[Vo]:What do you think about the SPARC?

2021-09-22 Thread Frank Znidarsic
https://news.mit.edu/2021/MIT-CFS-major-advance-toward-fusion-energy-0908

Re: [Vo]:what do you think of Goodenouh's self charging batterY?

2020-07-20 Thread Jones Beene
Ron Kita wrote:
> Electrets my specialty. 

Hey Ron, 

Let me throw this idea out for you. Have you considered the implications of 
dense hydrogen as it might apply to being integrated into the structure of an 
electret ? 

IOW - if and when someone invents the process to make dense hydrogen very 
cheaply (and why not?) then imagine this species being impregnated into say a 
polymer film in such a way that many of the electrons presented in a far more 
compact state than normal and yet stable,,, such a material would most likely 
make a very special electret. This assumes (using theory via either Mills or 
Holmlid et al) the charge properties of the dense state are modified or 
enhanced by inverse square and so on 

- well, such am electret film should have amazing electrical and magnetic 
properties. This idea may have been tossed around before ...?





Re: [Vo]:what do you think of Goodenouh's self charging batterY?

2020-07-19 Thread Ron Kita
Electrets my specialty. I was a friend of the late Boyd Bushman ,
dec...ex-Senior Scientist at LockMart DFW. His
Energy Source patent was an electret. I used to phone Boyd until he moved
to Arizona...where he died a few years
later. I asked Boyd did you ever weigh your electrets...his reply..NO! and
we laughed.  Respectfully, Ron Kita, Chiralex, Doylestown PA
http://www.chiralex.com


On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 8:32 PM JonesBeene  wrote:

> *From: *Vibrator ! 
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> JG = James Glimm?  Sorry lost me there..
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Goodenough
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> looks like it will be his birthday next week.  Think about that – 98 and
> still on the cutting edge of battery technology.
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> Maybe another big prize … who knows?.
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RE: [Vo]:what do you think of Goodenouh's self charging batterY?

2020-07-18 Thread Vibrator !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Goodenough

Doh!  Miles away..  (besides, could've had Josiah Gibbs)..


RE: [Vo]:what do you think of Goodenouh's self charging batterY?

2020-07-18 Thread JonesBeene
From: Vibrator !

JG = James Glimm?  Sorry lost me there.. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Goodenough

looks like it will be his birthday next week.  Think about that – 98 and still 
on the cutting edge of battery technology.

Maybe another big prize … who knows?.



RE: [Vo]:what do you think of Goodenouh's self charging batterY?

2020-07-18 Thread Vibrator !
'Electret' - that was the word - but yep, something a bit different here..
 albeit still amenable to calorimetry i should think.

"Quote: A subthreshold swing is demonstrated below the thermal limit in an
electrochemical cell that mimics a gate-to-channel circuit cell in a FeFET,
surpassing the limit imposed by dissipation energy, often designated as
“Boltzmann tyranny.”"

..implying that the energy distribution of the source electrons is somewhat
passive, lacking the high-energy tail / hot electron leakage limiting FET
efficiency, ie. more circumvention than violation..

JG = James Glimm?  Sorry lost me there..


Re: [Vo]:what do you think of Goodenouh's self charging batterY?

2020-07-17 Thread Terry Blanton
Personally, I don't think it's good enough.

Really, I think it's a long way from producibility.

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RE: [Vo]:what do you think of Goodenouh's self charging batterY?

2020-07-17 Thread bobcook39...@hotmail.com

If the charge is drained off does the system  recharge?  I could mot see that 
clearly stated.  It seemed as if there was a swapping of potential energy 
between two phases of the system.

The entropy of the two phases would have the same minimum value in their 
respective charged phases, if the 2nd Law of TH held.

To make up any lost potential energy in the phase changes, the system may have 
gained energy from the earth’s magnetic field during realignment of magnetic 
dipoles that change direction during the phase change,  releasing electrons to 
change their quasi-stable locations in the system’s respective  materials.

As Vibrator notes, there must be a undefined source of energy—maybe ZPE or the 
Earth’s magnetic field.

Bob Cook




From: Frank Znidarsic<mailto:fznidar...@aol.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2020 9:04 PM
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com<mailto:vortex-l@eskimo.com>
Subject: [Vo]:what do you think of Goodenouh's self charging batterY?

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5132841




RE: [Vo]:what do you think of Goodenouh's self charging batterY?

2020-07-17 Thread JonesBeene
Ah … another almost useless violation - it appears… but maybe not completely 
useless.

There does appear to be a nominal violation – somewhat reminiscent of  an 
electret. I’m surprised they do not go there. 

Because the self-cycling takes place at extremely low frequencies and does not 
produce any effect when discharges are fast, as would be needed in a working 
capacitor or transistor - the actual applications for it seem to be small – 
other than there is the implication of very high efficiency - but not a real 
demonstration of it.

There could be a useful temperature drop with the self-oscillation as well, 
which may explain the net energy balance.

Quote: A subthreshold swing is demonstrated below the thermal limit in an 
electrochemical cell that mimics a gate-to-channel circuit cell in a FeFET, 
surpassing the limit imposed by dissipation energy,
often designated as “Boltzmann tyranny.”

Poor Boltzmann … he gets no respect …

Amazing that JG is approaching 100 years. In fact he is the anomaly if there is 
one.


From: Vibrator !

If self-oscillation is phonon-driven - and also forms the source gradient - 
then it's an effective 2LoT violation.

Doesn't rule out an EM / ZPE source of course, but Occam would suggest that's 
redundant..

So, unlike Steorn's ferro-electric caps or whatever it was they were doing 
(foggy now)..



[Vo]:what do you think of Goodenouh's self charging batterY?

2020-07-16 Thread Vibrator !
If self-oscillation is phonon-driven - and also forms the source gradient -
then it's an effective 2LoT violation.

Doesn't rule out an EM / ZPE source of course, but Occam would suggest
that's redundant..

So, unlike Steorn's ferro-electric caps or whatever it was they were doing
(foggy now)..


[Vo]:what do you think of Goodenouh's self charging batterY?

2020-07-12 Thread Frank Znidarsic
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5132841

[Vo]:what do you think of this

2016-01-08 Thread Frank Znidarsic
http://pro.moneymappress.com/EADSLR3979/PEADS110/?iris=451746=true

Re: [Vo]:what do you think of this

2016-01-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Do not open!

This looks like another spam virus.


[Vo]:What do . . .

2014-02-20 Thread Terry Blanton
BLP and Tesla Motors have in common?



RE: [Vo]:What do . . .

2014-02-20 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message-
From: Terry Blanton 

BLP and Tesla Motors have in common?


Hmmm... I was looking for a Board member in common. Does not seem to be the
case. What I found was that three of BLP's prestigious former Board members,
including Michael Jordan, former CEO of Westinghouse, seem to have jumped
ship... haven't checked to see if their departure was of a more permanent
nature, so to speak...




Re: [Vo]:What do . . .

2014-02-20 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote:
 Hmmm... I was looking for a Board member in common.

A Tesla has a great grid leveling device on board.  A power source,
constant or transient, could make for a autonomous vehicle.

Of course, it's a fruity idea, eh?



Re: [Vo]:What do . . .

2014-02-20 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote:
 Hmmm... I was looking for a Board member in common.

 A Tesla has a great grid leveling device on board.  A power source,
 constant or transient, could make for a autonomous vehicle.

 Of course, it's a fruity idea, eh?

Don't need no driver, don't need no plugs, jes get in an go.



Re: [Vo]:what do ypu think of this within the latest wave of UFO and the History Channel show

2011-08-26 Thread Jed Rothwell
I have a low regard for the History Channel. I have seen documentaries
there occasionally. When they are about a subject I know well, even one that
is well documented such as the Battle of Midway, I have seen that they are
filled with mistakes. They are written by people who know nothing about the
subject. The production values are sloppy. In the Midway documentary, the
voice-over announcers had no idea how to pronounce Japanese words, and they
don't bother asking anyone.

They resemble Wikipedia. Perhaps Wikipedia is the source of recent ones,
come to think of it.

- Jed


Re: [Vo]:what do ypu think of this within the latest wave of UFO and the History Channel show

2011-08-26 Thread fznidarsic

You are once again correct Jed.  I looked at the recent wave of UFO's, some 
look like clouds, some look like reflections off of a window,  some are flairs, 
reentering space junk, or gas off of reentering space junk. The one I linked to 
appears to be fake as stated in the comments.   I saw a UFO many years ago in 
PA.  It was called the Kecksburg Incident.  It looked like burring up piece of 
reentering space junk.  I saw another about 15 years ago during a lunar 
eclipse.  It proved to be a reentering booster from a Japan space launch.  It 
gave off gas and looked much bigger than it was.

Others have made much more of these incidents.  They don''t care that they are 
wrong.  There stories just keep getting bigger.  I will watch the History 
Channel special for the fun of it.  NASA recently said the global CO2 may 
attracted aliens.  Perhaps someone knows something that I don't.

One thing I have noted about UFO sightings  is that they are firmly rooted in 
the technology past. All of the craft have a pilot as would a WW2 plane.  Our 
most advanced probes are robotic.  We are now planning for carrier launched 
robot planes.  The little UFO craft with creatures controlling it is firmly 
rooted in the technology of the past.  Organic creatures, if they ever go 
intersteller, are going one way to a place fully explored by robots.



Frank Z






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To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com
Sent: Fri, Aug 26, 2011 9:10 pm
Subject: Re: [Vo]:what do ypu think of this within the latest wave of UFO and 
the History Channel show


I have a low regard for the History Channel. I have seen documentaries there 
occasionally. When they are about a subject I know well, even one that is well 
documented such as the Battle of Midway, I have seen that they are filled with 
mistakes. They are written by people who know nothing about the subject. The 
production values are sloppy. In the Midway documentary, the voice-over 
announcers had no idea how to pronounce Japanese words, and they don't bother 
asking anyone. 


They resemble Wikipedia. Perhaps Wikipedia is the source of recent ones, come 
to think of it. 


- Jed





[Vo]:What do the Eartchtech CR-39 results show?

2009-10-27 Thread Michel Jullian
What they demonstrate, IMHO, is that the SPAWAR pits occur:

1/ when the deposit is dendritic, not when it is spongy, and

2/ when the CR-39 chip is in direct contact with the cathode wire, not
when a 6 micron mylar is interposed

Result 2/ does NOT prove conclusively IMHO that any alpha particles
produced are less energetic than the ~1MeV needed to go through 6µm of
mylar as they suggest, another possibility that occurs to me is that
the material in direct contact with the cathode wire matters, i.e.
that CR-39 induces a nuclear effect and mylar doesn't. Has this
possibility been considered?

Michel


2009/10/27 Michel Jullian michelj...@gmail.com
...
  http://www.earthtech.org/CR39/index.html

 I don't know if he has read them but I pointed Abd to the Earthtech
 results too, very early on. Not because they disprove the nuclear
 origin of the SPAWAR pits, which they don't
...



Re: [Vo]:What do the Eartchtech CR-39 results show?

2009-10-27 Thread Horace Heffner


On Oct 27, 2009, at 3:19 AM, Michel Jullian wrote:


What they demonstrate, IMHO, is that the SPAWAR pits occur:

1/ when the deposit is dendritic, not when it is spongy, and


Which, in view of large etching effects from minor scratching, places  
into serious question any results in the presences of dendritic  
growth adjacent to the CR39.




2/ when the CR-39 chip is in direct contact with the cathode wire, not
when a 6 micron mylar is interposed


Both the large and small SPAWAR pits (possibly due to alphas and  
protons) *do* (in other SPAWAR experiments) occur when 6 micron mylar  
is present, just not in the same quantities or proportions, and  
obviously not using the same protocol.





Result 2/ does NOT prove conclusively IMHO that any alpha particles
produced are less energetic than the ~1MeV needed to go through 6µm of
mylar as they suggest,


Their conclusion is: Our results do not provide a positive  
identification of the origin of SPAWAR pits.  However, they do show  
that chemical origin is a distinct possibility and therefore that  
nuclear origin is not a certainty. The accelerated etching rate  
observed for CR-39 that has soaked in TGP electrolyte for several  
weeks proves that there is a chemical interaction.  The observation  
that SPAWAR pits are visible before etching shows that they are  
unlike the tracks made by ionizing particles.  The observation that  
SPAWAR pits are stopped by a 6 micron Mylar film is consistent with a  
chemical origin but only proves that they cannot be due to nuclear  
particles which would penetrate such a barrier (e.g. alpha particles  
of energy 1 MeV).  The rest of our observations, such as the  
invariance of the result when the electrolyte is changed from heavy  
water to light water, are less conclusive but are still consistent  
with chemical origin of SPAWAR pits.
It has been suggested that SPAWAR pits are a mixture of chemical and  
nuclear pits.  This is a difficult hypothesis to evaluate.  Frankly,  
the idea of trying to identify pits which look nuclear is not very  
appealing from an objectivity standpoint.


This conclusion is clearly valid for the *Earthtech experiment*, and  
possibly for the Galileo protocol, but obviously not valid for the  
range of all such experiments, since there is a wide range of results  
depending on conditions.  It would have of course been better if the  
conclusions were more highly qualified, especially in view of later  
results, but it doesn't take a lot of interpretation to understand them.


What the Earthech results do show beyond any reasonable doubt is is  
the Galileo protocol is highly flawed and the results are far from  
convincing. They also show it is nonsensical to expose the CR-39 to  
the electrolyte, because the results are then not reliable.


As I'm sure you know, determination of the nature of particles from  
CR-39 tracks is a difficult, and one that can depend on computer  
simulations of track shapes over different etching periods. It  
depends on a reliable etching rate, and knowing etching rates as a  
function of temperature.






another possibility that occurs to me is that
the material in direct contact with the cathode wire matters, i.e.
that CR-39 induces a nuclear effect and mylar doesn't. Has this
possibility been considered?

Michel


Could be examined by placing a 6 mil mylar cover over the mylar chip  
for a control.  It would indeed be strange if a difference were  
found, because they are both composed of only H, C, and O.  Mylar is  
PET (C10H8O4). See


http://tinyurl.com/yp6ld5

for chemical structure of CR-39.  The primary effect would be one due  
to density I would think, and thus possibly related to neutron  
moderation or thermalization, knock on proton creation, carbon  
reactions, etc.






2009/10/27 Michel Jullian michelj...@gmail.com
...

http://www.earthtech.org/CR39/index.html


I don't know if he has read them but I pointed Abd to the Earthtech
results too, very early on. Not because they disprove the nuclear
origin of the SPAWAR pits, which they don't

...


I don't think anyone said the Earthtech results disprove the nuclear  
origin of the SPAWAR pits.  This is a strawman argument.


What they did prove is that placing CR39 in the electrolyte  
dramatically changes the etching rate, and thus presumably the track  
making characteristics, with depth, and the effect by depth varies  
with time of exposure.  They also demonstrated chemically produced  
tracks.



Here are some prior comments that relate to some of the above  
discussion:



On Jun 18, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Horace Heffner wrote:



It may be possible to gain some discriminatory information of  
particle type by depositing very thin layers of materials on a  
CR-39 detector, and then removing them prior to NaOH etching.
This would tell something about the ballistic collision cross  
section of the particles with the thin layer chosen, and, if recoil  
interaction with the layer is 

Re: [Vo]:What do the Eartchtech CR-39 results show?

2009-10-27 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax

At 07:19 AM 10/27/2009, Michel Jullian wrote:

What they demonstrate, IMHO, is that the SPAWAR pits occur:

1/ when the deposit is dendritic, not when it is spongy, and

2/ when the CR-39 chip is in direct contact with the cathode wire, not
when a 6 micron mylar is interposed

Result 2/ does NOT prove conclusively IMHO that any alpha particles
produced are less energetic than the ~1MeV needed to go through 6µm of
mylar as they suggest, another possibility that occurs to me is that
the material in direct contact with the cathode wire matters, i.e.
that CR-39 induces a nuclear effect and mylar doesn't. Has this
possibility been considered?


While that seems possible, there is a simpler 
explanation of the Earthtech results. Perhaps 
because I overlooked these result in my reading, 
I think I may have noticed the page early on but 
didn't have enough background to understand the 
issues, but I did read that today, don't quite 
know why I missed Horace's mention of it before, 
but sometimes I don't have time to follow up on 
something and then it joins the rest of the 
mountain of stuff that I'd like to do but 
probably never will. Unless someone brings it up again.


Please, folks, if it seems like I should read 
something so that I stop sticking my foot so 
clearly into my mouth, let me know! If I've 
answered with an answer that shows I read it with 
some reasonable level of understanding, fine. 
However, it never hurts to have some redundant 
communication, I will never blame someone for 
patiently trying to get something through my 
thick skull. Even if they are wrong, in my opinion. A for effort!


Now, as to the simpler explanation. They did not 
follow the protocol exactly, or if they did, it's 
a different protocol, which is a bit irritating, 
for sure, if that's true. The Galileo project was 
semi-confidential, the protocol originally was 
not revealed openly, one had to sign a release in 
case the thing took out the family home or you 
ended up with hot NaOH in your face, a distinctly 
unpleasant possibility. No, I don't have a 
chem-shower, as they recommend, at home, but, 
strangely enough, there is one in the warehouse 
for my wife's business that I've taken over, it 
used to be a microbiology lab. But that's ten 
minutes drive from my home, and I'll be spending 
very little time over a hot stove etching chips, 
I believe, so I can take lesser measures.


For whatever reason, they didn't get the nuclear 
effect, at all. Instead, they got a strong 
chemical damage effect on the chips. The pits 
that they report as SPAWAR pits aren't. They 
are chemical damage plus background radiation -- these were 4-year-old chips.


I don't blame them. Early available SPAWAR 
results showed hamburger and rather breathlessly 
considered it radiation damage. Maybe it was, by 
the way, there are still some differences 
visible. Obviously, though, chemical damage must 
be considered, from their results. These may 
actually be nice control experiments, it would be 
great if the critical variable were identified.


Here is another clue: they reported no results 
with mylar covering the chips, SPAWAR reported 
reduced results. Reduced results is consistent 
with alpha radiation, no results is not -- unless 
the radiation is below a certain energy.


Note that most alpha radiation reaching the CR-39 
from the cathode will come in at high incidence. 
If it were lower incidence, it would have a 
longer path to the surface, and would be less 
likely to have sufficient energy left to be 
detected. That would not be true if the CR-39 is 
very close to the wire, but if that area is 
subject to the hamburger effect, an elliptical track won't be visible.


The real key is the radiation on the back, but, 
unfortunately, they were using a silver cathode, 
which apparently has the worst back-side results, 
perhaps even zero. Why, unknown. But for a gold 
electrode, SPAWAR reports copious back-side 
tracks, no hamburger, and only behind the gold 
electrode, less behind the platinum, and 
practically none behind the silver. Obviously not 
background radiation, hard to conceive of that 
selectivity being chemical damage. I'm also 
worried that they had damage to the cell, I don't 
like that at all, because it indicates 
interaction between the electrolyte and the cell 
material. Did they use the exact boxes specified 
by Galileo, or did they think that something else 
they had already purchased would be good enough. 
Even if it was acrylic, not all acrylic may be the same.


And why did they use half the amount of PdCl2 that the protocol specified?