Oh, yes they can burn ... (sez the argumentative mindreader)
Of all the "easy" (on paper) hypothetical schemes for harnessing natural
energy sources, and without combustion, CO2 and without lingering
radiation or toxic ash, none of them 'sounds' simpler than converting
the mass of the electron directly into energy.
Never-mind that to be most useful, the heat energy which is produced (as
photon radiation) would then need to be converted back to electricity.
Free electrons are everywhere, and positronium - the required antimatter
needed to do this, is just as ubiquitous as electrons, but normally
resides in another spatial dimension - the Dirac epo field.
For convenience, some theorists identify this spatial fractal, i.e. the
space or 'sea' where positronium is found, with Dirac's concept of
"reciprocal" space, even though it is far from clear that the two are
mathematically identical. But of all the important thinkers of the past,
none, including Einstein, is Dirac's equal... and consequently - his
work is constantly being reinterpreted in a more modern context.
Of course, if any 'gateway' or interface can be found where reciprocal
space and 3-space are reliably contiguous, then the possibility of
'burning electrons' moves out of SciFi and into HiFiSci (high fidelity
science - or full-replication of results).
As of now, theorists will admit that there does exist a "quantum foam"
of virtual positronium, which remains "just out of reach" to us in
normal circumstances, although it can explain many energy anomalies
which crop up from time to time.
This paper below offers an intriguing possibility towards finding a very
precise gateway to the interface of 3-space with reciprocal space:
"High-Resolution Observation of the Solar Positron-Electron Annihilation
Line" G.H. Share, et al.
ABSTRACT A solar satellite has observed the positron-electron
annihilation line at 511 keV produced during solar flares. The shape of
the line is consistent with annihilation in two vastly different solar
environments. One of those can be produced by formation of positronium
by charge exchange, in flight with hydrogen in a quiet solar atmosphere
at a temperature of ~6000 K.
Now the blackbody curve for 6000 K can be seen here:
http://staff.imsa.edu/science/geophysics/atmosphere/energy/6000k.html
It is the well-know spectrum which is often called "natural daylight".
This is a region that is above the range of combustion but reachable on
earth with concentrated solar light, using parabolic mirrors and with
semiconductor lasers. The new GaN blue laser for DVDs is very close to
what is needed.
[side note] There could be some relevance here to the Letts/Cravens
effect, even though that laser emits in the IR range, if memory serves.
My advice to anyone attempting a L/C replication - use a laser that
emits near 483 nm. From Wien's Displacement law, λ = 2.898 mm·K / 6000 K
= 483 nm. It would not be surprising if the permissible range for
getting deuterium to Ps is as narrow as a few nm in either direction.
Blue lasers usually operate at around 472 nanometers. Hopefully that is
close enough.
The only problem with applying a precise temperature to an experiment,
is that the gravity field of the sun is probably (almost surely) a part
of this particular gateway (if one does in fact exist)...
... that being a gateway to the spatial interface where Ps can interact
with e- : IOW the space where positronium can somehow accompany hydrogen
into 3-space and interact. This is also an alternative explanation (to
Mills' CQM) to the surprising amount of energy seen in the solar corona.
Can that enormous gravity field of the sun be approximated on earth with
a magnetic field? If so, perhaps a glimmer of this would have already
been witnessed in a tokamak at 6000 K.
Only problem there is - first you have to look carefully for it... or at
least to document any spike anomaly that occurs in the warmup of a
tokamak, when the ion reaches 6000 K. Has this been seen? Dunno.
Or ... is the anomalous energy which had been produced in the following
experiment related to this source? That is: is the "burning electrons"
hypothesis, as an alternative (or co-equal) explanation to the
hypothesis which it is being promoted:
http://users.rowan.edu/~marchese/final-niac.pdf
Jones
BTW the 511 keV photon is said to be the one and only relic of the
"burn" or annihilation event: the production of oppositely directed
photons of this exact value (which are then easily downshifted, as this
spectrum is absorbed by other particles in the vicinity).
The electron's lepton existence, as particles of a rotational class is
terminated and converted. There are two different processes involved in
this reaction: the opposite charges cancel each other, leaving both
particles in the (nominally) uncharged condition, as photons. Also - the
mutual spin combines to 0-0-0, which is no effective rotation at all.
