Jones, I respect you too, but also disagree, :-)
> Real fusion cannot occur without > substantial gamma radiation What a nonsense is that? If you mean with real, "established", then ok. I think there is no principal reason for gamma and neutron radiation in all fusion reactions (there is in plasma D-D fusion). There are reactions thinkable that do comply with conservation laws for energy/mass/momentum yet emit their energy in the form of phonons (lattice vibrations) and have no neutrons left over. I do agree with you that completely other things are thinkable (zero-point, hydrino's,.. etc. the sky is the limit if you allow yourself to break the laws.). I still don't get why Widom-Larsen claim their theory is not fusion, they have more details about the reaction mechanism, right or wrong, the energy still comes from the lower binding energy that lesser&bigger nuclei have, aka fusion. Yes, "Cold Fusion" stinks but I have no problem getting over it, if it actually works. (if!) Cheers. On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Andre Blum <andre_vor...@blums.nl> wrote: > reply to list my earlier message as I sent this to Guenter only due to his > reply-to address > > > On 02/29/2012 09:04 PM, Andre Blum wrote: > > > Jones, I respect You, but here You are on the wrong track. > > This device is not intended to have any real-world-interfacing. > It is located in a virtual world with only indirect interfacing to the r-w > via USB. > > Look at olimexino and its relatives, how this is done. This is just 80MHz > compared to the fancy 800MHz, but the difference is, that You talk to the > 'world' (TM) with 80MHz, compared to 'Yourself ' (no TM) with 800MHz. > > So what is the difference, exactly? > > > The device *does* have real world interfacing. In fact it has plenty. It has > 2 i2c ports, SPI, UART, (not sure, but I believe also analog in), many > GPIO's. It does however only have "only" 26 pins that you have to find a > right muxing for to map them to your function. An arduino duemilanove has > about the same # pins. A beaglebone has more like 80 of them. > > Arduino-like devices are very nice, too, and cheap. And you are right that > you could use it just as well for controlling this kind of setups. Then, to > control the arduino, you would need a computer for the necessary 'human > interfacing'. > > With the idea in mind that people might actually want to have more than one > peerpressure setup (for example for Defkalion-like inert/loaded > comparisons), it is wise to have stand-alone controllers that can be managed > over a web interface and also optionally can contact the internet database > servers with their results on their own. Also, it is a matter of taste, but > in my eyes a big pro that you can program these ARM devices like you can > program your PC: use python, java, proper operating system calls, > multitasking, memory allocation, nice storage support, etc. > > > > > > > >
