----- Original Message ----- From: "Jones Beene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "vortex" <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 9:48 PM Subject: Explantion for some caviation OU
> Thinking about Knuke's recent post, and the anomaly he experienced > with unfortunate long-term health risks, I believe that I have an > answer now and it does not involved neutrons, proliferation risks, > nor the increased possibility of terrorism, as some of us > feared... nor necessarily hydrinos - but instead a prevalent > common household toxic gas- to wit: radon. Although radon is > technically a gas, it is so heavy and active that it sticks like > glue to many surface-charged dielectrics. > > The mechanism is as follows: Radon and other volatile radioactive > species diffuse from the ground due to the natural decay of > uranium and/or thorium which are ubiquitous in shale, granite and > coal - or in the older ceramic tiles which were once used as a > glaze (fired unrefined "yellow cake") which as Knuke mentioned, > was prized for its color and was fairly common in ceramics before > being removed from the marker (but not all kitchens). Surface > shale is also ubiquitous in parts of Russia, where the these > devices are said to work well. > > Soils with high levels of shale, granite, or where phosphate > fertilizers are used can be radioactive (1-1000 or more ppm of > actinides or 40K) but this won't necessarily be picked up by the > standard CD GM detectors - plus- in the decay chain, the volatile > species (aka "daughters"): isotopes of radon, xenon, polonium etc. > have half life of maybe 10^10 times or more shorter than the U or > Th. These will show up on any good lab rad-monitor, except the > common CD variety which were made for wartime post-catastrophe > use. When concentrated, even your civilian-defense monitor will > pick it up. > > The answer to the Knuke-anomaly likely involves the concentration > of radon and daughters on the surface of the tiles, possible from > both the tile itself and the local soil degassing, and then the > decay of these being accelerated in the cavitator. If you do not > believe that this can take place, take a tissue and wipe your > computer screen and then test with a sensitive meter. I tried this with my CDV-700 which gives one click every five to ten seconds as background. After wiping a 21 in monitor and a TV screen with the tissue, I got no change. This seems pecular since I know that there are houses within 12 mi with radon problems and mineable grade of U within 20 mi. I still don't understand how Knuke got such a massive dose of radion in only five sec! Do you know if there was any residual contamination of his turbine parts detectable after the incident? You should > get a surprisingly high reading, and you can multiply this by the > surface area of the tiles in question and the time between tile > cleanups, which in Knuke's case, may have been.... well, people > who live in glass houses should not hurl housecleaning > contumelies, so to speak > > And all you need to do to accelerated decay is to charge the stuff > in a van de Graff. Don't bother to quote me the normal textbook > garbage about accelerated decay being impossible, as anyone can > demonstrate it so easily that it is now considered by most to > have been planned disinformation, and a relic of the cold war era. > > Another related test which can be used to pinpoint the elemental > source of radioactivity can be found online - as well as the > important decay-curve files. The test involves measuring the rate > against the background, and then logging over time with > datalogging software. The concentration of radon daughters on > computer screens is caused by electrostatic attraction, and wiping > the screen will concentrate this even more so that you can get > several hundred CPM, and with the time-decay-curve you can find > what isotopes are involved due to the short half-life, and you > have almost proof-positive the radon source. There used to be > tables for this process and instructions on the "Aware" site: > http://www.aw-el.com/ > This is not an expensive meter, folks, and every garage > experimenter should have this or better. My old one is a slightly > better French Oritech model but it is small (smaller than a > 'mouse'), inexpensive, accurate and reliable, and if you have an > unused laptop, then you have data-logging built-in and can save > about $10,000 over new lab equipment- which might have some added > bells-and-whistles, but negative economic value. > > With the "legal" sources of radiation, which means thoriated, you > should get readings of around 300-600 uR/hr for welding rods > whereas the background rate is typically 10 uR/hr. A "hot" [i.e. > not recently cleaned, computer screen may have up to 100 uR/hr or > 10 times background, so your grandmother was correct that watching > TV too close-up will make you go blind] I suspect that the sum > total of Knuke's tiles was in the thousands and then the rate > accelerated by cavitation, so he got a dose that may cause long > term problems, hopefully not. > > As radon decays, it becomes charged by its own alpha emission. The > charged atom will attach to small airborne particles called Aiken > particles. The particle then assumes the charge of the radon > daughter, usually negative, as it already shed an alpha. Aiken > particles become attached to many dielectrics, and especially > those with an induced positive surface charge (cause by alphas > migrating to the surface of the tiles. Your cat is probably > purring contentedly because of this, and with a lifetime of less > than 20 years, no problemo, as it is a slow-developing cancer... > > Radon is found in many unsuspecting locations, especially > basements in "coal country," and in natural gas...and especially > in the nation's Capitol in Washington D.C. (because of all the > beautiful pink granite). > > A quantum of slow poetic justice for those bagmen, thanks to all > that hard-rock, I'd say. > > Jones > >
