Re: [Vo]:More about the Russian superbomb

2009-07-04 Thread Horace Heffner
Many days I can't even get things right on the second try. I wrote: "I expect the gradient within the cathode can be made over 100 times that 0.02 T/cm^2, using even permanent magnets, in experiments designed to meet that objective." That should be: "I expect the gradient within the cathode

Re: [Vo]:More about the Russian superbomb

2009-07-04 Thread Horace Heffner
On Jul 3, 2009, at 8:06 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: ...but wouldn't that gradient need to exist between the particle and the nucleus? I wrote: "Any hydrogen in a fully loaded lattice is surrounded by atoms in all quadrants. Further, even as charged particles, hydrogen can readily tun

Re: [Vo]:More about the Russian superbomb

2009-07-04 Thread Horace Heffner
On Jul 3, 2009, at 8:06 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Fri, 3 Jul 2009 17:29:26 -0800: Hi, [snip] However, 1 g of hydrogen unexpectedly set off in lattice by the volume effect of polarized x-rays Where does this come from? My fertile imagination. 8

Re: [Vo]:More about the Russian superbomb

2009-07-03 Thread mixent
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Fri, 3 Jul 2009 17:29:26 -0800: Hi, [snip] >>> However, 1 g of hydrogen unexpectedly set off in lattice by the >>> volume effect of polarized x-rays >> >> Where does this come from? > >My fertile imagination. 8^) > >It comes from the concept that deflated hy

Re: [Vo]:More about the Russian superbomb

2009-07-03 Thread Horace Heffner
On Jul 3, 2009, at 4:04 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Fri, 3 Jul 2009 02:15:28 -0800: Hi Horace, [snip] However, 1 g of hydrogen unexpectedly set off in lattice by the volume effect of polarized x-rays Where does this come from? My fertile imagina

Re: [Vo]:More about the Russian superbomb

2009-07-03 Thread mixent
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Fri, 3 Jul 2009 02:15:28 -0800: Hi Horace, [snip] >However, 1 g of hydrogen unexpectedly set off in lattice by the >volume effect of polarized x-rays Where does this come from? >would produce a 0.138 kT TNT >equivalent explosion. That might be pause

Re: [Vo]:More about the Russian superbomb

2009-07-03 Thread Horace Heffner
On Jul 1, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Regarding the Russian superbomb: http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html It produced 50 MT which works out to be . . . 209,000,000 MJ (I think -- 210 PJ) The 209,000,000 above should be 290,000,000,000 I think, but the rest is

Re: [Vo]:More about the Russian superbomb

2009-07-02 Thread OrionWorks
>From Jed: > Regarding the Russian superbomb: > > http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html > > It produced 50 MT which works out to be . . . > > 209,000,000 MJ (I think -- 210 PJ) > > Equivalent to 5 billion kg of gasoline or 1.6 billion gallons. > > The U.S. consumes 390 million gall

[Vo]:More about the Russian superbomb

2009-07-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
Regarding the Russian superbomb: http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html It produced 50 MT which works out to be . . . 209,000,000 MJ (I think -- 210 PJ) Equivalent to 5 billion kg of gasoline or 1.6 billion gallons. The U.S. consumes 390 million gallons of gasoline per day, so