus while using Win98 that rendered her machine unusable, and she asked me if Linux would run on her machine. She only had 64 Mb ram, and didn't want to spend any money. I told her that most of the major distributions require 256 MB ram to function comfortably, and that it was probably better just to stick with Win98. I was just getting ready to re-install Win98 for her when I ran across a review of Damn Small Linux. I downloaded it, burned it, and did the install. After the install and the re-boot, I was almost blasted out of my chair by the speed. The distro comes with a bunch of programs like a browser, email, VoIP, office stuff, CD burner, some games, and, and, and... AND the entire distro is only 50MB. This is with a nice, graphical interface, and I can fit the entire thing onto a 10 euro, 64 MB bootable USB stick, and still have a little room left over. What was amazing to me was the fact that the installation was fully automated, and required very little input from me. It automatically figured out what was in the machine, and had all of the appropriate drivers. The only thing that it choked on was the German keyboard, and after doing a bit of reading on the forums, I got that sorted out. While researching the keyboard problem, I ran into articles by people who were running this OS on old Ataris and Apples with as little as 16MB ram. This is when I semi-seriously considered buying the internet cafe. I had done some reading before on what it would take to roll your own Linux for any particular machine. It is reported that if you really want to squeeze as much performance out of a machine as is physically possible, compiling your own kernel and programs is what is required. I think that it could be done by someone with my level of experience, but it would take a lot of work and experimentation. Clustering a group of machines like the ones mentioned above would undoubtedly require a lot more of the same thing. What would get for your efforts? Well, the theoretical maximum for 20 PIII headless nodes would only be roughly 10 Ghz processing power with 1.2 gigs of shared ram. You can build your own Athlon64 with a gig of ram for well under 300 euros these days, and save yourself the expense of an industrial strength airconditioner. Still, the clustering idea has merits. If you do it like SETI on a voluntary WAN basis over the Internet, with a generic Linux OS like Damn Small Linux that will run on anything, including a modern toaster, you might be able to assemble enough computers together for free to do some serious computational analysis. Considering that most of us have machines that are way better than a PIII, I would think that a teraflop is easily within reach. Anybody interested in pursuing this? Knuke Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 15:43 schrieb Stephen A. Lawrence: > Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > > For ~ $10,000 you can build a Beowolf cluster in your basement with at > > least a dozen computers running in parallel (but you'll need some > > pretty serious air conditioning). > > Oops -- that's Beow_u_lf, not Beow_o_lf. Like in http://www.beowulf.org/ > > Thinking of this makes me wonder why I haven't read anything about > computational cold fusion experiments. (Maybe the fault is mine, and I > just haven't noticed the work that's been done?) It seems like some of > the theories are complete enough to allow simulation, and Linux (or Mac) > clusters are cheap enough to build on a shoestring budget.
Re: OT Noise Cancelation
Moin Vorts! Thanks for all the feedback (no pun intended, of course) on the noise problem. I have seen all of the headsets, and I have read that they work pretty well. I decided to give those a miss, mainly because of the prices, and secondly, because I do want to hear what is going on inside my apartment (stereo, phone, firealarm, etc). I also don't like the idea of wearing any more than I have to. I am pretty much a shorts, sandals and a smile kind of guy in the summer. The house is built out of massive stone. The walls are at least 3 feet thick. The ceilings are 12 feet high - it is a grand old place. If I could find another place like it a little farther back from the street, I would be out of here like a shot, but even by European standards, this place is a real find. My bedroom is shaped like a giant bay window with 3 windows that are roughly 7 feet high and 4 feet wide. Nearly all of the houses here have double-paned, glass windows now, but in the summer, you want to have them kipped open. Nobody uses air conditioning here, and I wouldn't want to miss out on the sea breezes, anyway. I did a bunch of googling, reading, and then waited until after midnight to do some thinking. That is generally when the din subsides somewhat during the week - on the weekends, thought is impossible here. I found a bunch of audio programs that will do phase reversal, etc., and was thinking along those lines. The latency issue can be solved by today's modern hardware with no problem, but the software still has to be pretty lean. I thought about possibly writing some kind of fast fourier transform flip, either in a compiled language or assembler, and running that in Dos or Linux with no GUI on an old dedicated 500 megahertz box. Then it suddenly occurred to me that we still have analog! The microphone signal run through a diode should flip the wave, run that through an opamp, and out to a speaker. What could be faster, simpler or cheaper? Mike Carrell's observations have given me some pause, but I think that with proper positioning of the components I should be able to achieve at least some noise reduction. I think I am going to try out the analog idea, and see how it works on one window. I reckon that if I mount everything properly just outside the window, I might get enough of the effect that I want without the howling, and then do the other two windows. The components will be cheap enough. Come to think of it, pretty much everything I need to do the proof of concept, except for the diode, is included in a megaphone. That I can get locally. I would just need to take it apart and play with the positioning. Now, I just need to find the time to do it. Thanks again! Knuke
OT Noise Cancelation
Moin Moin! A couple of years ago, I moved from a small village in the southern part of the Czech Republic to Flensburg, Germany. Before that, I lived for nearly a year in an old Bavarian farmhouse. The Bavarian farmhouse, and the village in the Czech Republic were remote enough from the larger metropolitan areas that they were very quiet and peaceful. One could go to bed at night, and not hear anything except the sounds of nature, and I found it to be very good for my nerves, and general health. Flensburg however, is another story. It is a beautiful little city with a lot to offer in terms of cultural events, shopping and good eateries. My apartment is in a wonderful old mansion that overlooks the old harbor on a fiord, which is chockers with more antique sailing boats than I have ever seen in my life. The residents of Flensburg are fanatical gardeners, so as soon as the weather is right, the city explodes with flowers. Everything about my current setup would be Perfect, if it were not for the the noise. Right between my apartment and this gorgeous view is a main coastal road that is used by all of the transport vehicles, as well as all of the emergency and police vehicles to service the outlying areas to the East of the city. The traffic is non-stop, and due to my proximity to the street, I sometimes wake up with the feeling that the last passing ambulance or police car just drove over the foot of my bed. It is driving me completely bonkers, and I have to do something about it. I would also like the solution to be something more interesting than stuffing cotton balls in my ears, or looking for another apartment. I read some years ago a little about various different noise cancelation technologies involving a microphone, a computer with a sound card, and a set of speakers. The basic idea was to take in a sound wave with the microphone, produce an opposite sound wave in the computer, and then blast it back through the speakers aimed at the unwanted noise source to cancel the sound. I have a bunch of computers around here that I could use, and I would welcome the opportunity to do a project. Does anyone here know of any links to homebrew noise cancelation solutions such as this? Quaking in Flensburg, Knuke
Re: I Love That Town!
Am Sonntag, 5. Juni 2005 14:40 schrieb Mike Carrell: > Very interesting, but this is a niche solution because of the proximity of > the Grand Coulee dam and the fact that the water flows day and night. Grand > Coulee supplies power to a large transmission network; within that network, > the logic applies. > > If you are an automaker investing in the hybrid world, you have to look at > the whole market, including the many places where pollution is created as a > byproduct of producing energy, whethe in a stationary power plant or on > board a car. In those locations, the plug-in hybrid just shifts the source > of pollution from the refined on-board engine to a central power plant. > > In the context of resources available this day, the way out of the > energy/pollution/.warming problem may be a patchwork of niche applications. > In my view, hybrids are a necessary phase before the commercial emergence > of really advanced energy sources. > > Mike Carrell - I agree, but what I find interesting is that Seattle doing something that most other cities would not even consider doing because they can't. What is not stated in the article, but is very relevant, is the fact that the City of Seattle actually owns the power company. The result has been that Seattle's residents have enjoyed some of the lowest rates available anywhere on the planet. I don't know what they are charging right now, but when I first moved there, I was paying 2.5 cents per kilowatt hour. When I left, it was a bit higher, but not by much. Billb could probably tell you what the present rate is. So, Seattle is leveraging its grassroots political power to influence the automakers to produce an auto that fits their particular niche. Other cities and areas may be able to benefit from this kind of auto as well, but getting the auto manufacturers to widen the options of what is available will take organizing on the scale that Seattle has initiated. Besides being one of the cheapest cities to live in for electrical costs, Seattle would also benefit by having better air quality, less inner-city traffic noise, and by being one of the cheapest cities in which to drive a vehicle - if you chose the right vehicle. The question is, will the auto manufacturers react in a positive manner to this type of initiative, and actually produce that auto, or will we all remain enslaved to what they decide we want. Knuke
I Love That Town!
Gnorts, Once again, Seattle is doing something intelligent. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/227172_cars04.html Knuke
Re: Freezing Gas Prices
Moin Terry! This is an interesting story. There was an old saw among boat owners and engineers in Alaska - Never Buy a Warm Water Boat. They were all convinced that a used boat that had spent a long time in warm water was more apt to wear out faster. This was purely based purely on anecdotal observation, and Alaska water never gets below 29 degrees Fahrenheit, but it may turn out to have at least some scientific basis. Knuke Am Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 17:44 schrieb Terry Blanton: > Can't do that, but you *can* freeze your engine: > > http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?s=3390503 > > "A hybrid Honda typically gets really great gas mileage anyway, around 50 > miles to the gallon, but David Hutchison's cryogenically tempered engine > has been known to get close to 120 miles a gallon." > > A new Hutchison Effect!
Re: The Fifth Age of Sand
Moin! If you ever have a chance to visit Burghausen, I highly recommend it. It has a castle that you can actually live in if you want. The ownership of the Burghausen castle went back and forth between Germany, France and Austria a number of times. When Napoleon did his tear through Europe, his army could not breach the fortress. He ended up conquering everything around Burghausen, and then just waited until the forces inside the fortress got hungry enough to hand over the keys peacefully. Once inside, the first thing he did was tear down the portions that were giving him so much problem in case he had to take the castle again by force. In modern days, the ownership of the castle was something of a political annoyance. The Austrian government finally handed it back over to the Germans since it was on German soil, and the German government placed it in the hands of the residents of the town of Burghausen. The castle is quite large, and had been sorely neglected for some years, and it was going to cost quite a bit of money to restore, so the town decided to subdivide portions of it, and rent it out to apartment dwellers and boutique owners. I saw an ad in the local paper for an apartment that was coming available, and it wasn't renting for all that much, either. The town also collected a bunch of artwork, antique furniture and old armaments and made two museums and a botanical garden to attract tourist income. I was there a couple of years ago on a very cold, rainy day, and spent nearly the entire day in the art museum. I have been to quite a few museums here in Europe, but what made this one stand apart was the fact that the museum management evidently did not have the resources to properly secure anything. Paintings and statues dating back to the 1200's were just placed in rooms with no glass or plastic coverings, and you could go right up to them and study them in great detail. There were small signs asking you not to touch anything (and I didn't, of course), but there were no visible security guards or cameras. This is quite rare in a modern day museum in a civilized country. They had huge, wall sized oil paintings depicting some of the more famous battles that were almost photorealistic. It was kind of a spooky feeling to see the life size faces of the wounded and dying soldiers, the crazed eyes of the knights' horses, and so on, in the very same place that you were standing 600 years later. The majority of the castle is unchanged. Another weird thing was that none of the rooms had fireplaces. This is in the foothills of the Alps, and I after spending one entire Winter on the shore of the Chiemsee in a tent, I can tell you that it gets pretty darn cold. I am planning another trip down to that area to see some friends in August, and Burghausen is high on my list of things to do again. It was too early in the year the last time I visited to go through the botanical garden, but I have heard that it is fantastic. The other museum holds all of the old armour and armaments that the town could find, and I want to go through that, as well. Who knows, maybe they do tours of the Wacker plant, as well! Burghausen is one of those "best kept secrets" of Europe, despite all of the efforts of the town to get people to visit. Cheers! Knuke
Re: Private industry takes on global warming...
Moin Moin! I think the first time I was in Switzerland was in 79 or 80. I landed in Geneva, and took a train around to the Montreux - Vevey area. It was late Springtime, and I was completely knocked out by the sheer beauty of the place. The trees were in full bloom, the grass was green, and there were flowers growing everywhere. I stayed in several chalets up in the mountains, and in every one, the proprietor would show me pictures of what the place looked like the year before. There had evidently been some hard, warm rains in the previous Spring which caused massive landslides. From the photos, everything was a brown, mucky mess. Roads were washed out, chalets were half buried in mud. It was hard to believe that I was standing in the same place. I agree that this action by the ski resort is only treating an environmental symtom, but I am sure that the local insurance companies are all giving it a thumbs up. The property damage claims from the mudslides must have been enormous. Knuke
Re: Syngas - Now I know it is a plasma system
Moin Chris, I'm sure you have probably heard of Dr. Santilli. I haven't kept up with the latest, but the last I heard, he was doing pretty well. His website is: http://www.magnegas.com/ Knuke Am Samstag, 21. Mai 2005 07:27 schrieb Christopher Arnold: > What an Amazing coincidence. Team member at Fairchild International Corp., > Mr. Wilf Ouellette contacted me several years ago about my plasma system. > My proposal was for Converting oil and organics into syngas. Wilf, under > the guise of working as a consultant for an Oil Company was very interested > in my technology. > > I bet I can even identify each component function of this Canadian Syngas > system without any help, because the whole system looks very familiar to > me. It looks like my proposed system, however only a look inside will tell > for sure - but I am positive it is Plasma based. > > I am not surprised Wilf (a Canadian) believed me - the question is, when > will my fellow Americans? > > Warmest Regards, > > Chris Arnold > > http://members.aol.com/hypercom59 > > Michael Huffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Moin Vorts! > > When I looked at the lineup up of technologies that they were plugging on > that website, and where it was located, I thought that maybe it was being > run by that guy in Canada that was building those Brown Gas machines. So... > I hit the Contact link, and BOY was I surprised! They couldn't be related > could they?! > > Knuke > > > > > > > > - > Yahoo! Mail Mobile > Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone.
Re: Syngas
Moin Vorts! When I looked at the lineup up of technologies that they were plugging on that website, and where it was located, I thought that maybe it was being run by that guy in Canada that was building those Brown Gas machines. So... I hit the Contact link, and BOY was I surprised! They couldn't be related could they?! Knuke
Re: Washington State Solar Bill Signed
Moin Nick, I wasn't aware that RWE owned Schott. RWE is mostly known as a telco here, but they also have holdings in the electrical power industry as well, I think. I have a couple of friends who work for them. They were one of the first to have a license for that technology that allows broadband digital information to be transmitted over the powerlines. I don't think that it is available where I live, but definitely is in use in the major market areas like Berlin and Hamburg. I've read good reports about it. Schott is mostly known for their hightemp glasswear. They make stove-tops, etc.. It is a sign of the times that I have to go to a Yank newsgroup to read from a Brit about what is happening in Krautville. The Global Market, and the Global Information Age seem to be a necessary match. Cheers, Knuke Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 22:33 schrieb Nick Reiter: I think the big PV players > in Germany are RWE Schott (with a Si plant in > Billerica, Mass) and Q-Cells. > > NR
Re: Cavitation neutrons - was: Blast from the Past -
Moin Jeff. The runaway events happened on the first model that I built. I did these runs in my kitchen less than a foot away from these radioactive tiles, but I had no clue that they were radioactive until later. While trying to get a subsequent model to do the runaway thing again, I came up with the crazy idea of lacing the water, thinking that it may have played a roll. I used the geiger counter quite a bit while wiping down the tiles, but didn't turn it on for the initial test run itself. I was in a hurry, and wanted to see what would happen. Now I know. This is all in the VG archives, if you want to download all of those huge files and run text searches. At Bill Beaty's website there used to be a photo of the first model, torn down, and sitting on my kitchen counter. One more word of warning though, if you go onto Bill Beaty's website, leave a trail of breadcrumbs or make bookmarks or something so that you don't get lost. Whenever I visit Bill's website, I always get lost for hours, if not days. It's pretty weird in there. Knuke Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 23:26 schrieb revtec: > - Original Message - > From: "Michael Huffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 2:21 PM > Subject: Re: Cavitation neutrons - was: Blast from the Past - > > I reread your article in 1995 vol. 1 , no. 1of IE which concluded with your > impending success. What happened? Didn't your next model work? I recall > knowing about your kitchen sheathed in yellow cake tiles, but can't recall > if you told me that or if it was mentioned in a subsequent article that I > am yet to rediscover. The implication was that the runaway operation was > possibly caused because the experiment was surrounded by radioactive walls. > I don't recall that you ever indicated that you used uranium laced water to > fuel the turbine. Was it during the runaway describe in the article that > you suffered injury or was it during a later experiment? > > Jeff
Re: Washington State Solar Bill Signed
Moin Terry, I know very little about what kind of deals the German government made with the power companies, but there must have been something similar as to the tax incentives for the power companies. Apparently, there was a major consolidation of the utilities in general in the last 5 years or so, so I would imagine that they have a pretty powerful lobby, but they are at the same time intelligent enough politically to apply their influence in the background. The power company name that I see most often is called Eon. As for the type of material that is in use for the panels, I'm not sure. I recall reading some time ago that Siemens was one of the major players in the solar panel industry here, and that they were offering panels that came with a 20 year warranty. A quick search would probably bring up a lot of hype on whatever technology is in production. I could write my engineer friend, and ask him what he decided to use. I am long overdue in writing to him anyway. I'll let you know what he says. Knuke Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 17:46 schrieb Terry Blanton: > Yes, Germany is mentioned in the first reference. I don't know how it > works there; however, in WA, the power companies are given tax incentives > for their cooperation. > > Generally, do the Germans use crystalline or amorphous? > > http://solar.calvin.edu/education/comparison.php
Re: Cavitation neutrons - was: Blast from the Past -
Moin Jones, To my knowledge, nobody has ever written anything on this subject except me, but it was such an obvious thing to do, that I am sure somebody else has tried it. I should say that I am nearly 100% sure that others know of this, but are just not allowed to disclose. Shortly after I did my experiment, a NATO conference was held just North of Seattle and all of the major people working with cavitation at that time were "invited". That would include Putterman, the rest of the UC cavitation bunch, and the U of Washington cavitation crowd. The rest were military guys, mostly from the Navy. I was not allowed in, of course. My one and only experiment with radioactive stuff was in 1996. As it happened, I was living in an old apartment in the Capitol Hill area of downtown Seattle that had yellowcake glazed tiles on the kitchen walls. The apartment was about 100 years old, and yellowcake was a commonly used material back then for glazing tiles. I cut up some old Levis jeans into squares about 5 inches square, simply wiped the kitchen tiles down with the jeans material dampened with tap water, and then I let about 6 of these squares soak overnight in a couple of liters of tap water that I put in the fridge. The next day, I ran the water through my machine, but after about 5 seconds, I felt like I had been hit by a truck. I turned the machine off and stumbled into the bathroom. My eyes were completely bloody, my nose was bleeding, and I didn't know which end of me to point at the toilet first. It was a bloody mess, as the Brits would say. I spent the next two weeks in absolute agony, but I slowly recovered. The rotor of my device was shot through with holes. The first really stupid thing about that experiment was that I did it without any shielding. The second really stupid thing about it was that I had a geiger counter in my apartment, and just didn't bother to turn it on. Actually, the first really, really stupid thing about doing that experiment was doing it at all. I didn't write it up at the time, basically because I was afraid. I forget exactly when I did disclose it publically, but I think that it was 2 or 3 years later when I was reading one of Scott Little's online experiments that looked like it might actually work. Like so many other experimenters we know or knew, this highly trained, extremely intelligent, meticulously careful person was pressing his face up against some thin plexiglass window to watch what was happening inside of a functioning cell. He had loads of shielding and measuring gear in his lab, and was desperately working to initiate a nuclear reaction, but he wasn't using any of the safety or measuring equipment. I finally wrote up what happened to me to illustrate (once again) what can happen when things actually do work the way you hope. I take it Mizuno wasn't reading the Vortex Group that day, either. I personally have no desire to ever repeat this, as there are more than enough non-nuclear, sane applications for my device for me to spend several lifetimes doing experiments with it. It is a really cool machine. If you are crazy enough to try something like this out yourself however, I would highly recommend using a SBSL rig, instead of a massively multibubble device like mine, to make the experiment a lot safer (easier and cheaper too, I might add). Use shielding out the wazoo, and turn your geiger counter on. Fission is all too easy when you use cavitation. You don't need a lot of radioactive material, either. Like I said, I just wiped down the surface of the tiles with damp cloth, and had more than plenty. You couldn't even see any trace of the radioactive material on the cloth, it was such a small amount. Viel Glueck und Rotsa Rueck! Knuke Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 17:02 schrieb Jones Beene: > Guten Tag Knuke, > > > The rotary cavitation device is still a very interesting > > machine, in my > > opinion. I think that it would make a dandy subcritical neutron > > generator, > > Is there a documented experiment showing neutron production from a > rotary cavitation device? > > Jones
Re: Washington State Solar Bill Signed
Moin Terry, This is similar to how the Germans have been promoting the use of solar for some time now (at least five years, I would guess). It has been quite successful. I don't know the exact euro cent difference per kWhr or if there is a cap on the annual amount, but they have made it law that the power companies buy back any extra power fed into the grid at a rate that exceeds what the power company can sell it for. When I got here 3 years ago, I talked to a young power company engineer about this, and at the time, he was pretty hot about the subject. He said basically, that it was a giant fraud, etc., and that the power companies shouldn't have to buy the power back at all. This same young man just bought his own home however in the last year, and the first thing he did was cover all of his roof space with S panels. He is not dumb. After living in the US, especially in Florida where the sun shines year round, and not seeing ANY solar panels, it is a joy to drive around the German countryside. Solar panels are on many homes and barns. In North Germany, you see quite a few giant windmills, as well. To me, they are not ugly, and most people that I have talked to celebrate the fact that Germany is becoming more self sufficient for its energy needs, and that they are slowly accomplishing that in an environmentally friendly, and non warlike way. Being one of the most progressive states in the Union, I am not surprised to hear that Washington State finally adopted a similar stance. This should be especially good for the people living in the Seattle area because the power company charges so little per kWhr. When I was there, it was under a nickel, but that may have changed. Billb would know. Way to go, Washington! Knuke Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 16:15 schrieb Terry Blanton: > http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/002714.html > > http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2005-06/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legi >slature/5101-S.PL.htm > > or > > http://tinyurl.com/d392d > > Allows for recovery of 15 cents per kWhr up to $2,000 per annum for > renewable energy generation including solar and anerobic digesters!
Re: Blast from the Past - quotes from Edward Teller
Moin Jeff! The rotary cavitation device is still a very interesting machine, in my opinion. I think that it would make a dandy subcritical neutron generator, ala Jones Beene. It would bring the cost down to under 20K per unit as opposed to 500K. It can be used for many, many other things as well, of course. I do remember your plans to build one, and if I remember correctly, your idea for the shaft seal was the major problem with your design. You need to be able to be able to build a certain amount of pressure inside the device for it to work properly. For about seven years I did not have the money to work on the device, myself. I have the money now actually, but no time. I do plan to get back to it eventually, but I am currently working another one of those 24/7 jobs. I have had 2 days off in the last 11 months, and whenever I mention the vacation word to my boss, he laughs, and says "Sure! Next Year!". He's a real funny guy. I am looking around for a job that lets me eat, sleep, go to the bathroom, take showers, take days off, vacations, etc., without interruption. Anyway, that is the state of that. If you or anyone else is interested in developing the cavitation device further, I will be glad to assist as my time permits. All of my work or ideas however, will be publically posted so that they are in the public domain. Knuke Am Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2005 14:34 schrieb revtec: > Hey Knuke, > > I have a question for you. What ever happened to your experiment with the > run away plexiglass cavitating turbine. That was a really interesting > article in IE about ten years ago. So interesting that at that time I > attempted to approximate in steel what you did in plastic. I'm sure Mike > Carrell would chide me for not duplicating your machine exactly, but that's > just the way I am. After all, your version melted, and I didn't want that > to happen to me. I put about a thousand bucks into it without getting any > notable results. (That on top of a few thousand into PAGD.) > Not long after that, I spent a hundred dollars on refrigerator magnets a la > Greg Watson. > > I met Gene Mallove twice and spoke to him numerous times on the phone. He > was a bit dismayed when I called once to cancel my subscription to IE. He > said, "don't you like the magazine?" I said, " Sure I do. I just can't > afford it any more because I keep trying to build this stuff." > > Back to the turbine. Perhaps a lot of info was posted years ago and I > missed it. Could someone fill me in? > > Jeff
Re: Blast from the Past - quotes from Edward Teller
Am Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2005 21:40 schrieb Jed Rothwell: A number > of Dr. Jones' statistical findings are listed in the following table: > > Reduced Life Expectancy > Being 10 per cent overweight: 1.5 years > Smoking one pack of cigarettes a day: 9 years > Living in the city instead of the country: 5 years > Remaining unmarried: 5 years > Having a sedentary job instead of one involving exercise: 5 years > Being of the male sex: 3 years > Automobile accidents: 1 year > One roentgen of radiation: 5 to 10 days > The world-wide fallout (lifetime dose at present level): 1 to 2 days Going just by this table Jed, I should have been dead 25 years ago, and Dr. Jones has left out all of the REALLY toxic and stressful stuff that I have done or been exposed to in my life. Go figure... Statistically yours, Knuke
Re: BBC Horizon to feature Taleyarkhan
Gnorts again°! Actually, I think that I am confusing Taleyarkhan with an earlier researcher with a similar name. I did a quick Google, and came up with a paper at: http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/hottopics/bubble/1067589.pdf In the references, he credits just about everybody worth crediting. Crum, Matula, Susslick, Gaitan, Barber, etc., etc.. I just did a quick read of the paper, but it looks pretty convincing, and the experiment itself looks to be easy enough to set up with enough money and equipment. I hope the BBC doesn't snot the whole thing up so that it doesn't work on prime time. The assasination of dreams is not a pretty thing to watch. Knuke Am Donnerstag, 17. Februar 2005 18:55 schrieb Michael Huffman: > Moin Moin! > > I'm just glad (and a bit surprised, actually) to see Taleyarkhan's work > being examined at all. I read very vague references to his work when I > first started researching cavitation in 1993, and that was in the form of > some BBS messages or something. It wasn't even on the internet. In some > references, he was referred to as being a professor, in others not. There > was no mention of his country of origin, and by his name, I figured that he > was Russian. > > He was using cavitation to clean large aquarium tanks in the far East - > Singapore, I believe, in the mid 70's. Beyond that, there was never any > mention of him, and I was digging for info on him for years. His work just > wasn't very widely published back then. As I recall, he had only published > two papers in some very obscure journals, and I never could find any copies > of those. > > Of course, you are right that a large number of people have contributed to > the science since Lord Reyleigh first proposed the cavitation bubble > collapse hypothosis in the late 1800's, and Jed is also right about the > black and white nature of the announcement of the BBC experiment, but that > is purely showbizness. > > The fact remains though, that Taleyarkhan was doing useful work with > cavitation twenty years before the likes of me, Tessien, or Putterman got > into the act, and I am glad to see that he is still around. By his foto, > he doesn't look to be all that old, either. It would be interesting to > learn more about his career. > > Knuke > > > Even so, it was a big mistake, and typical mainstream > > arrogance, that in all the publicity that Taleyarkhan > > recieved (riding on the ORNL coat-tails) that he did not > > credit nor even mention the extraordinary contributions to > > the field of sonfusion from former vortex contributor Ross > > Tessien, founder of Impulse Devices, and Dr. Gaitan the > > chief scientist (nor did he mention Knuke either, but should > > have !). Caveat: this criticism relates to the first ORNL > > announcement and they may have issued an addenda, but if so, > > it didn't make the news. > > > > Here is some new and surprising info from them (Tessien's > > Co); > > http://tinyurl.com/6f5me
Re: BBC Horizon to feature Taleyarkhan
Moin Moin! I'm just glad (and a bit surprised, actually) to see Taleyarkhan's work being examined at all. I read very vague references to his work when I first started researching cavitation in 1993, and that was in the form of some BBS messages or something. It wasn't even on the internet. In some references, he was referred to as being a professor, in others not. There was no mention of his country of origin, and by his name, I figured that he was Russian. He was using cavitation to clean large aquarium tanks in the far East - Singapore, I believe, in the mid 70's. Beyond that, there was never any mention of him, and I was digging for info on him for years. His work just wasn't very widely published back then. As I recall, he had only published two papers in some very obscure journals, and I never could find any copies of those. Of course, you are right that a large number of people have contributed to the science since Lord Reyleigh first proposed the cavitation bubble collapse hypothosis in the late 1800's, and Jed is also right about the black and white nature of the announcement of the BBC experiment, but that is purely showbizness. The fact remains though, that Taleyarkhan was doing useful work with cavitation twenty years before the likes of me, Tessien, or Putterman got into the act, and I am glad to see that he is still around. By his foto, he doesn't look to be all that old, either. It would be interesting to learn more about his career. Knuke > Even so, it was a big mistake, and typical mainstream > arrogance, that in all the publicity that Taleyarkhan > recieved (riding on the ORNL coat-tails) that he did not > credit nor even mention the extraordinary contributions to > the field of sonfusion from former vortex contributor Ross > Tessien, founder of Impulse Devices, and Dr. Gaitan the > chief scientist (nor did he mention Knuke either, but should > have !). Caveat: this criticism relates to the first ORNL > announcement and they may have issued an addenda, but if so, > it didn't make the news. > > Here is some new and surprising info from them (Tessien's > Co); > http://tinyurl.com/6f5me
Re: BBC Horizon to feature Taleyarkhan
Gnorts, Taleyarkhan has been doing cavitation experiments for over thirty years, Jed. Knuke Am Donnerstag, 17. Februar 2005 16:47 schrieb Jed Rothwell: > [It is absurd that these people think a claim can be disproved with a > single experiment! And if they do not really believe that, they should not > say it, because people viewing the television will believe them. - JR] > > Horizon > Thu 17 Feb, 9:00 pm - 9:50 pm 50mins (BBC2) > > An Experiment to Save the World > > Horizon takes one of the most controversial and ambitious claims in > science, and conducts an experiment to see if it's really true. If the > experiment works, then the world could be on the way to a new form of > cheap, unlimited, pollution free energy. But if it fails, then that dream > will die. The experiment is an attempt to make nuclear fusion, one of the > Holy Grails of science. > > Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the sun, and scientists know that > if they could just make fusion happen here on Earth, they could solve all > the world's energy problems. Billions of pounds have been spent, but so far > nuclear fusion has failed to deliver. > > Now an American scientist claims to have created nuclear fusion simply by > bombarding a flask of liquid with sound waves. His work has been published > in Science Magazine, one of the most prestigious journals in the world. But > many scientists refuse to believe his claims. > > Horizon attempts to sort the matter out once and for all; we've > commissioned a team of world class scientists to try and replicate Rusi > Taleyarkhan's experiment. This film reveals the result of that experiment. > [With audio description] > > Subtitles Stereo Widescreen > > Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/horizon/
Re: Mozilla Firefox - Thumbs up!
> >Anybody using Linspire (Linux) 4.5? > >Jones Haven't had the chance, but I switched everybody at work over to Konqueror and Kmail, the programs that come (or should I say Kome?) with the KDE package. My co-workers are quite happy with them. In the more recent incarnations of KDE, they cobbled a bunch of separate programs together with a common user interface for the e-mail program, Kmail, so that it more closely resembles Outlook. It has a calendar, day planner, group messaging capabilities, and some other junk. The result was mammouth program that was ugly, loaded much more slowly, and nobody was using any of the other features (just like Outlook!). I dug around a bit, and found a way to load just the Kmail program itself, and everybody was happy again. As for security, Kmail has the ability let you read your e-mail while it is still on the ISP server. You can delete anything that looks suspicious on your ISP server before it is brought over to your machine. I have found that European ISPs are much more proactive in protecting their customer base from viruses, trojans, spam, etc., than their American counterparts, but occasionally I do get a spam e-mail or a virus in my e-mail. It is a very rare occurrence when a bad e-mail makes it through the ISP's filters here, but having the ability to delete it on the ISP server prevents any unpleasant surprises. I am not sure if Outlook allows you to do this, since I have not used the M$oft e-mail clients for well over a decade. I know that it did not use to allow it, and it would automatically open and execute everything that landed in your mailbox. That was what prompted me to look around for alternatives in the first place. If M$oft did improve their e-mail client, I'm sure that took an Act of Congress to get them to do so. I have read that the Mozilla e-mail client is also pretty decent, and one of the guys here at work uses it in Linux. He swears by it. Again, my experience with Linux is so limited that if I do get something to function here the way I would like it to, the champagne corks fly, and I do not have the luxury, timewise, to be comparing a lot of different programs. I have also read some good things about the email client Evolution. It is recommended by Linus, himself. I have it on my machine, and I have popped it up to take a look at it, but I haven't used it on a daily basis. What I recommend for an e-mail client for Windoze is Popcorn from Ultrafunk. It is incredibly free, small, fast, and allows you to read everything in plain text on your ISP server before you take it on to your machine. It only reads plain text, so you are fairly safe. You need another client if you want to look at foto attachments or HTML rendered e-mail. I particularly like it because I can easily fit it on to my USB stick, and check my mail on any Windoze machine I happen to find myself sitting on at the moment, anywhere in the world. After reading my mail, I just let it sit on the ISP server until I get home. I should look around for something similar for Linux, as I find myself sitting on more and more Linux machines as time goes by. Perhaps Horace has a suggestion. Knuke
Re: Physics today 1/25/05
> >Jones Beene wrote: >> Even scarier is now that K_ _ ke has >> signed back onto vortex from a Euro ISP, the unauthorized >> attempts will probably increase ;-) > >THAT IS SCARY. :-) > >Frederick > Actually, this is the first time in the last 5 years or so that the Vortex Group hasn't crashed completely for three days after I made a post. Things are getting BETTER! Jed did make a good point however, that it is dead easy to hide your identity while posting, and you can do it while you surf, as well. In 1993, when I first got on to the internet and began researching and posting, I did not know any of the tricks. I was just really, really glad that I could set up an e-mail program that worked. As the subject of computer security became more important, we pretty much all learned together just how easy it was to break into someone else's machine. I think that the reason that I caught so many people back then was that their efforts to break in were every bit as amatuerish or naive, as mine were in something as simple as successfully sending an e-mail. As time went by, both the snoopers and the snooped gained more knowledge, experience and sophistication. I don't bother reading my firewall logs anymore, primarily because I am just too lazy. I am just not as interesting to the snoopers as I used to be either, because I am not actively doing any research in this field at the moment. Knuke Absolutely NO Sparbarinos were sacrificed in the making of this message.
Re: Physics today 1/25/05 feder
Gnorts! One of the misconceptions regarding the research done by private industry is that private industry would publish their work, or even let it be known that work was being done in a particular field by that industry in the first place. Private industry only reports on what it does if it is legally required to do so, or if there is some kind of public relations advantage to informing the public of its actions. The above is true for every aspect of its operation from payroll to tax accounting procedures to suppliers to the names of the members of the board of directors, etc., etc.. Research direction is particularly well hidden so as not to tip off the competition as to any new products that may be introduced in the future. This is just the way private industry operates. If you want to get an indication of how many people, and sometimes even the identities of the people or organizations, who are doing research in your particular field, simply publish your work, and then read the logs on your computer firewall. You will find the addresses of the computers that are trying to gain access to your computer. In many cases, you can trace the numerical addresses back directly to the registered owners of those addresses. It was a hobby of mine for quite some time, and I must say, it was fascinating. University high energy physics labs, heavy industry companies, energy consultant firms, engineering companies, domestic and foreign governments, all will want to get into your computer to find out more about who you are and exactly what you are doing. Practically none (and believe me, I have looked hard...) of these entities ever published a single word about their own endeavors in the field. In the few cases where they did, the information was very general and usually written to attract new shareholders or generate sales of their own technologies. To say that the industrial world is not investigating cold fusion just because you don't read about it in the Wall Street Journal is extremely naive. The levels of funding, the names of the scientists, and who they are working for are a matter of speculation unless, of course, you can fund your own industrial espionage effort. The fact remains, however, that the number and frequency of attempts to gain access to your particular research efforts are a good indication that serious efforts are underway by private industry in this field. It is also proof that these entities still feel that theft of intellectual property is quite often cheaper and faster than doing the original research themselves. Knuke
Off Topic: A Couple of Tips
Title: Re: URL: Cold Fusion Back From the Dead - U.S. Energy Ahoy Vorts! Just thought I'd pass along a couple of things that may be of interest, one is wireless computer networking related, and the other is health related. First of all, as some may remember, I switched over to running Linux for an operating system a couple of years ago. The switchover fit well with my general philosophies of life and how to live it, and for the most part, it has been extremely rewarding. So much so, that I've managed to convince a number of other people to make the switch as well. The switch has not been entirely without its challenges however, and that is the reason for this posting. About a year ago, I convinced my boss that he could save a lot of money, down time, and security worries if he switched his two networks over to Linux. He bought the idea, and we switched over most (but not all) of computers to pure Linux. After a short adjustment period, everyone at work was quite happy with the performance gains and dependability of the system and programs. My boss also got the bug to go wireless shortly afterword with a few of the machines, and that was where I ran into The Wall. I researched and did experiments for hundreds of hours on how to make a wireless adaptor work under Linux - all for naught. There are many people who have done it successfully, but it is not an easy thing to do. It takes the skills of an electrical engineer, and systems level programmer to achieve success. I finally ran across an e-mail with the magic words "Wireless Ethernet Bridge" as the answer. If you are wanting to go wireless on a Linux box or any other non Windoze machine for that matter, and you don't want to go back to college for two more (albeit very useful) degrees, do a Google on "Wireless Ethernet Bridge". Health Tip: Do a Google on "sprouts". Then, don't walk - RUN to your nearest health food store, and get the stuff you need to grow them. Grow them, stick them in your mouth, chew them up and swallow them. Again, I've spent tens of thousands of hours experimenting with a lot of various substances in my life, and this is probably the most intelligent and rewarding thing that I've done in years. Have Fun! Knuke
