The suggestion that they had exceeded Carnot likely prevented most of the physicists from accepting the data. After observing their reaction to LENR, it is not surprising to find that effects that operate outside of the current theories are completely ignored.
At least you can operate that ICE inside your closed environment and not die from carbon monoxide gas. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Wed, Feb 12, 2014 10:02 am Subject: RE: [Vo]:Nanoscale Heat Engine Beyond the Carnot Limit This is an interesting andpotentially important article, but to divulge a bit - “nano” is notrequired to exceed Carnot. Probably helps though. In fact, almost 50 yearsago, working for NASA on a project which was patented and then discontinued (gofigure) … Eugene Laumann exceeded the Carnot limitation at the manykilowatt level - with a hydrogen powered diesel. It was possibly OU given thelosses - but that claim was carefully avoided. The term “OU” wasnot even around then. This particular powersupply was intended for space (in a closed cycle with photoelectric watersplitting) - but NASA switched to AMTEC for weight reduction - and then ignoredthe ICE results for many years. After all, gasoline was below 50 cents a gallonso you cannot blame them. Several years ago Eugene Laumann,who was in his eighties and almost blind, provided copies of his papers anddata, some of which are not online at DTIC. The grand hope is to renew thatwork someday, in the context of LENR. He did these experiments using ultra-highcompression and an extremely lean fuel mix (all the fuel was H2 at well belowthe published flammability level). Laumann was yet another ofmany excellent but overlooked scientists who were way ahead of NASA in civilianrelevance - decades ago, who did experiments that would be called “groundbreaking”today… “fonly” (as they say) the USA was not now a debtornation, and also had the good sense to look though its own “cold case”files. BTW – for those whohave followed the overlap of LENR and CQM - the “lattice” (substitutefor a metal lattice) in this design, assuming that LENR may have been involved (whichis not proved or even claimed) - was provided by mostly argon atoms squeezed toseveral hundred bar at TDC… where their effective density was similar toa metal lattice. A lattice of extremely high mobility, shall we say? From: Roarty, Francis X Yet another perspective for the same anomalous environment? http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v112/i3/e030602 The researchers focuson an individual ion in a squeezed state unbalancing noise along 2 axis.Isn’t this what nano geometry accomplishes at a system level for bulk gasin what we often refer to as our NAE?
