Tom Andersen just sent me this new press release on hi-temp 'fractal' superconductivity -
"Room Temperature Superconductivity Found in Graphite Grains" Water-soaked grains of carbon superconduct at room temperature, claim a team of physicists from Germany http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429203/room-temperature-superconductivity-found-in/?ref=rss Their full preprint is available at - "Can doping graphite trigger room temperature superconductivity? Evidence for granular high-temperature superconductivity in water-treated graphite powder" http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.1938 For those interested in hi-temp super-/ballistic-conductivity, in fractal and colloidal conductors, here are some related papers by the same group, and two (possibly) related patents: "Length dependence of the resistance in graphite: Influence of ballistic transport" http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.3004 "Ballistic transport at room temperature in micrometer size multigraphene" http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.1100 "Ferromagnetic- and superconducting-like behavior of the electrical resistance of inhomogeneous graphite flake" http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3303 ======================================================================== US Patent Application 20080085834 - Superconductive circuits with efficient method The present invention relates to superconductors, superconductive circuits, and electrical superconductive processes. More specifically, this invention relates to high-temperature superconductors and electrical superconductive processes occurring near normal room or ambient temperatures [...] Researchers have recently discovered that the addition of certain nanoparticles less than 100 nanometers in size, when added to water, oil, or glycol mixtures, results in a nanofluid (a colloid with nanoparticles) that exhibits a substantial rise in thermal conductivity. In U.S. Pat. No. 6,221,275 (Choi, et al., 2001), a method is disclosed for producing nanocrystalline particles of such substances as copper, copper oxide, or aluminum oxide. The nanocrystalline particles are then dispersed in fluids such as [...] http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20080085834/description.html ======================================================================== United States Patent Application 20110233061 (Brian Ahern) - AMPLIFICATION OF ENERGETIC REACTIONS Methods and apparatus for energy production through the amplification of energetic reactions. A method includes amplifying an energy release from a dispersion of nanoparticles containing a concentration of hydrogen/deuterium nuclei, the nanoparticles suspended in a dielectric medium in a presence of hydrogen/deuterium gas, wherein an energy input is provided by high voltage pulses between two electrodes embedded in the dispersion of nanoparticles. [...] Energetic reactions described fully herein are amplified by an inverse skin effect. These very small discharge pathways are so narrow that the magnetic fields close to them are amplified to magnitudes unachievable by other methods. Distributing nanoparticles in a dielectric (ceramic) matrix between two high voltage electrodes is a method according to the principles of the present invention for amplifying an energy output from the hydrated/deuterated metal nanoparticles in the dielectric matrix. High voltage pulses cause arc formations. The arc formations focus energy and the arc formations are channeled from one macroscopic grain to another macroscopic grain. Once a discharge is interior to a macroscopic grain the pulse is further focused into nanoparticles along the lowest impedance pathway. The arcs interior to the grains are where the energetic reactions are maximized. The nanoparticles provide a constellation of short circuiting elements for each current pulse. Each succeeding pulse finds a different pathway that minimizes the impedance between two electrodes. An overpressure of hydrogen is needed to prevent discharges from sliding over a surface of the macroscopic grains rather than through the grains and thereby through the hydrated nanoparticles. Low pressure hydrogen gas favors surface discharging. Liquid dielectrics produce similar energy focusing capabilities as the ceramic matrices. Liquid systems provide a direct method for producing nanoparticles in situ. [...] http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2011/0233061.html ======================================================================== -- Lou Pagnucco
