Re: Electroniumized Deuterons Low Energy Deuteron Stripping

2006-03-11 Thread Frederick Sparber
For your low energy deuteron stripping question Jones. The P-e-P D reaction is well known, but, if instead a heavier electronium (*e-) participates: P-(*e-)-P (*D) Stripping: (*D) - P + (*n) Then: (*n) (*e-) + P What happens to the D -D Fusion reactions when they change

Re: Record Set for Hottest Temperature on Earth: 3.6 Billion Degrees

2006-03-11 Thread Horace Heffner
On Mar 8, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Mitchell Swartz wrote: Record Set for Hottest Temperature on Earth: 3.6 Billion Degrees in Lab Scientists have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin, or 3.6 billion

Re: Hydrogen from electrolysis versus gasoline

2006-03-11 Thread Horace Heffner
On Mar 10, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Jones Beene wrote: [snip] IOW the GE figure of $3 is apparently a wholesale price to the dealer (comparable to the gasoline wholesale price which is now ~ $1.75). When you use 'just' the energy-cost of $3.39, you are not comparing apples to

Marketplace of ideas

2006-03-11 Thread RC Macaulay
Howdy Vorts, Man's insatiable quest for achievement and stature can convolute science and technology already shot with genius and quackery. Taleyarkhan can be likened to Shakespeare's writing " loved not wisely, but well." Back in WW2, the GI GMC 6x6 2 1/2 ton truck was credited by Patton

Metal-Organic Framework

2006-03-11 Thread hohlrauml6d
MOFs used for hydrogen storage: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11761455/ What's more, only minute amounts of MOFs are needed. A pinch of a MOF, the NSF added, has roughly the surface area of a football field. ___ Try the New Netscape Mail Today!

Re: Electroniumized Deuterons Low Energy Deuteron Stripping

2006-03-11 Thread Jones Beene
Fred, there are many unexplored possibilities assuming the existence of a useful level of electronium (*e) in nature. But let me digress a bit with an excursion into the twilight zone of quantum mechanics. In an ultimate irony - and in an ultimate affront to high priests of the status-quo,

Re: Electroniumized Deuterons Low Energy Deuteron Stripping

2006-03-11 Thread hohlrauml6d
-Original Message- From: Jones Beene Sorry for the digression into the twilight zone - but I'm still trying to figure out what happened last night on the West Coast. I was awakened by what seemed like thunder lasting for 20 seconds in an area where thunder is rarer than earthquakes

Re: Electroniumized Deuterons Low Energy Deuteron Stripping

2006-03-11 Thread hohlrauml6d
-Original Message- From: hohlrauml6d   It was merely Aurora's PDE on it's return flight to Groom Lake after getting the latest MASINT on Iran:    http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/pdwe.html  Siriusly: http://www.pratt-whitney.com/shock-system/pugetsoundbizjournal.html In

Re: Electroniumized Deuterons Low Energy Deuteron Stripping

2006-03-11 Thread Jones Beene
Ha ! I know you meant this as somewhat of a joke, Bob - but ... it may not be that far off. I would say that the frequency of it was around 100 Hz and very constant - unlike anything in nature and no Doppler. Because of McClellan AFB (which would have been the destination) we do get the

Re: Electroniumized Deuterons Low Energy Deuteron Stripping

2006-03-11 Thread hohlrauml6d
-Original Message- From: Jones Beene Ha ! I know you meant this as somewhat of a joke, Bob - but ... it may not be that far off.  Many a truth . . . The parking lot in Palmdale is well populated. g http://www.geocities.com/terry1094/skunkworks.jpg

Re: Hydrogen from biomass versus gasoline

2006-03-11 Thread Frederick Sparber
Dry ash-free non-woody ligno-cellulosic biomass such as leaves, grasses, straws, and cornstalks, about 40% carbon by weight, have an empirical formula C6H10O5 for the cellulose structural portion plus CxHy for the lignin.(cellulose glue or cement) portion). Nature's "reinforced fiber" Acid or

Re: My take on the Taleyarkhan affair

2006-03-11 Thread Edmund Storms
skip Ed Storms was baffled by the brouhaha in the press. He said: Naturally the detected amounts are wrong because the measurements are not sensitive enough to see the expected ratio. What is the advantage to anyone to mix these two phenomenon? As I said, the advantage is that you crush the

Re: Electroniumized Deuterons Low Energy Deuteron Stripping

2006-03-11 Thread Grimer
At 07:44 am 11/03/2006 -0800, Beene wrote: [snip] Sorry for the digression into the twilight zone - but I'm still trying to figure out what happened last night on the West Coast. I was awakened by what seemed like thunder lasting for 20 seconds in an area where thunder is rarer than

Wow... 2good-2b-true

2006-03-11 Thread Jones Beene
Sterling has picked up on a hot little number today http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Resonant_Nuclear_Reactor Resonant Nuclear Reactor - Stimulates U-238 by the use of a resonant electrical circuit. The secondary circuit has a very high Q factor and is used only for stimulating the

Resturant at the End of the Universe (Was: Electroniumized Deuterons . . .)

2006-03-11 Thread hohlrauml6d
-Original Message- From: Grimer It's a precursor warning from the heavens, Jones. 8-) As is this (?): http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060227.html Of course, something like a universe swallowing event could not really be imagined before we imagined the Beta-atmosphere. Now,

Re: Wow... 2good-2b-true

2006-03-11 Thread hohlrauml6d
-Original Message- From: Jones Beene Lets say they are off by an order of magnitude, and you really need 25 kg. How much will that cost?  KEWL! Well, I'll sell it for about $300 per lb: http://unitednuclear.com/super.htm but, I bet you can beat that price. -Lazar

RE: My take on the Taleyarkhan affair

2006-03-11 Thread Keith Nagel
Hi Ed, I think you need to look at it from the university position. There have been some high profile cases of fraud in the sciences, perhaps the most press being devoted to the South Korean cloning scientist but I could name several more if you like. Academia is no different than the corporate

Re: Restaurant at the End of the Universe

2006-03-11 Thread hohlrauml6d
-Original Message- From: hohlrauml6d Title correction. Sorry, I was using the lysdexic dictionary. Terry ___ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com

Re: My take on the Taleyarkhan affair

2006-03-11 Thread Philip Winestone
Everyone is slowly being infected by irrationally by the examples we see in the world in general. That's the main point, and the media, having undertaken to be the intellectual guardians and leaders of public morality and thinking, are leading the pack. Philip. At 10:24 AM 3/11/2006

Re: My take on the Taleyarkhan affair

2006-03-11 Thread Grimer
At 10:24 am 11/03/2006 -0700, Ed wrote: Jed wrote, Here is my take on the situation: Think Zeitgeist. This is the kind of age we live in. This is what science has come to. When people publish experimental results that contradict theory, instead of debating the issues according to logic

Re: Metal-Organic Framework

2006-03-11 Thread Grimer
At 10:22 am 11/03/2006 -0500, Terry wrote: MOFs used for hydrogen storage: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11761455/ What's more, only minute amounts of MOFs are needed. A pinch of a MOF, the NSF added, has roughly the surface area of a football field. Wunderbar - One slight snag though. 8-(

Re: Electroniumized Deuterons Low Energy Deuteron Stripping

2006-03-11 Thread Grimer
At 11:46 am 11/03/2006 -0500, you wrote: -Original Message- From: hohlrauml6d   It was merely Aurora's PDE on it's return flight to Groom Lake after getting the latest MASINT on Iran:    http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/pdwe.html  Siriusly:

Re: Wow... 2good-2b-true

2006-03-11 Thread Grimer
At 09:39 am 11/03/2006 -0800, you wrote: Sterling has picked up on a hot little number today http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Resonant_Nuclear_Reactor Resonant Nuclear Reactor - Stimulates U-238 by the use of a resonant electrical circuit. The secondary circuit has a very high Q factor

Re: My take on the Taleyarkhan affair

2006-03-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Grimer writes: But surely such behaviour is nothing new as Jed must know, since he has read Koestler's The Sleepwalkers. Scientists are just as corrupt as anybody else. The idea that they are some kind of secular religious order pursuing truth is, and always has been, risible. Quite right. It

Re: Wow... 2good-2b-true

2006-03-11 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message - From: Grimer IF this were accurate (doubtful)... It seems to be lighting a bulb. Why do you think it's doubtful? Do you think it's a scam and there's a battery hidden somewhere? That is a possibility, but you do not even need that level of deception. If

Re: My take on the Taleyarkhan affair

2006-03-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Philip Winestone writes: Everyone is slowly being infected by irrationally by the examples we see in the world in general. That's the main point, and the media, having undertaken to be the intellectual guardians and leaders of public morality and thinking, are leading the pack. I do not get

Re: Electroniumized Deuterons Low Energy Deuteron Stripping

2006-03-11 Thread Frederick Sparber
Jones Beene wrote: Fred, there are many unexplored possibilities assuming the existence of a useful level of electronium (*e) in nature. But let me digress a bit with an excursion into the twilight zone of quantum mechanics. Snip the foamy Dirac Sea. As usual even when someone agrees with

Re: My take on the Taleyarkhan affair

2006-03-11 Thread hohlrauml6d
-Original Message- From: Keith Nagel I do not know if Taleyarkhans experiments were successful, but given that we have seen reproduction of the basic effect here on Vo. some years ago ( Knuke... ) I suspect they might be. Former Vort, Ross Tessien, predicts breakeven by 2010:

Science exposes Hot Fusion weaknesses: March 11, 2006

2006-03-11 Thread Steven Krivit
Who has ever seen a major science journal expose the flaws of hot fusion in such a straightforward and raw manner? Is this as new as it appears to me? If you are interested, I'll send you the article. Steve

Re: Wow... 2good-2b-true

2006-03-11 Thread Michael Foster
Jones wrote: If your throw the switch off and let the caps charge for several days (they will slowly charge) ... and then get the camera ready and flip the switch, you can probably get the bulb to stay lit long enough to get a convincing image. Despite my natural level of skepticism, I

Re: Wow... 2good-2b-true

2006-03-11 Thread Jones Beene
Michael, For the record, let me say that I am not suggesting fraud or anything like that - only that this seems most improbable - since the ouput is at the energy density of a fission reactor. All true, except that as I understand how this is supposed to work, the beta decay releases large

Re: Resturant at the End of the Universe (Was: Electroniumized Deuterons . . .)

2006-03-11 Thread Grimer
At 12:49 pm 11/03/2006 -0500, you wrote: -Original Message- From: Grimer It's a precursor warning from the heavens, Jones. 8-) As is this (?): http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060227.html Of course, something like a universe swallowing event could not really be imagined before

Re: Re; A Seasoned Scientist on Controlled Fusion

2006-03-11 Thread Steven Krivit
Uh, Fred, we need to talk Maybe you already know what I want. ;) s At 06:11 AM 3/9/2006, you wrote: I quote: --- I am not sure that I have ever mentioned it to you, but controlled fusion has been a real problem with me for

Re: Wow... 2good-2b-true

2006-03-11 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sat, 11 Mar 2006 12:46:14 -0800: Hi, [snip] All true, except that as I understand how this is supposed to work, the beta decay releases large amounts of energy as magnetic flux. But where is the beta emitter? The fuel in this one is natural uranium, an

Re: Electroniumized Deuterons Low Energy Deuteron Stripping

2006-03-11 Thread hohlrauml6d
-Original Message- From: Grimer How does this differ from the pulse engines that powered the V1's, one of which nearly de-parted me off from the happiest days of my life (allegedly)? Good observation. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_detonation_engine The main difference

Re: Wow... 2good-2b-true

2006-03-11 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Robin van Spaandonk's message of Sun, 12 Mar 2006 12:15:17 +1100: Hi, [snip] BTW if you want to try this, you should be able to use the Am241 from a smoke detector. 1 micro-Curie of Am241 contains about 2400 J, which should light a 20 W bulb for about 2 minutes (less once losses are

Re: Idiopathic Thermogenesis, Electronium Potassium-40?

2006-03-11 Thread Frederick Sparber
Spontaneous Human Combustion,SHC. Random K40 concentration? SCC Spontaneous Chicken Combustion. In Kervran's Chickens? http://www.journaloftheoretics.com/Articles/1-3/IT-final.html "This accumulation of radioactive isotopes within the cell serves as a basic component of radiogenic metabolism

Economic Near Miss

2006-03-11 Thread hohlrauml6d
Had this attack been successful, $10 per gallon would have been a bargain: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/03/AR2006030 302046.html http://tinyurl.com/n6xwb Terry ___ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually

Re: Science exposes Hot Fusion weaknesses: March 11, 2006

2006-03-11 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Steven Krivit's message of Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:18:52 -0800: Hi, [snip] I quote:- This is a volume of 3400 m3, which, at an average density of about 3 g/cm3,would weigh 10,000 metric tons. A conservative cost would be ~$180/kg, for a total blanket-shield cost of $1.8 billion. This

DON'T PANIC, okay go ahead . . .

2006-03-11 Thread hohlrauml6d
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0222-27.htm Hotter, Faster, Worser by John Atcheson Over the past several months, the normally restrained voice of science has taken on a distinct note of panic when it comes to global warming. How did we go from debating the uncertainty behind climate

Re: My take on the Taleyarkhan affair

2006-03-11 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:18:55 -0800: Hi, [snip] Hot fusion? Brian Ahern told me this: I certainly do not believe the thermally based sonofusion claims because I understand a term called (thermal diffusivity). It is physically impossible to generate the

Re: NEW ENERGY TIMES (tm) MARCH 10, 2006 -- Issue #15

2006-03-11 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:10:40 -0800: Hi, [snip] An excellent background article on this current situation, which is relevant to Mills/BLP and the sad state of Science Journalism in Nature compounded by the 'me-too' antics of the NYT appears at:

Re: Economic Near Miss

2006-03-11 Thread Steven Krivit
http://newenergytimes.com/Inthenews/2006/SuicideBombers.htm At 07:32 PM 3/11/2006, you wrote: Had this attack been successful, $10 per gallon would have been a bargain: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/03/AR2006030 302046.html http://tinyurl.com/n6xwb Terry