Re: Are Fluorescent light Bulbs OU ?

[Jones Beene]

Vortex is known to be "forward thinking"... most of the time.   This particular thread from last month about "Fluorescent light Bulb OU" appears with a new twist this weekend on Slashdot, which picked up this MSNBC story on the fluorescent light that continues to glow for over an hour after it is turned-off...   Guess you would call it ..."light after death" .... ;-) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8825455/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Frederick Sparber Mark Jordan wrote: > >  Here is a copy/paste of a related message from the freenrg-l list: > >  You might also be interested in knowing about the Imris' circuit > (US patent #3,781,601): > >   http://tinyurl.com/9fc9f  > Thanks, Mark. A single tube 4 foot - 40 watt fluorescent  shop light  with electronic ballast runs about $20.00 at Lowes. These are probably operating between 40 to 60 KHz which allows plenty of time for the atoms/molecules to collide at the estimated 1,000 meter/sec Argon (6.64E-26 kg) and 500 meter/sec Mercury  (3.32E-25 kg) velocities (based on a 3000 K gas temperature. According to this collision calculator for Argon-Mercury or H2 (3.32E-27 kg) -Argon etc., the Argon atom can gain a 50% increase in velocity from an elastic collision with a Mercury atom rebounding from a wall collision at   - 500 meter/second. If I didn't goof this would mean a 50% OU "kinetic energy" gain? http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/colsta.html#c4 Not much advantage in going to Hydrogen-Mercury (3000 K H2  v = 5000 meter/sec) but this doesn't square with the Double Ball Drop thing: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/doubal.html " If a light ball like a ping-pong ball is dropped along with a heavy ball like a large superball, the small ball rebounds with a remarkably high velocity, theoretically approaching three times the velocity with which the balls strike the surface. The analysis involves the nature of head-on elastic collisions and in particular the case of a light projectile hitting a heavy target. Slingshot orbits used in space exploration have features in common with this situation even though the objects involved never touch each other." I probably ain't got my vectors added right.  :-) Frederick